Stony Creek Ponds near Tupper Lake: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  Set in Franklin County, New York, this is Stony Creek Ponds. It stands 1,549 feet above sea level. Surface area is around 192 acres, which gives you real water without needing a boat. Some 3.5 miles of bank gives room to move when the wind turns. Size puts it in the front rank of our Franklin County list. Tupper Lake sits 7.7 miles from the bank. Ville-Marie sits 96 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Stony Creek Ponds

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Across Franklin County, recorded fish include brook trout, white sucker and brown trout. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Stony Creek Ponds responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-term averages put July at about 64°F and January near 14°F. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from mid April. Averages place the thaw at mid April and the freeze at early December. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. Anyone fishing Stony Creek Ponds regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Panther Pond, 1.6 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Where Stony Creek Ponds is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.