3 waters
Photo: David Dugan, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Alabama
A 45,000 acre Chattahoochee River reservoir on the Alabama and Georgia line known for big largemouth and spring crappie.
Largemouth Bass · Crappie · Channel Catfish
Photo: benuski, CC BY-SA 2.0
An Alabama reservoir with largemouth bass, crappie, blue catfish, and sauger.
A Tennessee River impoundment where bass are the most popular fishery and a 111-pound former world record blue catfish was caught in 1996.
Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass · Blue Catfish
2 waters
Photo: Kjkolb, CC BY 2.5
Lakes & Reservoirs · Arizona
A Colorado River reservoir on the Arizona and California line, managed by AZGFD for largemouth and smallmouth bass, with striped bass.
Striped Bass · Largemouth Bass · Smallmouth Bass
Photo: ksblack99, Public domain
Arizona's largest lake inside the state, a desert reservoir with excellent largemouth bass and crappie fishing opportunities.
Largemouth Bass · Crappie
1 water
Photo: DronePhotographer, CC0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Arkansas
A 40,000 acre Corps of Engineers reservoir in the Ouachita National Forest with striped bass, largemouth and spotted bass, and crappie.
Striped Bass · Largemouth Bass · Crappie
5 waters
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Lakes & Reservoirs · California
The largest natural lake entirely within California, with largemouth bass, crappie and channel catfish.
Photo: Annette Teng, CC BY 3.0
A Ventura County reservoir with its own CDFW black bass rules; CDFW's contest records list largemouth bass over 15 pounds from Lake Casitas.
Largemouth Bass
Photo: Lara Farhadi, CC BY 2.0
A Sierra Nevada lake fished on either a California or a Nevada license, where NDOW says mackinaw (lake trout) are the most caught species and the Forest Service says the best fishing is in deep water from a boat.
Lake Trout · Rainbow Trout · Kokanee Salmon
Photo: Carol Underhill / U.S. Forest Service, CC BY 2.0
Lakes of the Mammoth Lakes Basin in California, with rainbow trout.
Rainbow Trout
Photo: DimiTalen, CC0
California's largest reservoir, where spotted bass are the most common bass and trout move to deeper, cooler water by late spring and early summer.
Spotted Bass · Rainbow Trout · Kokanee Salmon
Lakes & Reservoirs · Colorado
A 3,400-acre reservoir at 8,600 feet, known for fishing year-round.
Rainbow Trout · Brown Trout · Cutthroat Trout
Photo: Faith Warehime, CC BY-SA 4.0
Colorado's largest and deepest natural lake.
Lake Trout · Kokanee Salmon · Rainbow Trout
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0
A reservoir in Lake Pueblo State Park that CPW calls one of the top walleye, wiper and bass fisheries in the state.
Walleye · Largemouth Bass · Smallmouth Bass
Photo: Morrowlong, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Connecticut
A large western Connecticut lake that CT DEEP calls one of the state's best and most important fishery resources and one of the most popular lakes among tournament bass anglers, with largemouth and smallmouth bass and brown and rainbow trout.
Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass · Brown Trout
Photo: TampAGS, for AGS Media, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Florida
Part of the St. Johns River
A 46,000 acre lake on the St. Johns River in Putnam and Volusia counties, with jetties at its south end where the river enters.
Largemouth Bass · Hybrid Striped Bass · Crappie
Photo: Gabriel Vanslette, CC BY 3.0
A 9,406 acre lake the St. Johns River flows through, with the city of Sanford on its southern shore.
Largemouth Bass · Crappie · Hybrid Striped Bass
Photo: Maya Buhler / U.S. Forest Service, Public domain
Shallow 730-square-mile lake, nationally recognized for its largemouth bass and black crappie fisheries.
Largemouth Bass · Crappie · Bluegill
Photo: Eric Statzer, CC BY-SA 4.0
A lake south of Kissimmee and St. Cloud, with hydrilla, bulrush and pondweed beds and trophy largemouth.
A stump-filled impoundment of the Ocklawaha River known for giant bass.
