Mauthe Lake, Wisconsin: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Within Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, you have Mauthe Lake. Beyond the shoreline you have rolling bush. It runs to roughly 70 acres — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. The full circuit measures close to 1.2 miles on foot. Some 4.9 miles away sits Campbellsport, the nearest settlement. Kewaskum is 6.1 miles and Ashford 9.5 miles. A border sits close enough to be relevant to the paperwork.

• Where to Fish on Mauthe Lake

  The charted maximum sits at about 23 feet. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Public occurrence data for Fond du Lac County names brown trout, common carp, bluegill and largemouth bass. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. At Mauthe Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs 17°F to 70°F. Winter shuts the surface down for months. The lid usually goes in early April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. The open-water window runs from around early April to about early December in an average year. The first weeks of open water and the last are the ones to plan for. Mauthe Lake runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. There is a launch about half a mile from the bank. There is a mapped landing stage half a mile away. There is a campsite half a mile from the water. Mapping shows a picnic spot within half a mile. There are toilets half a mile off. A phone call first saves an afternoon. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. The nearest alternative is Forest Lake, 0.8 miles out. Check the current arrangement for Mauthe Lake.