Curtis Lake

Curtis Lake is a Wisconsin lake located in Waushara County with the latest inventory showing about 35 acres and a maximum depth of 41 feet, so you know roughly what you are getting into before loading the boat or walking the bank.

The first things worth knowing

I would start broad, then slow down once something starts making sense by spending the early part of the day on shoreline cover, weed edges, and the first clean drop away from the bank before changing five things at once and losing track of what actually mattered.

What the current record shows

The species currently tied to Curtis Lake include Black Crappie, Bluegill, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Pumpkinseed, and Yellow Perch; so I would spend the first serious effort on weeds, wood, rock, or docks for bass and weeds and easy cover for panfish, and stay flexible if the water tells me something else.

How I would fish it

For somebody fishing Curtis Lake for the first time, I would fish what is in front of me instead of trying to make the lake match an old report, and I would pull up the current Wisconsin fishing regulations before leaving home.