Wall Lake is a reservoir in New Mexico, near Catron County.
Wall Lake is a reservoir in Catron County, New Mexico, and covers about 19.3 acres, reaches about 8.4 feet at its deepest point and holds roughly 188 acre-feet.
The small size of Wall Lake makes quiet casts and short moves more useful than carrying a pile of tackle. With little deep water in Wall Lake, weeds, wind, and water color can matter more than depth alone.
Fish listed for Wall Lake include Bluegill, Channel Catfish, and Green Sunfish.
A useful bluegill plan on Wall Lake is to use a small jig, worm, or tiny plastic around green weeds and protected pockets.
To begin with channel catfish on Wall Lake, fish cut bait or a nightcrawler on the bottom along a channel edge or warm flat.
One way to read Wall Lake is this: 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.
Before moving far on Wall 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.
A focused trip to Wall 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.
For a short trip to Wall 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.