Best splake lakes in New York
13 New York waters list splake (official records or labelled estimates), 13 mapped with survey or official-chart depth data. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality, leading with the waters in our reviewed search catalog — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. Stocked brook × lake trout hybrid — the Shield-lake specialty that splits the difference: shallower than lakers, deeper than brookies, and a superb ice bite.
- Woodhull Lake — 80 ft max · real survey depth contours · Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout, SplakeWhy #1: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
- Lake Ozonia — 50 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Brown TroutWhy #2: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
- St. Regis Pond — 30 ft max · real survey depth contours · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Splake, PumpkinseedWhy #3: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Limekiln Lake — 70 ft max · real survey depth contours · SplakeWhy #4: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- West Caroga Lake — 70 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Landlocked SalmonWhy #5: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Long Pond — 70 ft max · real survey depth contours · Splake, Brown BullheadWhy #6: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
- Salmon Lake — 50 ft max · real survey depth contours · Yellow Perch, Landlocked Salmon, Splake, PumpkinseedWhy #7: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Meacham Lake — 65 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Brown TroutWhy #8: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Green Pond — 69 ft max · real survey depth contours · Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Brown Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #9: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Clear Pond — 63 ft max · real survey depth contours · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, KokaneeWhy #10: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
- Thirteenth Lake — 40 ft max · real survey depth contours · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout, SplakeWhy #11: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
- Connery Pond — 55 ft max · real survey depth contours · Yellow Perch, Brown Trout, Splake, PumpkinseedWhy #12: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Stillwater Pond — 32 ft max · real survey depth contours · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout, SplakeWhy #13: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
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How to use this ranking
The order is a map-planning ranking, not a claim about today's fish population. It favors larger mapped waters and gives survey-backed contours a three-times data-quality boost. Agency population surveys, current regulations, access and recent conditions should make the final decision.
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When to fish splake in New York
- Spring 5–25 ft — Ice-out through spring, splake patrol shoreline rock, points and inflows like oversized brookies.
- Summer 25–60 ft — Warm water pushes splake below the thermocline — deep breaks and humps, shallower than lakers in the same lake.
- Fall 10–35 ft — Mostly sterile but still hormone-driven — fall splake stage on rock shoals and points and eat aggressively.
- Winter 10–45 ft — Why they're stocked: an active, roaming winter predator — work basin edges and mid-depth humps, and hole-hop.
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