Tamarack Lake in Iron County: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Iron County, Wisconsin, is where Tamarack Lake sits. Elevation runs to 1,601 feet. It covers about 14 acres, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. On size it sits at the modest end of our Iron County list. The nearest town is Lac du Flambeau, 15 miles away. For a city, Green Bay is 150 miles off. The boundary is close enough to be worth checking before you fish.

• Where to Fish on Tamarack Lake

  Our records hold no depth for this water. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Iron County list walleye, northern pike, yellow perch, muskellunge and rainbow trout. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. At Tamarack Lake light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about 10°F in January to roughly 65°F in July. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Ice is part of the season here, ending near mid April. The water is typically free of ice between mid April and late November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. On Tamarack Lake the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Judd Lake, 0.3 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Tamarack Lake as something to verify.