Tenfish Lake Fishing Guide, Algoma, Ontario

• Overview

  Tenfish Lake is an Algoma water, Ontario side. Around the bank it is lake country bush. It runs to roughly 93 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. With about 4.6 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. It ranks high for size among our Algoma listings. Elliot Lake lies 31 km from the water. Then Blind River, 54 km, and Thessalon, 75 km. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Tenfish Lake

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Reported across Algoma: walleye, northern pike, Iowa darter and yellow perch. The list covers the county rather than this water alone, so treat it as a guide. Fish Tenfish Lake where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -12°C to 18°C. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Break-up comes around late April, and the run that follows is short and strong. From about late April to around late November, expect open water on the long-run figures. June through September is the settled part of the year, with the shoulders busier for fish. Tenfish Lake runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. There is no recorded infrastructure here; expect to find your own way in. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. Blue Sky Lake sits 0.9 km off and takes the overflow. Nothing here settles the position at Tenfish Lake for certain.