Crystal Lake is one of seven Crystal Lakes in
Polk County, Florida
Polk County is located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. The county population was 725,046, as of the 2020 census. Its county seat is Bartow, and its largest city is Lakeland.
Polk County comprises the Lakeland–Winter Ha ...
, USA. It has a surface area of . This lake is inside Lakeland, Florida, and most of the area surrounding it is completely urbanized. It is bounded on the east by county road 659 and on the north by Crystal Lake Park and North Crystal Lake Drive. On the west it is bordered by homes. On the southwest it is bordered by South Crystal Lake Drive and on the southeast it is bounded by more homes.
Crystal Lake has public access at Crystal Lake Park. This park has a fishing pier, a boat ramp and canoe access point, and some picnic tables. The park is open daily from dawn to dusk. There are no boat ramps or swimming areas along the lake shore, but it can be fished from the shore. The Take Me Fishing website says Lake Wire contains
largemouth bass
The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, but ...
,
bream and
bluegill
The bluegill (''Lepomis macrochirus''), sometimes referred to as "bream", "brim", "sunny", or "copper nose" as is common in Texas, is a species of North American freshwater fish, native to and commonly found in streams, rivers, lakes, ponds and ...
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Map
at ''Take Me Fishing'' website .
References
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category:Lakes of Polk County, Florida
category:Lakeland, Florida