Billings Lake is a lake in Connecticut, near Southeastern Connecticut County.
Stocking records show that the following fish or strains were stocked here. A historical stocking does not by itself prove that a self-sustaining population remains today.
Billings Lake covers 97 acres in the Southeastern Connecticut region. The verified maximum depth at Billings Lake is 33 feet.
The verified 33-foot maximum gives Billings Lake enough depth for fish to move away from the bank without turning the lake into a purely open-water fishery.
Fish reported from Billings Lake include alewife, american eel, black crappie, bluegill, brown bullhead, chain pickerel, channel catfish, common carp, golden shiner, largemouth bass, longear sunfish, smallmouth bass, white perch, and yellow perch. Brook trout, brown trout, and rainbow trout are listed separately as stocked in Billings Lake. The stocking entry is a management record for Billings Lake, not a promise that those fish will be present at every spot or on every trip.
Begin the largemouth search on Billings Lake with a moving bait, then pick apart wood or weeds with a worm. Rocky points on Billings Lake suit a grub, tube or compact crankbait when smallmouth are the target.
A soft-plastic minnow or live minnow placed beside cover is a sound crappie approach on Billings Lake. For sunfish on Billings Lake, keep a cricket or tiny jig close to weed edges and shaded wood. For Billings Lake yellow perch, work a light jig slowly along the first firm-bottom break.
Chain pickerel in Billings Lake can be found with spoons, spinnerbaits and small swimbaits along vegetation.
Compare firm bottom with the nearest vegetation or wood on Billings Lake. Then compare vegetation, shaded shoreline and firm-bottom changes around Billings Lake before searching open water.
A sunny spring afternoon can pull Billings Lake fish toward dark bottom, wood and new vegetation. Summer fish in Billings Lake may feed shallow at dawn before settling beside cover or deeper structure. Cooling water can bring Billings Lake fish back to points and banks where bait gathers.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.