Shingle Shanty Pond Fishing Guide, Herkimer County, New York

• Overview

  This water sits in Herkimer County, New York. The ground around here is pine and birch. With some 79 acres of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. The whole outline is near 1.6 miles, and most of it is walkable. It ranks high for size among our Herkimer County listings. Start from Tupper Lake, 26 miles down the road. It is 87 miles to Kingston, the nearest city. This one sits near enough to a boundary to be worth checking.

• Where to Fish on Shingle Shanty Pond

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Reported across Herkimer County: white sucker, yellow perch and brook trout. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Fish Shingle Shanty Pond to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 64°F in July and bottoms out near 13°F in January. Fishing here follows the temperature more than the calendar. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. The open-water window runs from around late April to about early December in an average year. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Plan around that when you fish Shingle Shanty Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Nothing in the way of made access shows up nearby: no ramp, no car park, no path. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Should this one be busy, Little Lilly Pad Pond is 0.5 miles off. Treat Shingle Shanty Pond as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.