Lodge Pool in Westchester County: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Set in Westchester County, New York, this is Lodge Pool. Around the bank it is farm and woodlot. This is a tiny water, and one quiet approach covers all of it. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Westchester County. For supplies, Briarcliff Manor is 0.9 miles out. The nearest city of size is Yonkers, 16 miles away. The county edge is within a short distance of the bank.

• Where to Fish on Lodge Pool

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Public occurrence data for Westchester County names common carp, striped bass, bluegill and brown trout. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. Lodge Pool gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 74°F on average, January about 29°F. The freeze here is occasional rather than annual. It should never be assumed safe, whatever the month says. Autumn steadies things again once the heat lets go. The season on Lodge Pool rarely departs from it. Sudden cold puts fish down faster than sustained cold does.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. Parking is close: a car park sits half a mile from the bank. Facilities run to toilets half a mile from the water. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Ossining Reservoir, 0.9 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Lodge Pool in what we hold.