Snakehill road where the lake is located, just off of Greenpond Road, is an unimproved road often traveled and enjoyed by locals for its scenery and just the fun of a dirt road in an area where there aren't many of them left. It does to require an off-road vehicle, just some careful driving around a few turns where rain and erosion can cause a "washboard" that will easily put your Prius into a 5 foot deep ditch running alongside the road.
The lake however is only a few hundred feet off of green pond road and loaded with "natural wonders" (which can really be enjoyed when it's not overrun with human visitors) especially in the late spring and early summer months when you will often see turtles, frogs, plentiful butterflies and birds, muskrats, beavers, sometimes deer and often black bear. We've also spotted fox, otter, and even a bobcat nearby.
The lake however is only a few hundred feet off of green pond road and loaded with "natural wonders" (which can really be enjoyed when it's not overrun with human visitors) especially in the late spring and early summer months when you will often see turtles, frogs, plentiful butterflies and birds, muskrats, beavers, sometimes deer and often black bear. We've also spotted fox, otter, and even a bobcat nearby.
The lake itself can be difficult to fish from the heavily overgrown shoreline (the beach is clear but not a great place to fish) but if you get a small pram or a kayak on it, you're sure to find pickerel and bass along the lilly pad covered shorelines. The lake is loaded with sunfish and I've been told that it holds a good few heavy-weight largemouth if you know how and where to find them, though I've never gotten an impressive bass from this lake myself.
I have, however, caught quite a few fish and many more since getting my kayak onto the water there. The pickerel and bass don't seem to be "choosey" and eagerly bite at weightless, Texas rigged worms in various styles dragged overtop of the lilly pads or allowed to sink along the edges and in holes between dense weed beds.
The "beach" area where people used to be permitted to swim at the lake is now mostly overgrown and remains fairly shallow a good distance out. The corner of the lake between the waterfall and Greenpond road is the deepest area in the lake, and if you're brave enough (and the water is low enough) to walk across the top of the snake-infested slippery top of the falls to that bit of shoreline, it's a good place to throw in a line and sit back to catch some of the bullheads in the lake. Nightcrawlers on slip sinker rigs work well, as well as corn and stink bait.
Besides pickerel and bass there are sunfish and bullheads in the lake. The stream that flows from this lake, called Hibernia Brook, is also stocked with trout by the state, although with the disease that ran through Pequest this past year it wasn't stocked for this season. There is one deep hole where most of the stocked trout can be found and caught by tossing a pinched night crawler, meal worm, powerbait or gulp minnow into the tiny little waterfall above the pool and let to drift down through it.
Overall it's a nice little lake, and worth a visit for sure! Bring your bug spray, and be sure to leave before dark unless your desire is to meet the Rockaway Township police. Good luck! Hope somebody gets one of the big ones the old timers tell me reside here.
-LAKE SURVEY MAP TO FOLLOW IN NEAR FUTURE-
I have, however, caught quite a few fish and many more since getting my kayak onto the water there. The pickerel and bass don't seem to be "choosey" and eagerly bite at weightless, Texas rigged worms in various styles dragged overtop of the lilly pads or allowed to sink along the edges and in holes between dense weed beds.
The "beach" area where people used to be permitted to swim at the lake is now mostly overgrown and remains fairly shallow a good distance out. The corner of the lake between the waterfall and Greenpond road is the deepest area in the lake, and if you're brave enough (and the water is low enough) to walk across the top of the snake-infested slippery top of the falls to that bit of shoreline, it's a good place to throw in a line and sit back to catch some of the bullheads in the lake. Nightcrawlers on slip sinker rigs work well, as well as corn and stink bait.
Besides pickerel and bass there are sunfish and bullheads in the lake. The stream that flows from this lake, called Hibernia Brook, is also stocked with trout by the state, although with the disease that ran through Pequest this past year it wasn't stocked for this season. There is one deep hole where most of the stocked trout can be found and caught by tossing a pinched night crawler, meal worm, powerbait or gulp minnow into the tiny little waterfall above the pool and let to drift down through it.
Overall it's a nice little lake, and worth a visit for sure! Bring your bug spray, and be sure to leave before dark unless your desire is to meet the Rockaway Township police. Good luck! Hope somebody gets one of the big ones the old timers tell me reside here.
-LAKE SURVEY MAP TO FOLLOW IN NEAR FUTURE-
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