Fishing Tanamakoon Lake in Nipissing District, Ontario

• Overview

  You will find Tanamakoon Lake in Nipissing District, Ontario. Land around it is lake country bush. At 1.06 sq km this is proper open water rather than a pond. The margin runs to about 8.0 km in total. Few waters listed in Nipissing District are bigger. United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde lies 41 km from the water. Further out sit Huntsville (52 km) and Haliburton Village (56 km). There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Tanamakoon Lake

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Across Nipissing District, recorded fish include smallmouth bass, cisco, yellow perch and pumpkinseed. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. On Tanamakoon Lake the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 18°C for July and -12°C for January. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Break-up comes around late April, and the run that follows is short and strong. Average temperatures cross freezing around late April in spring and again near late November in autumn. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. Plan any trip to Tanamakoon Lake around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Mapping shows a jetty some 240 m off. There is camping recorded roughly 140 m off. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Should this one be busy, Found Lake is 1.3 km off. Where Tanamakoon Lake is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.