Lykens Lake Fishing near Amery, Wisconsin

• Overview

  Lykens Lake is a Polk County water, in Wisconsin. This is rolling bush ground. About 20 acres of surface, which puts the far bank inside easy sight. Start from Amery, 9.1 miles down the road. Saint Croix Falls follows at 9.3 miles, then Taylors Falls at 9.9 miles. Others close at hand: Parker Lake 1.2 miles, 1.8 miles away is Wild Goose Lake, Mill Pond 1.8 miles, 1.9 miles away is Little Bass Lake and East Lake 2.3 miles. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lykens Lake

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Public occurrence data for Polk County names brown trout, rainbow trout, northern pike and largemouth bass. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Lykens Lake gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is 10°F to 70°F. Fishing here follows the temperature more than the calendar. After mid April the shallows warm and the fish move up. Averages suggest open water from about mid April through to roughly late November. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. Plan any trip to Lykens Lake around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Parker Lake, 1.2 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Lykens Lake for certain.