Clark Lakes Pond One Fishing in Pickaway County, Ohio

• Overview

  Pickaway County, Ohio, is where Clark Lakes Pond One sits. The land about it is open valley. At 13 acres it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. The town to know is Commercial Point, 6.2 miles out. The nearest city of size is Columbus, 16 miles away. It sits near the edge of the county, so check which rules apply.

• Where to Fish on Clark Lakes Pond One

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Levels move with the draw rather than the rain on water like this. Held water runs deepest at the wall and shallows back to the inflow. Fish documented in Pickaway County include bluebreast darter, rainbow darter, variegate darter, greenside darter and tippecanoe darter. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. At Clark Lakes Pond One the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from 27°F in January up to 73°F in July. Some winters cap it and some do not. In milder years the edges alone go, and the middle never sets. April and May are the settled weeks, with October close behind. Anyone fishing Clark Lakes Pond One regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. One rod, a handful of hooks and floats, and a few small lures are enough for this water. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Sunset Hill Estate Lake, 0.8 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Clark Lakes Pond One for certain.