Photo: Staff Sgt. Justin Morelli, U.S. Army, Public domain
Lakes & Reservoirs · Georgia
A 38,000-acre Corps of Engineers reservoir about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta, where spotted (Alabama) bass, crappie, striped bass and catfish are anglers' favorite targets.
Spotted Bass · Striped Bass · Crappie
Photo: Jamidwyer, CC BY-SA 2.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Idaho
Coeur d'Alene Lake, about 27,900 acres in Idaho's Panhandle, with cutthroat trout, Chinook salmon, kokanee, smallmouth and largemouth bass and northern pike.
Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass · Chinook Salmon
Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain
Idaho's largest lake, carved by glaciers, with Kamloops rainbow trout, lake trout, kokanee and walleye.
Rainbow Trout · Lake Trout · Kokanee Salmon
Lakes & Reservoirs · Illinois
A chain of connected glacial lakes in northern Illinois with muskie, walleye, and bass.
Walleye · Muskellunge · Largemouth Bass
Photo: Roy Luck, CC BY 2.0
Harbors and lakefront structure along Chicago with spring coho, summer kings, and perch.
Coho Salmon · Chinook Salmon · Yellow Perch
Photo: NPS / Victoria Stauffenberg, Public domain
Lakes & Reservoirs · Indiana
Lake Michigan at Michigan City, Indiana, with coho and Chinook salmon, steelhead, lake trout, brown trout, yellow perch, and smallmouth bass.
Coho Salmon · Chinook Salmon · Steelhead
Lake Wawasee in Kosciusko County, the largest natural lake in Indiana, with northern pike, largemouth bass, and bluegill.
Largemouth Bass · Bluegill · Northern Pike
Photo: Sarah Ewart, CC BY-SA 3.0
Patoka Lake, an 8,880-acre lake in Dubois, Orange, and Crawford counties in southern Indiana, with crappie, largemouth bass, and stocked hybrid striped bass.
Lakes & Reservoirs · Iowa
West Okoboji Lake in Dickinson County, northwest Iowa, near East Okoboji and Spirit Lake (Iowa's largest natural lake), with walleye, yellow perch, bass, bluegill, muskellunge, and northern pike.
Walleye · Yellow Perch · Smallmouth Bass
Lakes & Reservoirs · Kansas
A 9,550 acre reservoir 20 miles west of Wichita with wipers, walleye, saugeye, crappie and catfish.
Walleye · Crappie · Blue Catfish
Photo: Kansas City District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain
The largest lake in Kansas, a Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Republican River with walleye, crappie, and blue and channel catfish.
Walleye · Channel Catfish · Crappie
Photo: Saucy, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Kentucky
A western Kentucky reservoir with largemouth and smallmouth bass, crappie, catfish and bluegill.
Largemouth Bass · Crappie · Blue Catfish
A 50,250-acre Cumberland River reservoir in southern Kentucky with striped bass, smallmouth, largemouth and spotted bass, and walleye.
Striped Bass · Smallmouth Bass · Walleye
Photo: William L. Farr, CC BY 4.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Louisiana
A 181,600-acre reservoir on the Sabine River straddling the Texas and Louisiana line, with an excellent year-round largemouth bass fishery and good year-round crappie and catfish fishing.
Lakes & Reservoirs · Maine
Maine's largest lake, about 40 miles long, with wild brook trout and togue and stocked and wild landlocked salmon.
Brook Trout · Lake Trout · Landlocked Salmon
Photo: Sasha S, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Maryland
Maryland's largest impoundment, 3,900 acres in Garrett County, known for walleye, smallmouth bass, large panfish and a trophy northern pike fishery.
Smallmouth Bass · Walleye · Yellow Perch
Photo: Solarapex, CC BY 2.5
Lakes & Reservoirs · Massachusetts
A 24,012-acre water supply reservoir on the Swift River, one of two Massachusetts waters with naturally reproducing lake trout and landlocked salmon, with abundant smallmouth bass and white perch.
Lake Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Landlocked Salmon
13 waters
Lakes & Reservoirs · Michigan
Part of Saginaw Bay
The east side of Saginaw Bay from Quanicassee to Sebewaing and Bay Port, where anglers troll the slot for walleye, fish for yellow perch, and catch largemouth bass near shore.
