Bay Lake Fishing Spot
- Acreage: 600
- Max Depth: 12'
- Last Modified By: vinny60 on 09/12/09 09:54 PM
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Fishing for all species is strictly catch and release, and you do not need to obtain a Florida fishing license. Today there is year-round guided fishing available, and the catching generally is quite good.
Bay Lake Description
Located in Orange County, Florida in the north end of the Walt Disney World property, in the Disney-controlled city of Bay Lake, Florida and immediately to the east of the Magic Kingdom. The lake connects with the Disney made Seven Seas Lagoon.Indeed, if you choose to fish at Bay Lake for just the first two hours of the day, as many do, you can join your friends or family, and tens of thousands of other vacationers shortly after the theme park's gates open. By then you'll have stories and photos to show of a few of the bass you've caught in the 600 acres of water that composes Seven Seas Lagoon (abutting the Floridian and Polynesian Resorts, as well as the Magic Kingdom Park) and Bay Lake (abutting the Contemporary Resort and Wilderness Lodge). Although you would never know by looking at it or fishing on it, Bay Lake was drained with pumps and its bottom layer of muck scooped out. Next to it, more than 7 million cubic yards of earth were dug up for the lagoon and used as a foundation for the Magic Kingdom Park. Sand from underneath the muck was used to line 4½ miles of beach around the newly created 172-acre Seven Seas Lagoon. Bay Lake and the lagoon were then refilled with water from the surrounding wetlands and stocked with more than 70,000 fish. Bay Lake is a body of water about one mile across.