Lamar County Public Fishing Lake
Lamar County Public Fishing Lake is a 68-acre ADCNR lake eight miles west of Vernon — stocked with bass, bream, crappie, catfish, and hybrid stripers, with on-site cabins and campsites.

Boat Ramp Cove
ADCNR-built boat ramp — the primary launching zone on the 68-acre impoundment. Restrooms, concessions (bait, tackle, snacks), and the lake office are clustered at the same access point. Personal boats launch with the $5 Fishing Permit (launch included). · Launch a jon boat or bass boat at the ramp and fish the ramp cove with a wacky-rigged Senko and a small crankbait at first light for largemouth; cricket under a bobber off the pier and ramp edge for bluegill; chicken liver on a slip-sinker rig at dusk for channel catfish. Live shad or shiners drifted in the ramp cove at dawn can pick off early-moving wipers feeding on bait. · Year-round

Fishing Pier
ADCNR fishing pier at Lamar County PFL — the signature bank-and-pier access point on the lake. The pier is the reliable bream, catfish, and crappie stand for anglers fishing without a boat and for families staying in the on-site cabins. · Cricket or red wiggler under a small bobber for bluegill and redear spring through summer; minnow under a slip-bobber for crappie in late winter and fall; chicken liver on bottom for channel catfish at dusk. For wipers, a live shad free-lined off the end of the pier at dawn or dusk through summer will pick up schooling fish working the pier drop-off. · Spring + Fall + Winter

Main Pool / Open Water
Open-water main pool of the 68-acre impoundment — the deepest, clearest water on the lake and the summer holding zone for hybrid stripers schooling on shad. Midday holding water for largemouth pulling off shoreline cover in summer and a cold-season crappie zone over deeper brush. · Live shad or shiners on a Carolina rig or free-lined under a balloon for hybrid stripers working shad schools at dawn and dusk through summer; drop-shot or Carolina-rigged worm on mid-pool structure in summer for largemouth; small minnow-imitator jig vertical over deeper brush in winter for crappie; tight-line cut bait on the bottom after dark for channel catfish. · Summer (hybrid stripers) + Winter (crappie)

Shoreline Brush + Timber
Shoreline timber edges and sunken brush along the banks of the 68-acre pool — natural cover for bluegill, redear, crappie, and bedding largemouth. ADCNR maintains and refreshes lake habitat as part of the intensive-management PFL program. · Flip a small jig to shoreline wood for largemouth in April; cricket under a slip-bobber on shallow brush-edge for bream bedding in May; a red wiggler fished a little deeper on the same wood for redear; minnow under a slip-bobber for crappie staging on shallow brush in March and October. · Spring + Fall

Cabin Shoreline
Shoreline fronting the on-site cabins — a quiet, low-traffic bank zone that cabin renters can fish on foot without competing with boat traffic. One of the distinguishing features of Lamar County PFL compared with most of the twenty-lake PFL network: on-site lodging with walk-down lake access. · Cricket under a bobber for bluegill in the cabin coves from April through July; chicken liver or nightcrawler on a slip-sinker rig for channel catfish at dusk; wacky-rigged stick worm on shoreline wood in front of the cabins for morning and evening largemouth; live shad free-lined off the cabin bank at first light for wipers working the near-shore shad schools in summer. · Spring + Summer + Fall

Dam End / Deep Bank
Dam end of the 68-acre impoundment — the deepest shoreline water on the lake, a natural hold for largemouth pulling off shallow cover in summer heat, a cold-season crappie stop over deeper brush, a summer hybrid-striper zone, and a channel catfish magnet at dusk on bottom baits. · Carolina-rigged worm or jig-and-pig dragged along the dam for largemouth holding deeper in summer; live shad drifted off the dam for wipers working shad through the heat; small minnow-imitator jig vertical over deeper brush for winter crappie; chicken liver, nightcrawler, or cut bait on a slip-sinker rig on the bottom at dusk for channel catfish. · Summer + Fall + Winter

Lamar County Public Fishing Lake — Lake Center