Species | Rating | Sizes Possible | Baits, Method, & Location |
Crappie | No report | Up to 12 inches | Look for crappie around brush and vegetation. Anglers should target the brush piles and other submerged structure with minnows and jigs or nearby points and drop offs. Harvest regulations include 50/day creel limit. |
Channel Catfish | No report | Most in the 1 lb size range | Fish can be caught all over the lake. Try shad sides, shad gizzards, shrimp, nightcrawlers, and chicken liver. Harvest regulations is 5/day creel limit. |
Largemouth bass | No report | Up to 4 lbs | Fish are in typical summer pattern. Fish can be caught around any aquatic vegetation, off the rocky jetties, and around any cover in the water. Focus on submerged wood in the vegetation. Try topwater early and late and wacky worms, Ned Rigs, spinnerbaits, roadrunners, and crankbaits during mid day. Harvest regulations include a 15-inch minimum length limit and 5/day creel limit. |
Bluegill/Redear | No report | Up to 8 inches | Worms under a bobber and small jigs fished vertically around brush. There are no harvest restrictions at this time. There are no harvest restrictions at this time. |
Walleye | No report | Up to 4 lbs | Jig and night crawler should really work on the points and flats right now. Also try casting crankbaits and swimbaits over points, shelves, and along rip-rapped shorelines adjacent to deeper water. Harvest regulations include a 15-inch minimum length limit and 5/day creel limit. |
White Bass
| No report | Whites up to 17 inches | Trolling crankbaits or vertically fishing slab spoons over the tops of fish attractors or prominent windblown main lake points and shelves. Most of the larger white bass range from 12 to 17 inches.. |
Water temperature should be in the upper 70-low 80 range. We have received no reports from anglers & these are seasonal guidelines. You may call the Dodge City Regional office as 620-227-8609 to make a report. You may call the Dodge City Regional office as 620-227-8609 to make a report.
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!