Largemouth Bass · Walleye · Yellow Perch
Photo: Mara Koenig, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain
A large bay of northern Lake Michigan where the DNR lists lake trout most of the year, Chinook and coho salmon in summer and fall, and smallmouth bass in spring and summer.
Lake Trout · Chinook Salmon · Coho Salmon
Photo: Jessica Kosiara/USFWS, Public domain
Lake Huron waters at Alpena, where the DNR lists walleye in summer, lake trout from summer into fall, and Chinook and coho salmon in fall.
Walleye · Lake Trout · Chinook Salmon
Photo: National Park Service, Public domain
Lake Michigan off Frankfort, where the DNR lists browns, lake trout, and steelhead in winter and spring and salmon from summer into fall.
Chinook Salmon · Coho Salmon · Lake Trout
Photo: Alfonso Alvarez, CC BY 3.0
Lake Michigan off Grand Haven, where the DNR's roadmap for Muskegon and Grand Haven lists coho and steelhead from winter into fall, lake trout in winter, summer and fall, and Chinook from spring into fall.
Photo: Gregory Varnum, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lake Michigan off Manistee, where the DNR lists lake trout and steelhead in every season, brown trout in winter and spring, and Chinook and coho salmon from spring into fall.
Brown Trout · Chinook Salmon · Coho Salmon
Photo: GregMcCollum, CC0
Lake Michigan off St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, where the DNR lists salmon and steelhead through most of the year and yellow perch in summer and fall.
Chinook Salmon · Coho Salmon · Steelhead
Photo: Ralphmackiewicz, CC BY-SA 4.0
A Michigan lake with smallmouth and largemouth bass, muskellunge, walleye, northern pike, and yellow perch.
Smallmouth Bass · Muskellunge · Walleye
Photo: Steven Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lake Superior off Marquette, where the DNR lists lake trout, coho salmon, brown trout, and steelhead in every season.
Lake Trout · Coho Salmon · Brown Trout
Photo: San906, CC0
The northern Lake Michigan bay at Escanaba and Gladstone, where the DNR lists walleye in every season and smallmouth bass from spring through fall.
Walleye · Smallmouth Bass · Yellow Perch
Photo: Bkonrad, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Lake Michigan bay at Harbor Springs and Petoskey, where the DNR lists lake trout from spring into fall, Chinook and coho salmon in summer and fall, and smallmouth bass in spring and summer.
The lower end of Saginaw Bay off Bay City and Linwood, where Michigan DNR reports walleye trolled around Callahan Reef and Spoils Island and yellow perch caught at the Spark Plug buoys.
Walleye · Yellow Perch · Channel Catfish
Photo: Notorious4life, CC0
Lake Huron's Saginaw Bay, fished for walleye and yellow perch from Bay City and Linwood at the lower end of the bay and from Quanicassee, Sebewaing and Bay Port on its east side.
11 waters
Photo: Zhans33, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Minnesota
A 10,010-acre lake north of Brainerd, up to 80 feet deep, where DNR surveys find walleye, both bass, northern pike, and crappie.
Photo: Pete Markham, CC BY-SA 2.0
A 6,596-acre lake at Bemidji with a state park on its shore, where DNR surveys catch walleye, perch, northern pike, and muskellunge.
Walleye · Yellow Perch · Northern Pike
Photo: Tyler Vigen, CC BY-SA 4.0
A 14,206-acre lake of many connected bays in Hennepin County, with naturally reproducing northern pike and largemouth bass and stocked muskellunge.
Largemouth Bass · Muskellunge · Bluegill
Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0
Minnesota's largest lake, shared with Ontario and Manitoba, where walleye and sauger are the most targeted fish and ice fishing runs from early December to late March.
Walleye · Northern Pike · Yellow Perch
A natural lake on the Mississippi River, 21 miles from Red Wing to Alma, Wis., formed where the river backs up behind the Chippewa River's delta and known for walleye, sauger, yellow perch and white bass.
