Luck Lake

Type
Lake or reservoir, Alaska (West)
Designation
Catch and release · Special-regulation trout water
USGS gauges
None listed
Guides
1 nearby
Shops
1 nearby

Today on Luck Lake

No live reading for this water
Why there is no reading

Nothing live is published for this water, so there is no reading or verdict today. The readings section below says what we checked.

Regulations & access Guides & shops

Luck Lake is a lake or reservoir in Alaska, listed as Catch and release by Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish.

More about Luck Lake

Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish lists 1 species. 1 guide and 1 shop nearby are listed here.

Updated · Sources: ADF&G Southeast sport fishing regulations, Prince of Wales Island: catch-and-release for rainbow/steelhead or cutthroat trout, Arctic char/Dolly Varden, lake trout or Arctic grayling, ADF&G Southeast sport fishing regulations, Prince of Wales Island: unbaited artificial lures or flies only (all or part of the year)

Representative photograph of similar water; not a photograph of this place.
Representative photograph, not this water.
Where it is

Luck Lake is a lake or reservoir in Alaska.

No real-time gauge

No real-time gauge on this water. We found no active USGS gauge on Luck Lake or on its stream system within about 25 miles, and no dam operator publishes data for it. A missing gauge says nothing about the water itself. Find the gauges nearest Luck Lake

About these readings

Nothing live is published for this water; the note below says what we checked.

Where to fish

About this

Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Restrooms near Luck Lake

Restrooms near Luck Lake

Restrooms within 2 miles of Luck Lake in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

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    Photo credit

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    Sweetwater Lake

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    Photo credit

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    Eagle Creek

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    Photo credit

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Regulations

About this

Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.

2 official designations

Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under trout, salmon & steelhead.

The water on the map

About this

Measured from the National Hydrography Dataset (large scale) (U.S. Geological Survey, read 2026-11-04) for this water’s own mapped feature. Rounded figures; they describe the channel, not today’s conditions.

Surface area
509 acres
Watershed
Prince of Wales

Public land along it

About this

Areas the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), public access (U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project, read 2026-11-04) lists as owned or held in easement and open to the public, crossed by the mapped shoreline. Boundaries are mapped, not surveyed. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

4.9 of 4.9 mi of shoreline on public land

  • Tongass National ForestForest Service · 4.9 mi

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near Luck Lake

About this

Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

1 shop nearby

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. After them, fly-focused guides within 40 miles whose website does not name it. Distances are straight-line.

Shops: fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop’s website gives its location (within 60 miles); otherwise the shop is in one of the towns within 25 miles of the water.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species and hatches

About this

The species the agency lists here; presence varies by reach and season.

Listed by the state agency

  • Two anglers in rain gear standing in a boat on a grey river, one holding a long rod

    Steelhead

    Species guide

    Photo credit

    Winter steelhead fishing on the Skagit River, Washington (Doug Wilson, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). Photo: Doug Wilson, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

When the bugs come off

Plan a trip here

About this

None of our destination hubs is within 40 miles in a straight line. The trip planner builds a trip around the water itself: the guides and shops listed within 40 miles of it, its gauges and its nearest towns and airports.

No hub within 40 miles

Fish these abroad

About this

Matched on the fish the agencies list for both waters first, then the same water type, an official designation or flagship listing on both, and a similar mapped size where USGS hydrography covers both.

At most two waters per country. A shared fish is a listing, not a promise: presence varies by reach and season.

Like the Luck Lake? Same fish, overseas.

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    Photo credit

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    Río Santa Cruz

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    Same fish: steelhead

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    Same fish: steelhead

Fish it when it's winter here

Southern seasons open while ours close.

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Gear checklist

About this

A stillwater fly-fishing checklist for lakes and ponds: a 9–10 ft 5–6 weight rod, floating and intermediate lines, chironomids and leeches, and float-tube options, with estimated prices and where to buy.

An angler stands knee-deep in a calm lake with the rod bent, playing a trout

Lakes & stillwater

9′–10′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating + intermediate lines · Rainbow, brook and brown trout in lakes

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Videos for this water (3)

Watch: stillwater trout basics

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Chironomids, leeches and where fish hold in a lake.

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Fish Tales

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Luck Lake.

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Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

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A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the point for “Luck Lake” (lake) in the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Water type is our own classification.