Lake Profile

In the recent past, Punderson Lake in northeast Ohio was a place to go if you wanted to catch a rainbow trout.
And, it was a pretty good option, but the ODNR Division of

Several years ago, O’Shaughnessy Reservoir in Delaware County in central Ohio showed the best catch rate for largemouth bass of any lake fished on Ohio’s bass tournament circuit.
A bass 12 inches or larger

“It’s one of the old canal lakes, so it’s fairly shallow and narrow,” he said. “There’s a lot of good structure in the lake. And, there’s a decent spillway fishery below the dam. There’s a

Within the upper echelon of Ohio’s finest saugeye and smallmouth bass lakes is 2,310-acre Piedmont Lake, according to the DNR Division of Wildlife.
Piedmont lies within Ohio’s Wildlife District 4 and spreads across Guernsey,

If you’re looking to catch some good size largemouth bass, anglers would be well suited to focus their efforts on Clear Fork Reservoir in north-central Ohio.
Mike Wilkerson, fish management supervisor for the DNR

An impoundment so large that it sprawls over two states, Pymatuning Reservoir consumes up to 17,088 surface water acres.
Pymatuning is huge, so large, in fact, that back in World War II a Cleveland-based

Indian Lake in north-central Ohio is one of those Buckeye State fishing holes that produces year around.
That includes ice fishing, and Indian is one of the first places in Ohio where anglers flock

“The sunfish and redear fishing at Lake Hope is excellent,” he said. “There are very good numbers of fish and the size of fish is the best in the area. Anglers can expect to catch

The two reservoirs in this northwest Ohio city supply nice, clear drinking water to the city of Delta, but neither will make anyone’s list of top fisheries.
Relatively small at 39 and 50 acres,