Bluegill · Crappie · Largemouth Bass
Photo: Sharon Mollerus, CC BY 2.0
Lake Superior along the shore from Duluth toward Two Harbors, with salmon near Duluth in the cold months and spring, lake trout most of the year, and shore casting for steelhead and browns.
Lake Trout · Coho Salmon · Chinook Salmon
A rocky Northwoods lake with about 340 miles of shoreline and 365 islands.
Walleye · Muskellunge · Smallmouth Bass
One of Minnesota's largest lakes, with walleye and big muskies.
Walleye · Muskellunge · Yellow Perch
Photo: Dougtone, CC BY-SA 2.0
Classic Minnesota walleye lake with a big ice fishing community and trophy smallmouth.
Walleye · Smallmouth Bass · Muskellunge
Photo: Lorie Shaull, CC BY 2.0
A 6,721-acre lake at Grand Rapids, over 100 feet deep in places, where the DNR's last full survey found northern pike, walleye, bass, and crappie.
Northern Pike · Walleye · Smallmouth Bass
Photo: Jeffkantor, CC BY-SA 3.0
A 227,604-acre lake on the Canada border near International Falls, where anglers target walleye, northern pike, and smallmouth bass.
Walleye · Northern Pike · Smallmouth Bass
4 waters
Photo: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY 3.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Mississippi
Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Yocona River ten miles south of Batesville. The world record white crappie came out of this water, and the summer pool holds crappie, largemouth bass, white bass, catfish and bream.
Crappie · Largemouth Bass · White Bass
Photo: NatalieMaynor, CC BY 2.0
A North Mississippi flood control reservoir and the state's largest lake, popular with crappie anglers.
Crappie · Largemouth Bass · Blue Catfish
Photo: Eskimo.the, CC BY 3.0
A Pearl River reservoir near Jackson with crappie, bass, and catfish.
Crappie · Largemouth Bass · Channel Catfish
Photo: Angelika Lindner, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
A large Corps of Engineers reservoir near Batesville with crappie, largemouth bass, and blue and channel catfish.
Photo: Mike Trinastich, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Missouri
A sprawling Ozark reservoir with docks lining the shore and strong bass and crappie fishing.
Photo: KTrimble, CC BY-SA 3.0
A reservoir shared by Missouri and Arkansas, with largemouth, spotted and smallmouth bass, crappie and walleye.
Largemouth Bass · Spotted Bass · Smallmouth Bass
Photo: Semipaw, CC BY 3.0
A timber-filled reservoir with crappie, largemouth bass, and blue, channel and flathead catfish.
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Montana
The largest natural freshwater lake by surface area in the western U.S., with lake trout and yellow perch.
Lake Trout · Yellow Perch
A Missouri River reservoir about 130 miles long, with walleye, northern pike, and lake trout.
Walleye · Lake Trout · Northern Pike
Lakes & Reservoirs · Nebraska
Nebraska's largest reservoir with white sand beaches, walleye, wipers, and white bass.
Walleye · White Bass · Smallmouth Bass
A Sandhills reservoir and Nebraska's top musky water.
Muskellunge · Walleye
Photo: Bureau of Reclamation, CC BY-SA 2.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Nevada
The huge Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam, famous for its striped bass, with largemouth and smallmouth bass and crappie.
Striped Bass · Largemouth Bass · Channel Catfish
Photo: Steve D, CC BY-SA 3.0
A long, narrow Colorado River reservoir below Hoover Dam with striped, smallmouth and largemouth bass, and rainbow trout stocked at Willow Beach in the cold upper lake.
Striped Bass · Smallmouth Bass · Rainbow Trout
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0
Managed by the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, which sets its rules and permits, and stocked by USFWS with the Pilot Peak strain of Lahontan cutthroat trout, the largest inland cutthroat trout in the world.
Cutthroat Trout
Photo: KimonBerlin, CC BY-SA 2.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · New Hampshire
New Hampshire's largest lake, with landlocked salmon, lake trout, and smallmouth and largemouth bass.
Smallmouth Bass · Lake Trout · Rainbow Trout
Photo: Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · New Jersey
New Jersey's largest reservoir and second-deepest lake, and one of only two waters in the state deep enough to hold lake trout.
