South Bay forms the southern arm of Lake George — a 935-acre basin separated from the main lake by a narrow channel near the Montcalm Street bridge in Lake George Village. The bay is effectively a distinct body of water: shallower and warmer than the main lake, lined with seasonal docks and camps, and sheltered enough that it's often calmer when the main lake is whitecapping. It's a boat-access fishery (no dedicated launch on the bay itself; use Million Dollar Beach or Hague), and while the DEC has no current species data on file, the bay historically holds warmwater species that favor the shallow, weedy structure. South Bay Brook enters from the southeast — a thermal refuge in summer and a known spawning tributary.
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