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Best splake lakes in New York

10 New York waters hold splake, 10 mapped with real state-agency depth surveys. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — 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.

1. Woodhull Lake — 80 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Splake
2. Lake Ozonia — 50 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brown Trout, Splake
3. St. Regis Pond — 30 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Splake, Pumpkinseed
4. Limekiln Lake — 70 ft max · survey depth data · Splake
5. West Caroga Lake — 70 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Landlocked Salmon
6. Long Pond — 70 ft max · survey depth data · Splake, Brown Bullhead
7. Salmon Lake — 50 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Splake, Pumpkinseed, Brown Bullhead
8. Connery Pond — 55 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Brown Trout, Splake, Pumpkinseed
9. Green Pond — 69 ft max · survey depth data · Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Brown Trout, Landlocked Salmon
10. Clear Pond — 63 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Splake

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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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