Kenogami Lake

Where Kenogami Lake is

Kenogami Lake lies in the District of Timiskaming.

How deep is Kenogami Lake?

Kenogami Lake reaches a maximum recorded depth of 8.1 meters, determined from 55,285 soundings.

Surveyed Depths

Ontario has surveyed the depths of several thousand of its lakes over more than half a century. Later surveys were conducted by boat with satellite positioning and produced hundreds of thousands of soundings per lake. Earlier surveys were charted by running transects across the water and drawing depth contours by hand.

Water quality

Ontario’s Lake Partner Program is a volunteer monitoring network. Participants collect a water sample each spring for phosphorus analysis and measure water clarity through the summer with a Secchi disk.

Phosphorus is the nutrient that controls how much algae a lake can grow. A lake with little phosphorus stays clear and supports cold-water fish such as lake trout. As phosphorus rises, algae increase, the water clouds, and oxygen in the deep water falls as the algae decay. The province classifies each monitoring site by its spring phosphorus. Below 10 micrograms per litre is oligotrophic: clear water and low algae. From 10 to 20 is mesotrophic: moderately productive water, with more algae and weed growth than an oligotrophic lake but rarely a bloom. Above 20 is eutrophic: nutrient-rich water, prone to algal blooms and low oxygen at depth.

A Secchi disk is a 20 centimeter white or black-and-white plate lowered on a marked line until it disappears from view. The depth at which it vanishes is the Secchi depth, a direct measure of water clarity. Clearer water gives a deeper reading.

Kenogami Lake has 7 Lake Partner monitoring sites. Five have reported phosphorus for the three or more years the province requires before a status is assigned. All are classified mesotrophic.

The longest record is held by site 2295/1 at N end, deep spot, sampled over 7 springs to 2024. Its long-term mean phosphorus concentration is 15.13 micrograms per litre, within the mesotrophic band, which runs from 10 to 20. The site’s 3 clarity readings give a median Secchi depth of 1.5 meters.

Fish in Kenogami Lake

Ontario’s aquatic resource records name 8 fish species in Kenogami Lake. The province classes the lake as cool water. The record took effect on 17 January 2018, and it compiles what field biologists had reported by then.

Seven of the eight species in the province’s records

• Brook Trouttrout and whitefish
• Lake Whitefishtrout and whitefish
• Ciscotrout and whitefish
• Northern Pikepike
• Walleyeperch
• Smallmouth Basssunfish
• Burbotcod

Spawning areas

Ontario maps 1 fish spawning record within the Kenogami Lake outline: 1 walleye spawning area covering 0.75 hectares. Every record is recorded as verified and presently suitable, and none is classed as sensitive.

By number of records

By area mapped

• Walleye1 area0.8 ha

The federal Fisheries Act prohibits the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of fish habitat without an authorization, so a dock, dredging, infill or shoreline work at a mapped spawning area is reviewed on that basis.

Stocking history

Ontario’s stocking records for Kenogami Lake run from 1947 to 1954 and hold 5 releases. Walleye account for most of the fish: 675,000 released in four of the years between 1947 and 1954. The last recorded release was 75,000 walleye eggs in 1954.

The province’s current stocking programme, recorded from 2016, lists no release into Kenogami Lake.

Eating the fish

The 2025 Guide to Eating Ontario Fish carries consumption advice for two species taken from Kenogami Lake, tested for contaminants at a sampling location in Grenfell & Eby Twps., Timiskaming Dist. Each figure below is the most meals a month the guide advises for a fish of that length. The advice falls as the fish gets longer, because mercury accumulates over a fish’s life. A zero means the guide advises no meals of that fish at that size.

General population adultsSensitive population children under fifteen, women who are or may become pregnant

Fisheries Management Zone 8

Kenogami Lake lies in Fisheries Management Zone 8. Ontario sets its fishing seasons and catch limits by zone.

The figures are the number of fish an angler may catch and keep in a day and have in possession, under a sport fishing licence and under a conservation licence. The rows are the whole zone’s, and they apply to every lake in it. No waterbody exception names Kenogami Lake.

Islands and names

Kenogami Lake contains 14 islands in the Ontario Hydro Network’s outline, zero of them over 10 hectares and thirteen under a tenth of a hectare.

Nearby lakes

• Sesekinika Lake8 km away
• Watabeag Lake27 km away
• Mistinikon Lake40 km away
• Larder Lake44 km away

All lakes

Questions about Kenogami Lake

• How deep is Kenogami Lake?

  Its maximum recorded depth is 8.1 meters.

• How big is Kenogami Lake?

  Its surface covers 8.6 square kilometers and it holds 14 islands. Of its 33 kilometers of shoreline, 30 kilometers is the mainland shore and 3 kilometers is the shore of the islands.

• What fish are in Kenogami Lake?

  Ontario’s aquatic resource records name eight species, among them walleye, smallmouth bass, northern pike, lake whitefish and brook trout.

• Is the water clear?

  All five monitoring sites with a phosphorus status are classified mesotrophic, the middle of the province’s three bands.