Turtle Lake Fishing Guide, Oconto County, Wisconsin

• Overview

  You will find Turtle Lake in Oconto County, Wisconsin. This is pine and birch ground. This is a tiny water, and one quiet approach covers all of it. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Oconto County. For supplies, Gillett is 19 miles out. It is 47 miles to Green Bay, the nearest city. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Turtle Lake

  We hold no depth figure for this one. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Oconto County records list brown trout, largemouth bass, bluegill and yellow perch among the fish reported. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. Turtle Lake gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 68°F at the top of summer and 13°F at the bottom of winter. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Break-up comes around mid April, and the run that follows is short and strong. The water is typically free of ice between mid April and early December. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. It holds true on Turtle Lake more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. A phone call first saves an afternoon. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. For a change of water, Shay Lake is 1.2 miles distant. Rules at Turtle Lake are worth checking on the day.