Hundred Mile Lake Fishing in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska

• Overview

  Look for Hundred Mile Lake in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough part of Alaska. Salt water lies 37 miles off. At about 27 acres, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. Roughly 1.0 miles of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. Our Matanuska-Susitna Borough list holds plenty of bigger water. The town to know is Sutton-Alpine, 35 miles out. Further out sit Lazy Mountain (38 miles) and Butte (43 miles). No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Hundred Mile Lake

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Records held for Matanuska-Susitna Borough cover rainbow trout, Coho salmon, sockeye salmon and longnose sucker. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. At Hundred Mile Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 51°F and January at 8°F. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. Ice-out usually falls in mid May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Open water usually runs from mid May until about late October. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. Plan around that when you fish Hundred Mile Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. The nearest mapped parking is half a mile away, so the last stretch is on foot. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. The nearest alternative is Bench Lake, 3.4 miles out. Check the position on Hundred Mile Lake before loading the car.