ZANDERLAND - Lakes - Small and medium-sized lakes

 

Tampere Region - Finland

Lake Kankarinjärvi

Small and medium-sized lakes
 
Foto: Mikko Jussila
 
 
Many small and medium-sized lakes in the Tampere Region make for fascinating fishing sites. The most common game species are pike, perch and various cyprinids. On medium-sized lakes, you can catch big pike weighing as much as 10 kilos or more.

Dark and muddy lakes also have good stocks of zander. Well-known zander sites include Lake Nerkoonjärvi in Kihniö and Lake Rutajärvi in Urjala.
 
 
Lake Velaattajärvi
 
 
There are 14 lakes with a surface area of 5 to 16 km2 in the Tampere Region. These are home to pike, perch, burbot and various cyprinids.
 
Lake Size (km²) Municipality Other species
       
Nerkoonjärvi 15,4 Kihniö Zander
Rutajärvi 11,0 Urjala Zander
Uurasjärvi 9,1 Virrat Zander
Iso-Löytäne 9,0 Orivesi Whitefish
Seinäjärvi 8,8 Virrat Zander
Eräjärvi 8,4 Orivesi Zander, whitefish
Kankarinjärvi 7,0 Kihniö Zander
Mouhijärvi 7,0 Sastamala Zander
Pajulanjärvi 7,0 Kangasala Whitefish
Kuivasjärvi 6,5 Parkano Zander
Kurkijärvi 6,5 Mänttä-Vilppula Whitefish
Jalanti 6,5 Akaa Zander
Vermasjärvi 5,2 Virrat Zander
Kuhmajärvi 5,0 Kangasala Whitefish
       
 
Lake Nerkoonjärvi
 
 
The region has more than a hundred lakes with a surface area of 1 to 5 km2. The rest of the region’s more than 2,000 lakes are less than 1 km2, the majority of these being small lakes and ponds of less than 10 hectares.
 
 
Lake Pukalajärvi