Lake Trout · Brown Trout · Largemouth Bass
Photo: Katie Sekelsky, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · New Mexico
New Mexico's largest lake on the Rio Grande with bass, stripers, and catfish.
Largemouth Bass · Striped Bass · White Bass
Photo: Hayden Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · New York
A 28,451-acre Adirondack lake about 32 miles long and up to 187 feet deep, with lake trout, both bass, northern pike, and perch.
Lake Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass
Photo: wtrtwnguy, CC BY-SA 2.0
Charter and harbor fishing for kings, lake trout, and brown trout on the eastern lake.
Chinook Salmon · Lake Trout · Brown Trout
Photo: Joegrimes, Public domain
A big, shallow Central New York lake with strong walleye and perch fishing.
Photo: Prince Grobhelm, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · North Carolina
North Carolina's largest man-made lake near Charlotte, with largemouth bass, Alabama bass (long called spotted bass here) and Bodie bass, the hybrid striped bass NCWRC has stocked since 2013.
Spotted Bass · Largemouth Bass · Crappie
Lakes & Reservoirs · North Dakota
A large prairie lake near the city of Devils Lake with walleye, northern pike, and yellow perch, fished in open water and through the ice.
A huge Missouri River reservoir with walleye, pike, and a chinook salmon fishery.
Walleye · Northern Pike · Chinook Salmon
Lakes & Reservoirs · Ohio
A shallow western Ohio lake known for saugeye and crappie.
Crappie · Largemouth Bass · Saugeye
Photo: James St. John, CC BY 2.0
Western basin water around the Bass Islands, on the lake Ohio DNR calls the Walleye Capital of the World, with smallmouth bass around the islands.
Photo: Margaret Luzier, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain
A northeast Ohio reservoir with walleye and crappie.
Walleye · Crappie · Largemouth Bass
Photo: JDMcGreg, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Oklahoma
A 41,749 acre northeast Oklahoma reservoir with a renowned black bass fishery, crappie, hybrid striped bass and catfish.
Photo: USFWS, Public domain
A Red River reservoir on the Texas line and one of the few lakes where stripers reproduce naturally.
Striped Bass · Blue Catfish · Largemouth Bass
Photo: Tex Jobe, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain
Lakes & Reservoirs · Pennsylvania
The largest impoundment located entirely within Pennsylvania, with a stocked striped bass fishery.
Photo: Isis4563, Public domain
Lakes & Reservoirs · South Carolina
A big reservoir near Columbia that SCDNR says is best known for its largemouth bass and striped bass, with crappie and bluegill.
Photo: Marc Epstein/USFWS, Public domain
Lakes Marion and Moultrie, known for trophy blue catfish and landlocked stripers.
Blue Catfish · Striped Bass · Crappie
Photo: U.S. National Archives, Public domain
Lakes & Reservoirs · South Dakota
A huge Missouri River reservoir that South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks calls a destination walleye fishery.
Lakes & Reservoirs · Tennessee
A 36,200-acre Tennessee River reservoir between Dayton and Chattanooga, where the 15 lb, 3 oz state record largemouth bass was caught in 2015.
Largemouth Bass · Crappie · Smallmouth Bass
A clear, rocky lake that produced the world record smallmouth bass.
Smallmouth Bass · Walleye · Largemouth Bass
A Tennessee River lake on the Alabama and Mississippi line famous for smallmouth.
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5
An earthquake-formed cypress lake in northwest Tennessee with crappie and bluegill.
Crappie · Bluegill · Largemouth Bass
Lakes & Reservoirs · Texas
A Rio Grande reservoir on the Mexico border, long regarded as one of the best largemouth bass lakes in Texas.
Largemouth Bass · Channel Catfish
Photo: U.S. Forest Service, Public domain
A popular lake north of Houston with bass, hybrid stripers, and catfish.
Largemouth Bass · Channel Catfish · Bluegill
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain
The state's top trophy bass lake, with standing timber and more ShareLunker entries than any other Texas lake.
Photo: Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 4.0
Long Edwards Plateau reservoir through the Hill Country, with white bass runs in spring.
