Fishing Velvet Lake in Oneida County, Wisconsin

• Overview

  Velvet Lake is one of the Oneida County waters in Wisconsin. The land about it is rolling bush. It measures about 33 acres, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. The town to know is Rhinelander, 4.3 miles out. Green Bay is the closest city, 106 miles away. Nearest other option: Flannery Lake about 0.6 miles, Shadow Lake some 0.7 miles off, Hook Lake about 1.1 miles, Cherry Lake some 1.3 miles off and Vicks Lake about 1.4 miles. No boundary runs near, so the county rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Velvet Lake

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Public occurrence data for Oneida County names brown trout, walleye, largemouth bass and northern pike. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. On Velvet Lake the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between 10°F in January and 67°F in July. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly mid April. Climate figures give an open season running mid April to late November. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. Velvet Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. A campsite lies half a mile away for anyone staying over. This falls in or next to protected ground, so rules will be tighter than usual. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Flannery Lake, 0.6 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Velvet Lake in what we hold.