Lake Nippenicket

Lake Nippenicket covers 220 acres in Plymouth County. The recorded maximum depth at Lake Nippenicket is 13 feet.

What to Expect at Lake Nippenicket

The verified 13-foot maximum gives Lake Nippenicket enough depth for fish to move away from the bank without turning the lake into a purely open-water fishery.

Fish and Useful Baits at Lake Nippenicket

Fish reported from Lake Nippenicket include black crappie, bluegill, brown bullhead, chain pickerel, golden shiner, largemouth bass, pumpkinseed, white perch, white sucker, and yellow perch.

Bass

Largemouth bass in Lake Nippenicket can be searched with a spinnerbait before a Texas-rigged worm is worked through the best cover.

Crappie, Perch and Sunfish

A soft-plastic minnow or live minnow placed beside cover is a sound crappie approach on Lake Nippenicket. For sunfish on Lake Nippenicket, keep a cricket or tiny jig close to weed edges and shaded wood. For Lake Nippenicket yellow perch, work a light jig slowly along the first firm-bottom break.

Walleye and Larger Predators

Chain pickerel in Lake Nippenicket can be found with spoons, spinnerbaits and small swimbaits along vegetation.

A Simple Fishing Plan for Lake Nippenicket

Start with the clearest repeatable contour or cover edge on Lake Nippenicket. Compare vegetation, shade and firm-bottom changes around Lake Nippenicket before searching open water.

When to Fish Lake Nippenicket

A sunny spring afternoon can pull Lake Nippenicket fish toward dark bottom, wood and new vegetation. Summer fish in Lake Nippenicket may feed shallow at dawn before settling beside cover or deeper structure. Cooling water can bring Lake Nippenicket fish back to points and banks where bait gathers.