Pickerel Lake is a lake in Connecticut, near Southeastern Connecticut County.
Pickerel Lake covers 82 acres in the Southeastern Connecticut region. The verified maximum depth at Pickerel Lake is 10 feet.
With 82 acres and only 10 feet of maximum depth, Pickerel Lake is a broad, shallow fishery where wind, weeds and small bottom changes can matter more than offshore depth.
Fish reported from Pickerel Lake include american eel, black crappie, bluegill, brown bullhead, chain pickerel, channel catfish, common carp, golden shiner, largemouth bass, longear sunfish, smallmouth bass, white catfish, and yellow perch.
Largemouth bass in Pickerel Lake can be searched with a spinnerbait before a Texas-rigged worm is worked through the best cover. For smallmouth bass on Pickerel Lake, keep a bottom-contact bait ready for points and channel edges.
Slow vertical presentations around wood and suspended cover are dependable for Pickerel Lake crappie. Bluegill and other sunfish in Pickerel Lake take worms, crickets and tiny jigs along shade and vegetation. Keep a small jig, minnow or worm close to the bottom when perch are the target on Pickerel Lake.
Chain pickerel in Pickerel Lake can be found with spoons, spinnerbaits and small swimbaits along vegetation.
Fish one shoreline slowly before crossing the water on Pickerel Lake. Then compare vegetation, shaded shoreline and firm-bottom changes around Pickerel Lake before searching open water.
A sunny spring afternoon can pull Pickerel Lake fish toward dark bottom, wood and new vegetation. Summer fish in Pickerel Lake may feed shallow at dawn before settling beside cover or deeper structure. Cooling water can bring Pickerel Lake fish back to points and banks where bait gathers.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.
Source dates describe the evidence, not a live catch forecast. Check the managing authority before planning access or keeping fish.
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This is not a record catch or a measure of how many fish are there today. The source may describe an earlier period.
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This is not a record catch or a measure of how many fish are there today. The source may describe an earlier period.
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This is not a record catch or a measure of how many fish are there today. The source may describe an earlier period.
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This is not a record catch or a measure of how many fish are there today. The source may describe an earlier period.
The linked source supports this fish’s presence or stocking in this water.
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This is not a record catch or a measure of how many fish are there today. The source may describe an earlier period.