Welcome Lake Fishing Guide, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

• Overview

  Look for Welcome Lake in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It sits at 1,152 feet above sea level. Around 43 acres of surface means several distinct areas to work. The edge runs 1.0 miles or so, easy to work in an afternoon. Head to Hawley, 8.4 miles away, for anything you forgot. Paterson is the closest city, 65 miles away. A county line runs close by, so local bylaws can differ within a short drive.

• Where to Fish on Welcome Lake

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Wayne County records list yellow perch, bluegill, largemouth bass, brown trout and chain pickerel among the fish reported. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Welcome Lake fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 69°F and January at 23°F. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. The lid usually goes in early April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Open water usually runs from early April until about late December. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Welcome Lake runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. You will be walking about 0.9 miles from the nearest car park. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. The nearest alternative is Panther Lake, 0.7 miles out. For Welcome Lake, the notice at the access point is the final word.