New City Lake is a reservoir in Tennessee, near Dickson 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.
New City Lake sits in Dickson County and is classified as a reservoir; I would pick one short piece of water as the first section and keep fishing it until I get a useful answer from the first setup. For the opening part of the day, I would keep working one nearby piece of water until I get a clear read from the first setup, because moving constantly makes a lake harder to read.
New City Lake does not have a dependable set of published size and depth measurements, so I would wait until a verified bathymetric map supports the measurement before trusting a number and stay around one manageable section of bank until I find a repeatable bite in the first area.
Public fish information tied specifically to New City Lake is sparse, so I would start with a light spinning setup with a soft plastic and live-bait option around one easy-to-read section of bank and avoid specializing until I get a useful answer from the first area. The first trip to New City Lake is easier to read when the tackle stays simple around one promising shoreline stretch, at least until I see enough in the first few casts.
If I were seeing New City Lake for the first time, I would work one straightforward shoreline stretch with only a few dependable baits and make the simplest change first after I learn something from the first few casts. If I see a pattern develop in the first few casts, I would stay around one sheltered shoreline stretch on New City Lake and use that clue on the next similar stretch. After I get a useful answer from the first hour, I would leave New City Lake knowing that one sheltered section of water deserves another look before I start searching somewhere else.
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