Plantation Lake Fishing Guide, Oconto County, Wisconsin

• Overview

  Plantation Lake is one of the Oconto County listings for Wisconsin. The bank is 1,309 feet above sea level. This is a pocket water of some 21 acres, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. The closest town, Crandon, is 22 miles distant. The nearest city of size is Green Bay, 63 miles away. The line between counties passes nearby, which can change who manages the water.

• Where to Fish on Plantation Lake

  Open data we checked carries no depth for this water. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Oconto County list brown trout, largemouth bass, bluegill and yellow perch. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. At Plantation Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between 12°F in January and 66°F in July. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. After mid April the shallows warm and the fish move up. On the long-run averages the water opens up around mid April and starts locking again about late November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Anyone fishing Plantation Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. If the gate is shut, Pickerel Lake at 0.9 miles is the nearest alternative. None of that is settled for Plantation Lake in what we hold.