Taggart Lake Fishing Guide, Kenora District, Ontario

• Overview

  In Ontario, Taggart Lake falls inside Kenora District. Beyond the shoreline you have lake country bush. Roughly 2.80 sq km of surface: treat each bay as a water in its own right. The outline measures near 17 km, so local knowledge counts. You are 37 km from Dryden. Thunder Bay sits 303 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Taggart Lake

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Survey and observation records for Kenora District include northern pike, longnose sucker, white sucker and johnny darter. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. At Taggart Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 18°C, while January sits near -18°C. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. Ice is part of the season here, ending near late April. Climate averages put the opening at about late April and the closing near mid November. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. Plan around that when you fish Taggart Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Provincial rules still apply whatever the bank status. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. For a change of water, Little Tag Lake is 2.3 km distant. Nothing on Taggart Lake should be assumed from this page alone.