Lake · St. Lawrence, New York
Star Lake
At a glance
- Area
- 87 ha (216 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
- Atlantic salmon Salmo salarStocked · 2025 · 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)
- Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykissStocked · 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 | Stage | Number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Lake Trout | 310 | |
| 2025 | Landlocked Salmon | 1,030 | |
| 2025 | Rainbow Trout | 2,100 | |
| 2024 | Lake Trout | 260 | |
| 2024 | Landlocked Salmon | 160 | |
| 2024 | Landlocked Salmon | 15 | |
| 2024 | Landlocked Salmon | 1,000 | |
| 2024 | Rainbow Trout | 2,100 | |
| 2023 | Landlocked Salmon | 890 | |
| 2023 | Landlocked Salmon | 1,000 | |
| 2023 | Rainbow Trout | 2,000 | |
| 2023 | Rainbow Trout | 2,000 | |
| 2022 | Lake Trout | 300 | |
| 2022 | Landlocked Salmon | 940 | |
| 2022 | Rainbow Trout | 2,000 | |
| 2021 | Landlocked Salmon | 1,000 | |
| 2021 | Rainbow Trout | 1,740 | |
| 2020 | Lake Trout | 300 | |
| 2020 | Landlocked Salmon | 1,000 | |
| 2020 | Landlocked Salmon | 15,570 |
As the agency publishes it. Newest first: 20 of 36.
Getting on the water
No public access site is listed for this water yet.
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.
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.