Lake · Livingston, New York

Hemlock Lake

At a glance

Area: 839 ha (2,073 acres)

This lake's year

A ring of the twelve months, January at the top: the outer band is the ice cover, the inner rings the spawning months of the lake's species, and a needle marks the day this page was updated. The list beside it says the same.

No published ice dates for this lake.
1. Lake trout spawns: Sep–Dec
Needle: Oct 25, the day this page was updated

Spawning months from each species' cited source for this region, for its five best-recorded species here; ice dates from the published record (sources below). Summer layering and fall turnover are drawn only for lakes the USGS has modelled (in the U.S. Midwest).

Who lives here

Brook trout Salvelinus fontinalisStocked · 2021 · Fish stocking: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Fish Stocking Lists (data.ny.gov)
Lake trout Salvelinus namaycushStocked · 2025 · Fish stocking: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Fish Stocking Lists (data.ny.gov)

Not listed doesn't mean no fish.

Stocking

Year	Species	Number
2025	Lake Trout	2,910
2025	Lake Trout	6,600
2024	Lake Trout	6,600
2024	Lake Trout	2,500
2023	Lake Trout	6,600
2023	Lake Trout	3,090
2022	Lake Trout	6,600
2022	Lake Trout	3,200
2021	Brook Trout	388
2021	Lake Trout	6,600
2021	Lake Trout	3,060
2020	Lake Trout	3,060
2020	Lake Trout	6,020
2019	Lake Trout	6,600
2019	Lake Trout	3,200
2018	Lake Trout	3,200
2018	Lake Trout	6,600
2017	Lake Trout	3,200
2017	Lake Trout	6,600
2016	Lake Trout	6,600

As the agency publishes it. Newest first: 20 of 21.

Getting on the water

Hemlock Lake Public Boat Launch: North-endBoat launch · New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and WISP programs

Listed by public agencies. A listed site doesn't make the water or its shore open to fishing: when in doubt, it's unknown. Check signs and local rules.

The rules

Summary, not the law. Check the official regulations before you fish.

HuntGrid has no rules for this water yet.

Official regulations: New York State DEC

What's biting

Not enough anglers have shared catches here lately. A species shows for a week once at least 5 anglers share catches of it.

From anglers who chose to share their catches in HuntGrid Fishing, each counted once, counts rounded to the nearest 5, published 3 days after the week ends and never changed. Never a spot, time or name.

About this page

Sources and licences:

U.S. Geological Survey, National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution (NHDPlus HR); U.S. Census Bureau, TIGER/Line® Shapefiles 2025: counties and states · Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. §105)
Fish stocking: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Fish Stocking Lists (data.ny.gov) · OPEN-NY Terms of Use (https://data.ny.gov/dataset/OPEN-NY-Terms-Of-Use/77gx-ii52, read 2026-10-19): no attribution required; "You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the State", accepted under the owner's 2026-10-19 rule. data.ny.gov dataset e52k-ymww (Fish Stocking Lists (Actual): Beginning 2011, read 2026-10-19) states no other licence. Credit the agency; remove the layer if the agency asks.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and WISP programs · No restrictions on use (NYS DEC, the item's terms of use: "No restrictions")

Spawning months:

Lake trout: Marcus, M.D., W.A. Hubert and S.H. Anderson. 1984. Habitat suitability index models: Lake trout (exclusive of the Great Lakes). U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. FWS/OBS-82/10.84 (habitat use information: temperature that cues spawning (varies by lake)); p. 3 (spawning months: Great Lakes, New York, New Hampshire, Maine; mid-August to mid-September in Great Bear and Great Slave lakes)

The outline is drawn from the official water data credited above, without a basemap. These pages show no angler's catches, spots or tracks.