County Park Lake · Lake County, IN · Data pending

Lake Etta

A put-and-take fishing lake in a 112-acre Lake County park in Gary, popular for largemouth bass and crappie.

Surface Area
Max Depth
Sport Species
Public Access
Yes

Water conditions

USGS gage
No nearby USGS temperature gage matched yet. Conditions will populate once the water-data pull runs for this lake.

Stocking history

Indiana DNR
No stocking records loaded yet — pending the Indiana DNR data pull. (Some waters, like natural marshes, have no stocking at all.)

What's in the water

From the DNR fish survey
Largemouth bassMicropterus salmoides
Present
White crappiePomoxis annularis
Present
Black crappiePomoxis nigromaculatus
Present

Fishing the lake

Local notes

Lake Etta County Park sits in the southwest corner of Gary with put-and-take fishing ponds; a fishing fee is collected only when a gatekeeper is on duty.

No Indiana fishing license is required inside the park, but Lake County Parks rules apply: 10 fish per day, two-pole limit, and strict catch-and-release on largemouth bass.

Data provenance
Lake boundary & area · USGS NHD
Water temp · USGS Water Data
Stocking & survey · Indiana DNR
Park access · Lake County Parks
Numeric values (acreage, depth, water temp, stocking counts) are SAMPLE or PENDING the live data pull — not accurate yet. Lake names, types, and access details are real.