South Rolly Lake Fishing Guide, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska

• Overview

  Look for South Rolly Lake in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska. Elevation runs to 197 feet. With some 109 acres of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. The bank runs about 2.1 miles all the way round, so one visit can cover most of it. Willow lies 6.2 miles from the water. The big place round here is Anchorage, 32 miles distant. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on South Rolly Lake

  Depth figures are not published for this one. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Matanuska-Susitna Borough records list rainbow trout, Coho salmon, sockeye salmon and longnose sucker among the fish reported. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Fish South Rolly Lake to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between January at about 7°F and July at about 59°F, the water has a wide range to work through. The year splits cleanly: hard water, then open water. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near late April. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly early November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Expect South Rolly Lake to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Records list it as a fishing water. A ramp is mapped within half a mile. The nearest car park is half a mile from the water. There is a campsite half a mile from the water. Public toilets are recorded roughly half a mile off. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. For a change of water, Rolly Twin Lakes is 0.4 miles distant.