Lake Temagami Ice Fishing

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February 22nd, 2022, 12:39 PM
lakermike

Lake Temagami Ice Fishing

Hey! New to the forum, thanks for the ad!

A few buddies and I have a sleeper hut rented on Lake Temagami this coming weekend and we were looking for some tips/tricks. We are all avid ice fishermen with experience on Lake Simcoe, Bay of Quinte and Lake Eerie. We have sleds to travel around, portable Huts, fish finders, navionics and enough gear to fill a pickup.

We're looking to target Lakers, Walleye and whites. I'm not looking for your GPS spots, more so looking for some info on what lures/colors seem to be hot lately? What depths to target and what type of structure to look for? Should we be fishing flats or points? Tops or bottoms of drop offs? Really any info you're willing to give up that might help us be successful would be much appreciated.

I've been told white tubes and spoons for Lakers a couple feet off bottom in the 30 to 60ft range. Also was told top of drop offs, 20 to 30fow for walleye with a lively minnow on a jig head 3/8 or smaller. I know smaller minnows on spreaders on a tip up are typically good for whitefish.

Any info you can add would be much appreciated, if you prefer to private message me that's fine too.

Also would consider paying someone cash to guide us for a few hours thrusday afternoon or Friday if you've been doing well lately. We have our own snowmobiles and portable huts/heaters/fishfinders.

Thanks in advance, tight lines!!
February 22nd, 2022, 06:06 PM
Woodsman

Not sure on current conditions but deep slush can be an issue up there.
Some of the inland small lakes can give out great opportunities.
February 23rd, 2022, 07:49 PM
cramadog2

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Originally Posted by Woodsman

Not sure on current conditions but deep slush can be an issue up there.
Some of the inland small lakes can give out great opportunities.

2 weeks ago my friend and his brother were on Net Lake and they burned a belt on their sled from the slush. Of course they didn't have a spare and had to drive to Powassan to get another. Be careful.
February 23rd, 2022, 08:23 PM
Woodsman

Net Lake gets some local fishing pressure.
Not much from outsiders.
But I was referring to much smaller inland lakes.
Speck and rainbow lakes.
February 23rd, 2022, 08:32 PM
cramadog2

Yeah they have a camp on Net. They went for the opening of trout, but it doesn't sound like they got much fishing done. They've had good luck in the past there.

He wanted me to go with him that weekend, but I had too much wood to cut. My wood shed for my sap shanty got hit pretty bad by 2 uprooted hard maples in that December 11th wind storm. That was my project for that weekend
February 23rd, 2022, 09:57 PM
Species8472

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Originally Posted by cramadog2

2 weeks ago my friend and his brother were on Net Lake and they burned a belt on their sled from the slush. Of course they didn't have a spare and had to drive to Powassan to get another. Be careful.

Must have been a "Doo" as the only parts place in Powassan is Giesler's. Mark is good people. I always have a spare with me.
February 24th, 2022, 03:03 PM
moosehead033

We spent 5 days in the southarm of lake temagami.......pickerel were caught before sunrise/.sunset 22 to 28 FOW.......lively minnow on small chartreuse jig as well as a glow rapala jig were the setup of choice.......On Lakers we used a camera down 60- 73 FOW to see their behavior and found they were hitting the jig tipped with a minnow directly on the bottom more often.......did catch a few lakers deadsticking a few feet off the bottom.... No luck with whitefish. Best of Luck.
March 2nd, 2022, 05:54 PM
Woodsman

I'm heading up there 11-14 Mar.
Will report when back.