McCarthy Lake is a lake in Wisconsin, near Lincoln County.
McCarthy Lake sits in Lincoln County and is listed as a lake and the best current size-and-depth record is about 13 acres and a maximum depth of 10 feet, so you can get the scale of the place before you ever make a cast.
| County | Lincoln County, WI |
|---|---|
| Water type | Lake |
| Surface area | 13 acres |
| Maximum depth | 10 feet |
| Recorded fish | 2 |
On a first visit, I would make a short list of places to try by giving the best bank cover, any obvious weeds, and the deepest water I can reach more than a couple of throwaway casts before I started running around looking for something better.
The current inventory lists Largemouth Bass, and Northern Pike for McCarthy Lake; and that is enough to put some time into weeds, wood, rock, or docks for bass and weed lines and baitfish areas for pike or musky, and then let the actual bites decide what comes next.
If I wanted to learn McCarthy Lake without overdoing it, I would make a short plan, fish it honestly, and change areas only when the water gives me a reason, and I would still look at the current Wisconsin regulations before fishing.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.