Hillsdale Lake fishing: River Carpsucker, Black Bullhead, White Sucker
Target species: River Carpsucker, Black Bullhead, White Sucker
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Jayhawk Marina.
The lake
Hillsdale Lake covers 4,893 acres in Kansas, across Miami County. It is a lake: 91.4% of it is 36 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 45 feet (13.7 m). