Althea Lake Fishing Spot
- County: Middlesex County
- Acreage: 38
- Public Fishing: Yes
- Max Depth: 15'
- Bathymetry Map: View Althea Lake Bathymetry Map
- Website: http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/habitat/maps/ponds/pdf/dfwalth.pdf
- Last Modified By: carpmaster on 08/13/09 04:42 PM
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Fish Species
Althea Lake Baits and Tackle
Wet Fly Check Prices
- Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
- Wolly Bugger
Lure (Other) Check Prices
- Rubber worms frogs,spinners
All worked
Other Check Prices
- Bread Balls and Canned Corn
- Feed corn and dat food were on the menu. We also tried chick peas, canned corn, luncheon meat, a coupld of pack/dough baits.
We chummed a mix or bread crumb, hemp meal, pineapple soda and other such ingredients. - Oatmeal is the bait of choice from the locals. Simon and I also brought feed corn, boilies, chick peas, a few dough baits and a grits based pack bait.
all action was from our Dat food boilies ( pineapple and strawberry) and the grits based pack bait. Oatmeal produced one good run, and a few nibbles. - We had many things on hand, oatmeal, boilies, chick peas, feed corn, birdseed and grits based pack/method mixes, dog food, maple peas...
In the end most fish were caught on Chick peas, followed by Dat food (strawberry) with one on Simon's pineapple birdseed "cake" boilie.
Crankbait Check Prices
- KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
In-Line Spinner Check Prices
- Gold Vibrafox #2
- Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
- Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
- Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
- Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
- White Rooster Tail
Worm Check Prices
- Zoom Watermelon Seed
Craw Check Prices
Nightcrawler Check Prices
- Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
- worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
Minnow Check Prices
- Shine on and dropped.
Althea Lake Description
This is a small, 38-acre pond with a maximum depth of 15 feet. The shoreline is only lightly developed, mostly on the eastern side of the pond. Access is informal and limited primarily to foot traffic from Lowell-Dracut State Forest property on the southeastern end of the pond. Historically, emergent aquatic vegetation has been heavy at this pond, extending roughly 75 yards from the shoreline all around the pond.
This pond has not been sampled since 1978, but the same species sampled then are still likely to be present: largemouth bass, chain pickerel, yellow perch, pumpkinseed, bluegill, yellow bullhead and brown bullhead.
Limited access combined with shoreline weed growth makes this a difficult pond to fish, but these factors also tend to keep fishing pressure low. At the time of the last sample, the largemouth bass and other species were of large average size, providing a good opportunity to catch some big fish. To avoid the weed problem, angers would be advised to visit this pond in the early spring, before the weeds are up, or to hit it during the winter for ice fishing action.