Park Lake, Columbia County, Wisconsin — fishing destination

Columbia County • South-Central Wisconsin

Fishing Park Lake, Wisconsin

A shallow impoundment on the Duck Creek flowage in Portage. Park Lake is a community fishery with largemouth bass, panfish, and pike along its shallow weed flats and shoreline structure. Country Cave Baits injection-pours premium soft plastic baits built for the bass, panfish and walleye that call Park Lake home.

124 acres Max depth 14 ft Columbia County

About Park Lake

A shallow impoundment on the Duck Creek flowage in Portage. Park Lake is a community fishery with largemouth bass, panfish, and pike along its shallow weed flats and shoreline structure.

Park Lake is located in Columbia County in South-Central Wisconsin and is one of the state's premier fishing destinations. Anglers visiting Park Lake target Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, Crappie and Northern Pike throughout the open-water season. Whether you're fishing from a boat or the shore, Park Lake offers diverse structure and productive water that responds well to injection-poured soft plastic baits from Country Cave Baits — made right here in Fall River, WI.

Fish Species in Park Lake

Largemouth Bass Bluegill Crappie Northern Pike

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Best Baits for Park Lake

Our top-recommended Country Cave Baits for fishing Park Lake in Columbia County, Wisconsin. Each is injection-poured in Fall River, WI and shipped fresh to your door.

5 Inch Stick Worm for fishing Park Lake, Columbia County, Wisconsin

$5.95

The versatile workhorse

5 Inch Stick Worm

Our 5-inch stick worm is injection-poured with a soft plastic that shimmies on the fall and drives bass wild. Perfect for wacky rigging, Texas rigging, or a weightless presentation in shallow cover.

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Crappie Bug for fishing Park Lake, Columbia County, Wisconsin

$5.25

Panfish creature bait

Crappie Bug

The Crappie Bug is a tiny creature bait with wiggling legs and a soft, buoyant body that hovers naturally on a light jig. Crappie, bluegill, and perch all fall for its subtle, buggy action under docks and around brush piles. It's a go-to ice fishing bait too — jig it through the ice around brush and cribs for slab panfish all winter.

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4 Inch Craw for fishing Park Lake, Columbia County, Wisconsin

$6.25

Flip, pitch & punch

4 Inch Craw

A full-bodied 4-inch craw with aggressive kicking claws that thump on the retrieve. Built thick to hold up through dozens of fish, this bait excels flipped into heavy cover or dragged on a jig head.

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1.2 Inch Crappie Slayer for fishing Park Lake, Columbia County, Wisconsin

$6.50

Slab crappie magnet

1.2 Inch Crappie Slayer

Our 1.2-inch Crappie Slayer is a micro tube designed specifically for slab crappie. The tiny ribbed body and flowing tail seduce panfish into biting when the bite is tough. Rig it on a small jig head under a float or tight-line it vertically. It's also a deadly ice fishing bait — drop it through the ice to suspended crappie and bluegill all winter long.

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