| Species | Rating | Size | Baits, Method & Location |
| Crappie | Excellent | Up to 15 inches | Fishing jigs and minnows around the deeper brush. |
| Largemouth Bass | Good | Up to 5.5 lbs. | Casting soft plastics, suspending swimbaits and stick baits around laydown trees and overhanging brush along sun-warmed shore lines on warmer days. |
| Sunfish | Good | Up to 8 inches | Nightcrawler pieces vertically fished on a jig head or fished under a bobber around deeper brush. |
| Saugeye | Excellent | Up to 7 lbs. | Casting shad-imitating swimbaits along deeper, rip rapped shorelines or over areas possessing rapid depth changes to the bottom. |
| Trout | Good | 2/lb. average | We made the final stocking of the 2024/2025 trout season on 2-26-2025 with the release of approximately 1,200 rainbow trout. Still fishing various baits such as power bait, worms, marshmallows, and corn, alone or in combination, is popular. Other anglers prefer presenting flys like prince, pheasant tail, and pistol pete nymphs using a fly rod or spin cast rod and casting bubble. |
| General Comments | |||
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| Since fishing reports are harder to come by in winter, the above report will be generic giving general locations and methods typically effective this time of year and won't be updated on a weekly basis unless the bite or ice changes dictate an update. ICE REPORT-As of 3-7-2025, the State Lake and Barrel Springs trout pond are ice free. Release all saugeye less than 18 inches and largemouth bass less than 15 inches. Please discard of leftover bait in a trash can, even baitfish. Remember it is illegal to release any fish into public water unless it was taken from that water! | |||
