Artist Lake
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Artist Lake is a glacial kettle hole lake
located in Middle Island, New York
south of Middle Country Road (Route 25
) in central Long Island
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Artist Lake holds a diverse warm water fish community including largemouth bass and pickerel. It is also one of Long Island's better waters for crappie and perch.
Species Present (naturally reproducing):
Access is via Town of Brookhaven's park located directly off of Middle Country Road.
Directions: Take Route 25 to Middle Island; lake is on the south side of the road opposite of what used to be Kmart.
Restrictions: Hand launched boats are allowed; shoreline access is available but limited.
Artist Lake has an irregular shape that was formed by the melting of massive chunks of partially buried glacial ice.
A lake formed this way is called a kettlehole. Artist Lake has no inlet or outlet streams
. Therefore, the water level is determined by groundwater that gradually changes during periods of dry or wet weather.
Artist Lake has three connected basins with a total surface area of 30 acres (121,405.8 m²). The largest and deepest basin is on the east basin which has a maximum depth of nine feet. The south and west basins are shallower, in particularly the west basin which does not exceed two feet in depth.
Most of the shoreline of Artist Lake is privately owned. Public access is available from Middle Country Road (Route 25).
Canoes or other hand carried boats can be launched from a small Brookhaven town park on the south side of the road.
Fishing from shore is also possible. There is room for five or six cars to pull off the highway.
Artist Lake is located on NYS Route 25 in Middle Island just east of Suffolk County Route 21
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Lake
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located in Middle Island, New York
Middle Island, New York
Middle Island is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 9,702 at the 2000 census. It is situated between the towns of Coram and Ridge, to the west and east, respectively, and Rocky Point and Yaphank to the north and south...
south of Middle Country Road (Route 25
New York State Route 25
New York State Route 25 is an east–west state highway in downstate New York in the United States. The route extends for just over from east midtown Manhattan in New York City to the Cross Sound Ferry terminal at Orient Point on the end of Long Island's North Fork...
) in central Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
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Artist Lake holds a diverse warm water fish community including largemouth bass and pickerel. It is also one of Long Island's better waters for crappie and perch.
Species Present (naturally reproducing):
- Largemouth BassLargemouth bassThe largemouth bass is a species of black bass in the sunfish family native to North America . It is also known as widemouth bass, bigmouth, black bass, bucketmouth, Potter's fish, Florida bass, Florida largemouth, green bass, green trout, linesides, Oswego bass, southern largemouth...
- Chain PickerelChain pickerelThe chain pickerel, Esox niger , is a species of freshwater fish in the pike family of order Esociformes. The chain pickerel and the american pickerel belong to the Esox genus of pikes.-Range:...
- BluegillBluegillThe Bluegill is a species of freshwater fish sometimes referred to as bream, brim, or copper nose. It is a member of the sunfish family Centrarchidae of the order Perciformes.-Range and distribution:...
- PumpkinseedPumpkinseedThe pumpkinseed sunfish is a freshwater fish of the sunfish family of order Perciformes. It is also referred to as "pond perch", "common sunfish", "punkys", and "sunny".-Range and distribution:...
- Black Crappie
- Yellow PerchYellow perchThe yellow perch is a species of perch found in the United States and Canada, where it is often referred to by the shortform perch. Yellow perch look similar to the European perch, but are paler and more yellowish, with less red in the fins. They have six to eight dark, vertical bars on their sides...
- White PerchWhite perchThe white perch, Morone americana, is not a true perch but is, rather, a fish of the temperate bass family, Moronidae, notable as a food and game fish in eastern North America.The name "white perch" is sometimes erroneously applied to the white crappie....
- Brown BullheadBrown bullheadThe brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus, is a fish of the Ictaluridae family that is widely distributed in North America. It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead and yellow bullhead...
Access is via Town of Brookhaven's park located directly off of Middle Country Road.
Directions: Take Route 25 to Middle Island; lake is on the south side of the road opposite of what used to be Kmart.
Restrictions: Hand launched boats are allowed; shoreline access is available but limited.
Artist Lake has an irregular shape that was formed by the melting of massive chunks of partially buried glacial ice.
A lake formed this way is called a kettlehole. Artist Lake has no inlet or outlet streams
STREAMS
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. Therefore, the water level is determined by groundwater that gradually changes during periods of dry or wet weather.
Artist Lake has three connected basins with a total surface area of 30 acres (121,405.8 m²). The largest and deepest basin is on the east basin which has a maximum depth of nine feet. The south and west basins are shallower, in particularly the west basin which does not exceed two feet in depth.
Most of the shoreline of Artist Lake is privately owned. Public access is available from Middle Country Road (Route 25).
Canoes or other hand carried boats can be launched from a small Brookhaven town park on the south side of the road.
Fishing from shore is also possible. There is room for five or six cars to pull off the highway.
Artist Lake is located on NYS Route 25 in Middle Island just east of Suffolk County Route 21
County Route 21 (Suffolk County, New York)
Suffolk County Route 21 is a north–south county road in Suffolk County, New York. Its southern end is at County Route 16 at its interchange with New York State Route 27 in Brookhaven, and the highway ends at New York State Route 25A in Rocky Point....
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