Cherry Lake is a lake in New Mexico, near Lincoln County.
Cherry Lake is a lake in Lincoln County, New Mexico, and covers about 0.5 acres, reaches about 2.3 feet at its deepest point and holds roughly 0.6 acre-feet.
Cherry Lake is small water, so a careful lap around the bank can show most of the useful cover. With little deep water in Cherry Lake, weeds, wind, and water color can matter more than depth alone.
Fish listed for Cherry Lake include Green Sunfish.
During the first hour on Cherry Lake, start where two things meet: weeds and open water, rock and mud, a point and a drop, or clear water and dirty water; fish that edge at more than one depth before leaving it.
To begin fishing Cherry Lake, early in the year, protected water and the first warm afternoon can be the best clues; as the water heats up, check deeper edges without assuming every fish is on the bottom; cooling fall water often makes points and firm banks useful again.
When choosing a bank on Cherry Lake, 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.
A direct approach on Cherry Lake works like this: 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.