Largemouth Bass · White Bass · Guadalupe Bass
Photo: Ricraider, CC BY-SA 3.0
A 114,500-acre Angelina River reservoir in southeast Texas, where the black bass fishery is the most popular and crappie fishing is excellent year-round.
Largemouth Bass · White Bass · Crappie
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Utah
A 90-mile reservoir on the Utah and Wyoming line, known for large lake trout, kokanee, rainbow and cutthroat trout and smallmouth bass.
Lake Trout · Kokanee Salmon · Smallmouth Bass
Utah's premier warm water reservoir, impounded behind Glen Canyon Dam, with striped, smallmouth and largemouth bass and walleye.
Striped Bass · Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass
A Wasatch County reservoir with cutthroat trout, rainbow trout and kokanee, one of the best kokanee fisheries in Utah.
Cutthroat Trout · Rainbow Trout · Kokanee Salmon
Photo: Annacecchini, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Vermont
Smallmouth and largemouth in the same day, plus pike, salmon, and lake trout.
Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass · Northern Pike
Photo: 23penguin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Virginia
A Roanoke River reservoir known for striped bass and tournament bass fishing.
Lakes & Reservoirs · Washington
A large lake between Seattle and Bellevue, open to fishing year-round, whose principal game fish are coastal cutthroat trout, largemouth and smallmouth bass, yellow perch and black crappie.
Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass · Yellow Perch
Photo: stevevoght, CC BY-SA 2.0
A reservoir about seven miles south of Moses Lake, open year-round, where most anglers fish for walleye, smallmouth bass and largemouth bass.
Walleye · Largemouth Bass · Yellow Perch
Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain
Lakes & Reservoirs · West Virginia
West Virginia's largest lake, with clear water and a rocky shoreline, home to smallmouth and largemouth bass and walleye.
10 waters
Lakes & Reservoirs · Wisconsin
A 14,593-acre Sawyer County flowage east of Hayward with abundant walleye and common musky, bass, and northern pike, reached from six public landings.
The Lake Michigan bay from the city of Green Bay up the Door County shore, where state surveys find plenty of walleye including trophies, trophy-sized musky, and smallmouth bass.
Part of Green Bay
Green Bay's east shore from Bayshore Park to Little Sturgeon Bay and Sawyer Harbor in Door County, whose smallmouth bass fishery DNR calls well known for its outstanding abundance and robust size of fish.
Muskellunge · Smallmouth Bass · Walleye
Green Bay's west shore, from the lower bay at the Fox River and Duck Creek north to Oconto and Marinette counties, part of the Green Bay system where DNR surveys find large numbers of walleye as well as trophy walleye and trophy-sized musky.
Smallmouth Bass · Walleye · Muskellunge
Photo: Djnichols62, CC BY-SA 4.0
A 5,139-acre Sawyer County lake near Hayward, up to 90 feet deep, with abundant northern pike and common musky, smallmouth, and walleye.
Northern Pike · Muskellunge · Smallmouth Bass
Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0
Lake Michigan off Algoma in Kewaunee County, where state creel surveys counted more than 42,000 Chinook salmon kept in 2023, plus rainbows and coho.
Chinook Salmon · Rainbow Trout · Coho Salmon
Lake Michigan off Manitowoc and Two Rivers, where state creel surveys counted more than 17,000 Chinook salmon kept in 2023, plus rainbows, coho, and lake trout.
Photo: Yinan Chen, CC BY 3.0
Lake Michigan off Sheboygan, where state creel surveys counted more than 13,000 Chinook salmon kept in 2023, along with coho, lake trout, and rainbows.
Photo: Fondycardinals, CC BY-SA 4.0
Wisconsin's largest inland lake with walleye, white bass, and a sturgeon spearing tradition.
Walleye · Yellow Perch · White Bass
Harbor and river mouth fishing for kings and coho on Lake Michigan.
Chinook Salmon · Coho Salmon
Photo: Charles Willgren, CC BY 2.0
Lakes & Reservoirs · Wyoming
A central Wyoming reservoir with walleye and trout above the Wind River Canyon.
Walleye · Rainbow Trout · Sauger
