Bonner Lake is a lake in New Mexico, near De Baca County.
Bonner Lake is a lake in De Baca County, New Mexico, and covers about 90.2 acres, reaches about 16.1 feet at its deepest point and holds roughly 809.5 acre-feet.
Bonner Lake can be broken down in a few passes: shallow cover, the first break, and the deepest useful water.
Fish listed for Bonner Lake include Green Sunfish.
For the next pass on Bonner Lake, start where two things meet: weeds and open water, rock and mud, a point and a drop, or clear water and stained water; fish that edge at more than one depth before leaving it.
While learning Bonner Lake, in spring, start with warming banks, creek mouths, and shallow cover; summer usually pushes the better bite toward the outside weed edge or a nearby drop; fall can bring bait back to windblown points, while winter calls for smaller moves and a slower pace.
A focused trip to Bonner Lake begins this way: a medium spinning rod, 8-pound line, a small box of jigs, a few crankbaits, and a simple bottom rig cover most situations; change depth or speed before changing every piece of tackle.
Before changing spots on Bonner Lake, record the wind, water color, productive depth, and cover after a bite; those four notes are more useful on the next trip than a long list of spots that did not produce.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.