Sodus Bay fishing: Walleye, Cisco
Target species: Walleye, Cisco
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Sodus Bay, 1 lane.
The lake
Sodus Bay covers 3,210 acres in New York, across Wayne County. It is a lake: 92.7% of it is 33 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 47.9 feet (14.6 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.
Stocking: 1,119,666 fish, 2011–2025
NYSDEC records list 1,119,666 fish released into this water from 2011 to 2025.
- Walleye: 625,292 in 2011–2024
2 more species on the stocking list.
Depth: down to 47.9 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 47.9 ft (14.6 m). 92.7% of the water is 33 feet or shallower. We hold 99 depth contours for this water, drawn from 2,525 soundings.
- 0–3 ft: 16.6% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 11.5% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 8.1% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 8.2% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 6% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 6.4% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 5.5% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 1% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 0.7% of the water
- 42–43 ft: 0.2% of the water
2 target fish, led by Walleye
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Cisco — Feeding water: 40–60°F.
Also recorded here: Goldfish.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Sodus Bay — 1 lane, restrooms. Finger Lakes Institute. Sodus Point, NY 14555, USA
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 79°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2017–2023.
What is hard here
Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- USACE eHydro — USACE eHydro channel surveys: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- NOAA ENC — NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts: soundings: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- NOAA National Bathymetric Source (S-102 ed3.0.0) — NOAA S-102 bathymetric surfaces: contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- NOAA ENC — NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts: 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.
