Perry Lake fishing: Orangespotted Sunfish
Target species: Orangespotted Sunfish
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Serenity.
The lake
Perry Lake covers 10,863 acres in Kansas, across Jefferson County. It is a lake: 97.7% of it is 42 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 50 feet (15.2 m). Our records hold 5 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 50 ft (15.2 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 97.7% of the water is 42 feet or shallower. We hold 192 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 19.2% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 5% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 4.6% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 5.9% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 6.2% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 8.5% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 11.6% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 3.2% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 4.6% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 9.8% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 1.7% of the water
- 45–48 ft: 0.5% of the water
- 48–50 ft: 0.3% of the water
The target fish: Orangespotted Sunfish
- Orangespotted Sunfish — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
Also recorded here: Red Shiner, Emerald Shiner, Fathead Minnow, Western Mosquitofish.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Serenity website rockcreekmarinaandresort.com
The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 74°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.8. These readings span 2017–2020. The latest reading is from 2020, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 10,863 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS), University of Kansas — Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS), University of Kansas: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
