Pate Lake

Fishing and stocking

Black crappie water, stocked through the 2024-25 season program; 5,095 fish in the published allocation. A 383-acre lake.

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program 2024-25 season

best window 9:44-11:44 pm solunar major today

1 species

5,095 fish allocated

383 acres (NHD)

What swims here

Black crappie 1 allocation

Season program record

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission publishes this water by season or program window, not by dated schedule, so there are no truck dates to list; the rows below are the published program allocations. The Florida season shape statewide: year round, reported by fiscal year.

Agency feed checked today.

Season	Species	Size	Fish
2024-25 season	Black crappie		5,095

When to fish Pate Lake

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	9:21-11:21 am and 9:44-11:44 pm	3:38-4:38 am and 3:56-4:56 pm
Tomorrow	10:07 am-12:07 pm and 10:31 pm-12:31 am	4:40-5:40 am and 4:27-5:27 pm

Moon: waxing gibbous, 92% lit. These are solunar periods, the traditional feeding-time theory: majors around the moon's transit overhead and underfoot, minors around moonrise and moonset. Theory, not a measurement. Times are Central Time (CDT).

What the record actually says

Stocked through the 2024-25 season program

Computed this evening, Oct 23

Gear for this water

For the panfish (black crappie on the season program here, stillwater)

Long telescoping pole	reach the pockets without spooking the school
Ultralight rod and small jigs	1/32 to 1/64 oz jigs under a float; 2 to 4 lb line
Live bait	waxworms, crickets, and redworms out-fish everything for bluegill

Suggestions follow from what the state actually stocks here and what kind of water it is, nothing else. No sponsored placements.

Nearby stocked waters

The closest waters with stocking pages of their own, straight-line miles from this one.

Water	Distance	Most recent
Lucas Lake	11 mi	2024-25 season
Sand Pond West	15 mi	2024-25 season
Lake Victor	20 mi	2024-25 season
Lake DeFuniak	22 mi	2024-25 season
Juniper Lake	23 mi	2024-25 season

Records from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (official page). Placement from USGS GNIS and the National Hydrography Dataset. Schedules change without notice. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Florida fishing regulations.