Echo Lake Fishing near Wurtsboro, New York

• Overview

  This water sits in Sullivan County, New York. It sits at 587 feet above sea level. This is a pocket water of some 8 acres, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. Our Sullivan County list holds plenty of bigger water. Some 4.7 miles away sits Wurtsboro, the nearest settlement. Pine Bush follows at 5.3 miles, then Watchtower at 7.7 miles. A county boundary sits nearby, which can matter for local access rules.

• Where to Fish on Echo Lake

  Open data we checked carries no depth for this water. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Fish documented in Sullivan County include brown trout, brook trout and smallmouth bass. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Read Echo Lake for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 71°F and January reads 24°F. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late March. Climate figures give an open season running late March to late December. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Plan any trip to Echo Lake around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. A pier 40 yards from here gives a platform over deeper water. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Fishing rules and camping rules are set separately here. Beaverman Lake, 0.2 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. For Echo Lake in particular, ask before you travel.