There was a time when the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to Cazenovia Lake for one simple reason: there wasn’t much public access to the Madison County water.
But things have changed a lot over the past decade-plus, and those improvements in access prompted the DEC to actively manage the 1,164-acre lake known these days as a quality warmwater fishery that attracts a fair amount of angling attention.
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