Pink Pond Fishing near Tupper Lake, New York

• Overview

  Pink Pond lies in Franklin County, New York. Elevation runs to 1,594 feet. At 14 acres it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. The town to know is Tupper Lake, 9.2 miles out. Ville-Marie is the closest city, 89 miles away. Within easy reach: Otter Pond a shade over 0.7 miles, Ledge Pond within 0.8 miles, Dry Channel Pond a shade over 0.9 miles, Long Pond within 0.9 miles and East Pine Pond a shade over 0.9 miles. No boundary runs near, so the county rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Pink Pond

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. 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 Franklin County names brook trout, white sucker and brown trout. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. Fish Pink Pond to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs 13°F to 65°F. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. The lid usually goes in mid April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Break-up sits around mid April on average, with the water closing again about early December. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. The season on Pink Pond rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. A carry of half a mile from the nearest parking is the price of fishing here. You can camp about half a mile away, going by the mapping. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Otter Pond, 0.7 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Ask locally about Pink Pond if anything is unclear.