Woodland Reservoir in Onondaga County: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Woodland Reservoir is listed under Onondaga County, New York. Height above sea level is 620 feet. The water measures roughly 13 acres, so nothing here is far from anything else. The town to know is Syracuse, 2.1 miles out. The nearest city of size is Syracuse, 1.9 miles away. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Woodland Reservoir

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Species logged across Onondaga County include brown trout, common carp, white sucker, pumpkinseed and bluegill. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. Fish Woodland Reservoir where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 71°F at the top of summer and 23°F at the bottom of winter. Four clear seasons, with a proper winter at one end. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from late March. Break-up sits around late March on average, with the water closing again about late December. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. On Woodland Reservoir that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. A car park sits roughly half a mile away. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. If the gate is shut, Hiawatha Lake at 0.4 miles is the nearest alternative. Rules at Woodland Reservoir are worth checking on the day.