Every named lake, pond, river, and stream worth fishing in the Adirondack Park — with the species you'll find, the access you can count on, and the regions they sit in.
Jockeybush Lake sits in the Speculator region — a 42-acre water with minimal public record and no official fish stocking data on file. The lake appears on USGS topo maps but lacks the trailhead signage and DEC documentation that typically signal accessible public water; if there's a marked route in, it's likely a local-knowledge path or a private-land crossing worth confirming before you bushwhack. Waters like this one — named, mapped, but institutionally quiet — often hold brook trout that migrated in decades ago, or they hold nothing but frogs and the occasional passing heron. Check with the Speculator DEC office or local fly shops for current access status and whether anyone's pulled fish out in the last ten years.
Jones Lake is a 16-acre pond in the Speculator region — small, unmapped by most guidebooks, and typical of the dozens of quiet waters scattered across the southern Adirondacks that see more moose than paddlers. No fish stocking records on file, which usually means wild brookies or nothing at all. Access details are thin: if there's a formal trail it's not widely documented, and the lake sits far enough off the main recreational corridors that it's either a bushwhack or a local-knowledge put-in. Worth a call to the Speculator DEC office before committing the afternoon.
