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Get your heart pumping on the glorious whitewater of Red Clay Creek, and after a long day outdoors Quality Inn University is a splendid place to spend a night or two. Sunset Lake is a wonderful spot to visit for more than one day, Delaware Motel and RV Park is a wonderful spot to camp nearby, and Sunset Lake is a place with many visitors from Dover. This lake is so wonderful. Some nearby water includes Belltown Run; Lums Pond State Park is a great local campground.
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| | On a perfect day you can check out Becks Pond, a swamp close to Sunset Lake, and a perfect nearby hotel is Howard Johnson Inn & Suites & Conference Center.
This lake is so wonderful. There's always Sunset Lake Dam to have a look at near Sunset Lake. Lakes are tremendous; Lums Pond is a lake that's near Sunset Lake. So much fun stuff to do here at Sunset Lake, too good to be true. Christiana Country Club is a fine golf course close by; you're perhaps hooked | |
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on lakes, Becks Pond is one of those close by.
Iron Hill is delightful and can be distinguished from Sunset Lake, and there's whitewater on Big Elk Creek for all you adrenaline people. Much precipitation falls at Sunset Lake;
July is the month that gets the most rain while February is usually the driest month. Through the months of summer highs here at Sunset Lake reach the 80's. For the duration of the moonlight hours it's typically in the 60's. Highs during the wintertime are typically in the 40's, and winter nights come with lows in the 20's to Sunset Lake.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 39.62472
Longitude: -75.72556
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| These outdoors activities are available near Sunset Lake. |
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Big Elk Creek, Cecil CountyCounty, 9 miles away
Class I-II - 12.6 miles long (Pennsylvania Route 341 to Elkton) |
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Red Clay Creek, New Castle CountyCounty, 9 miles away
Class I-II - 10.5 miles long (Marshall Bridge Road to Route 41) |
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Brandywine Creek, New Castle CountyCounty, 14 miles away
Class III - 8 miles long (Thompson Bridge Road to Market Street) |
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Lums Pond, New Castle CountyCounty, 4 miles away |
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Noxontown Lake
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... probed with spinnerbait and buzzbaits first for active fish, but it is definitely a jig or tube area. Work all this cover, (and there will be a lot of it), with a 3/8 oz. Black/blue jig with a Zoom or Uncle Josh trailer. Work each limb on the laydowns, and move in to the bases, before moving on to the next. The trees extend out over the water from the shore in many areas, so you need to practice skipping, and pitching, as well as flipping, if you want to work this lake properly. Work these lures all the way to the next cove on your right, then move up the lake about 200 yards, and start over again. These areas all hold large bass in the 4-8 pound category, and could come anywhere along this shore. Bass in excess of 9 pounds were caught at Noxontown in the past, which is why it received so much pressure. Very large bass still reside here, but the numbers have declined over the years. In 1999, I caught and released a 10. 1 pound largemouth from Noxontown, that was just ounces off the state record. The primary forage is panfish, white perch, and shad, but there are a good number of Gol... |
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