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Looking for some information on Lower Beverley Lake. I have a friend who's thinking about purchasing a cottage on the lake. I've never been on the lake myself, so I was wondering is anyone might have any information on the lake with respect to type of water, conditions, size, nearby towns, etc.

They are mostely just wondering if anyone has ever experienced anything negative on the lake. I hear it does have zebra muscles, which can be a pain. Anything else?

Your friend may have already visited this site, but it's a start if he hasn't...

http://www.lbla.net/

Lower Beverley is located 25 miles northwest of Brockville on Hwy. 42. The village of Delta is on the lake. You can access the village of Lyndhurst from the lake too. Good launch facilities are found in Delta at the township park and in Lyndhurst. It is connected to the Rideau at Whitefish Lake via Morton Creek. You cannot get to the Rideau from it. The creek is not navigable as you get towards the Rideau and there is a dam at Morton keeping the Rideau from spilling down its natural course to Gananoque. There is dam on the southern outlest of the lake at Lyndurst and on the inlet in Delta.

All the lakes down here have zebra mussels.

It is on the Gananoque River system. It is a medium sized lake, about 1,500 acres. The lake has two main basins. The main basin runs north and south and has some deeper water in the south end. They tried stocking splake here a few years ago with limited or no success. The north end is shallower. The main lake has several islands with rock reefs.

The west arm of the lake is called Oak Bay but is almost like a seperate lake. It is very shallow and the much of the shoreline is cattails and rushes.

The lake has superb bass fishing, mainly for largemouth. Lots of different water to fish. Great shallow water slop and pad fishing, thick deepwater coontail beds and weedlines. I would rate it on par with Dog Lake. It had a reputation as a big fish lake at one time, six pounders were common. I've caught several from the lake myself. There are pike but fishing for them is not very good. There are big perch. No walleye or trout present.

It is a fairly quiet lake without alot of angling pressure. As far as scenery there are prettier lakes down here but it is still a nice lake. Occasionally, about once a year - you'll get wave action and fluctuating water levels working that will release swamp goop from the many bogs around the lake. You'll see it floating and is unsightly and a pain but is gone in a few days.

Cottages on the lake are grouped in little colonies wherever hard shorelines are found. Most are pretty low key and rustic. Not like some of the spreads on nearby Charleston. Values obviously are alot cheaper to buy than Charleston. Most of the roads around the lake are accessible year round so there are quite a few year round residences. The biggest boat on the lake would be a big 'toon or 200 HP bass boat.

I don't think there is too much to add to ganman's post, he's covered it quite well.
There are a lot of different types of structure for a bass fisherman packed into a smallish lake for sure. There are a lot of panfish in the lake too, but with the relative shallow depth of the lake they tend to get quite wormy.
I've never fished Upper Beverley, but I've herd it is a really good lake to fish too, but a lot of caution should be used on Upper Beverley because there is a lot of "structure" just under the water.
The Delta Fair gets hoppin' and draws a big crowd, so if your friend is looking for peace & quiet he may want to consider looking away from the town of Delta.
The little "canal" or stream from Lyndhurst to the lake itself is a great spot to fish, and would be a dream spot for our yak brothers to fish.

Actually it might not be a bad spot for a Fish-Hawk get together with the campground there.

DropShot'r

I have a cottage un Upper Beverly but have fished Lower a few times. Lower is definetly better fishing than Upper, Upper has become a real clone lake, bunch of 1 -2 pounders. Lower definetly has some larger size bass and the occasional pike. Very nice area though, the little town of Delta has everything you will need ie beer/liquor store, grocery store, gas station even a chip truck. The annual plowing matches are the held in the next town over every year and I think they get about 50,000 visitor a year. To make a long story short a very nice area and very nice little lake.

My perception of Upper Beverly is that before they dammed the creek there was no lake. It shows all the signs of an old infertile resorvoir you see down south. The rich topsoil had been flushed away and all that is left is an infertile body of water with a silt bottom - no weeds, no cover and no feed which = few and small bass. Bass prefer thick green weeds over petrified stumps all day long.

One of the most amazing catches I've seen in my life was a catch by old Bud Donald - the former super of the Lower Beverley Township Park in Delta. At the entrance booth Bud tacked a yellowed old pic of himself from the 1960's holding a 6 1/4, 6 1/2 and a 6 3/4 lbs bass, all taken one evening.....ah the good ol' days!

A can't miss for anyone fishing near Beverley is Jim Wing's Baitshop in Lyndhurst. You don't go there for the deals or tackle selection but more to pay homage to an old country bait, tackle store of yesteryear. Buy a few of the overpriced plugs and lures you'll feel better for it.