Wyassup 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.
Wyassup Lake covers 99 acres in the Southeastern Connecticut region. The verified maximum depth at Wyassup Lake is 28 feet.
The verified 28-foot maximum gives Wyassup Lake enough depth for fish to move away from the bank without turning the lake into a purely open-water fishery.
Fish reported from Wyassup Lake include alewife, american eel, banded killifish, black crappie, bluegill, brown bullhead, chain pickerel, channel catfish, common carp, golden shiner, largemouth bass, longear sunfish, redbreast sunfish, smallmouth bass, swamp darter, tessellated darter, white catfish, white sucker, and yellow perch. Brown trout and rainbow trout are listed separately as stocked in Wyassup Lake. The stocking entry is a management record for Wyassup Lake, not a promise that those fish will be present at every spot or on every trip.
A spinnerbait, square-bill and Texas rig cover the most useful largemouth situations on Wyassup Lake. Rocky points on Wyassup 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 Wyassup Lake. For sunfish on Wyassup Lake, keep a cricket or tiny jig close to weed edges and shaded wood. For Wyassup Lake yellow perch, work a light jig slowly along the first firm-bottom break.
A spoon or compact swimbait worked beside weeds is a practical chain pickerel choice on Wyassup Lake.
Compare firm bottom with the nearest vegetation or wood on Wyassup Lake. Then compare vegetation, shaded shoreline and firm-bottom changes around Wyassup Lake before searching open water.
A sunny spring afternoon can pull Wyassup Lake fish toward dark bottom, wood and new vegetation. Summer fish in Wyassup Lake may feed shallow at dawn before settling beside cover or deeper structure. Cooling water can bring Wyassup Lake fish back to points and banks where bait gathers.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.