Cisco Lakes in Ontario

Government fish surveys have recorded cisco in 514 Ontario lakes, 22% of the 2,365 lakes in this atlas with sport-fish records.

Lakes: 514
Recorded since 2010: 366
Median size: 10.9 km²
Median max depth: 27 m
Latest record: 2024

Where cisco is most consistently recorded

Ranked by consistency: the lower bound of a 95% confidence interval on the share of the lake’s surveys that found it. A lake where 18 of 20 surveys found it ranks above one where 1 of 1 did. Lakes known only from stocking come last.

#	Lake	Surveys	Last record	Max depth m	Area km²
1	Frederick House LakeCochrane	29 of 31	2011	15	38.7
2	Kesagami LakeCochrane	41 of 45	2012	4	175
3	Nagagami LakeAlgoma	41 of 45	2011	27	54
4	Lac des Mille LacsThunder Bay	91 of 105	2013	27	245
5	Waterloo LakeRenfrew	12 of 12	2015	21	1.85
6	Dog LakeAlgoma	31 of 36	2011	69	53.3
7	Savanne LakeThunder Bay	14 of 15	2011	4	3.67
8	Rugby LakeKenora	21 of 24	2010	8	10.2
9	Hungry LakeFrontenac	8 of 8	2013	32	2.71
10	Island LakeTimiskaming	21 of 25	2013	21	0.31
11	Rome LakeSudbury	31 of 39	2013	12	2.33
12	Kwinkwaga LakeAlgoma	24 of 30	2011	37	9.02
13	North Spirit LakeKenora	29 of 38	2011	30	66.8
14	Sandy LakeKenora	58 of 82	2011	15	484
15	Mold LakeKenora	12 of 14	2009		0.47
16	Windigo LakeKenora	17 of 21	2011		80.2
17	Wintering LakeThunder Bay	28 of 37	2012	27	17.5
18	Coli LakeKenora	19 of 24	2009	9	21.2
19	Clay LakeKenora	23 of 30	2009		27.8
20	Winisk LakeKenora	44 of 62	2011		258
21	Montreuil LakeCochrane	16 of 20	2010	21	4.99
22	Little Metionga LakeThunder Bay	18 of 23	2008		6.84
23	Crooked Pine LakeRainy River	22 of 29	2010	15	17.3
24	Shack LakeTimiskaming	25 of 34	2013	12	1.65
25	Net LakeNipissing	24 of 33	2014	43	7.9
26	Bury LakeKenora	16 of 21	2009	16	4.75
27	Webster LakeThunder Bay	12 of 15	2014		6.86
28	Nikip LakeKenora	23 of 32	2012	5	54.3
29	Carmen LakeTimiskaming	19 of 26	2014	11	0.21
30	Amik LakeKenora	19 of 26	2009	18	11.7
31	Makobe LakeTimiskaming	47 of 72	2014	21	20.3
32	Jeanette LakeKenora	22 of 31	2009	12	16
33	Joyce LakeKenora	15 of 20	2013	6	14.7
34	Pakwash LakeKenora	23 of 33	2009	15	86.8
35	Wapesi LakeKenora	18 of 25	2009	9	23.7
36	Thaddeus LakeKenora	11 of 14	2009		15.7
37	Edward LakeKenora	9 of 11	2010	6	5.59
38	Birch LakeKenora	30 of 45	2009	36	117
39	Shrub LakeKenora	19 of 27	2010		5.56
40	Kishkebus LakeFrontenac	4 of 4	2014	27	0.87
41	Cassels LakeNipissing	37 of 58	2014	31	7.54
42	Holinshead LakeThunder Bay	43 of 69	2013	15	20
43	Night Hawk LakeCochrane	27 of 42	2011	5	109
44	Steep Rock LakeRainy River	16 of 23	2011	14	6.28
45	Malachi LakeKenora	16 of 23	2010	18	10.6
46	Arrow LakeThunder Bay	24 of 37	2013	49	32.5
47	Expanse LakeKenora	17 of 25	2009		8.66
48	Kawaweogama LakeThunder Bay	21 of 32	2008	12	35.8
49	Beaverhouse LakeRainy River	26 of 41	2010	64	19.7
50	Mattawa LakeKenora	18 of 27	2009		17.8

Top 50 of 514 lakes. Download the full list (CSV). Source: Ontario’s Aquatic Resource Area survey summaries and fish stocking records (Ministry of Natural Resources, OGL-Ontario). Data as of October 9, 2026. A record means a survey caught or observed the species, not that it is abundant today.

Cisco Lakes in Ontario

Where it is found

Where cisco is most consistently recorded

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