Gardner Lake

• Gardner Lake:
• Despite the fact it's as busy as a race track and has a building pollution problem, Gardner Lake still supports a pretty good population of fish to chase. I live three miles from this lake, but only fish it on rainy days, because the boat and jet ski traffic is so aggravating.
• Access: Access to Gardner Lake is difficult from shore, because of the fact that private homes and campgrounds, like most of the larger lakes in the world, own the majority of lake shoreline. Public shore-based access is through a small access point at the dam, Hopemead State Park, a short distance south of there in the northeastern corner of the lake and at the DEP launch site, along the southern shore of the lake.
• Fishing:It is a deep-water lake that has bluegills, pumpkinseeds, calico bass, yellow perch, large and smallmouth bass, brown bullheads and is stocked with trout and walleye, so there are many angling options in this lake, if you can put up with the boat traffic. (Bob Sampson, Jr., Norwich Bulletin)