Pepacton Reservoir fishing: White Sucker, Brown Trout, Longnose Sucker
Target species: White Sucker, Brown Trout, Longnose Sucker, Yellow Perch, American Eel
The reservoir
Pepacton Reservoir covers 5,439 acres in New York, across Delaware County. It is a reservoir: 96% of it is 160 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 183 feet (55.9 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.
Depth: down to 183 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 183 ft (55.9 m). 96% of the water is 160 feet or shallower. We hold 153 depth contours for this water, drawn from 434,322 soundings.
- 0–10 ft: 3.1% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 7.4% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 9.7% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 6% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 5.3% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 4.7% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 100–110 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 110–120 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 120–130 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 130–140 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 140–150 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 150–160 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 160–170 ft: 3.9% of the water
- 170–173 ft: 0.1% of the water
5 target fish, led by White Sucker
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Longnose Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
- American Eel — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
Also recorded here: Slimy Sculpin.
Stocking: 123,840 fish, 2011–2025
NYSDEC records list 123,840 fish released into this water from 2011 to 2025.
- Brown Trout: 123,840 in 2011–2025
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 77°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.4. These readings span 2017. The latest reading is from 2017, 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: 5,439 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle.
Where this data comes from
- USGS / NYC DEP — USGS / NYC DEP: 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.
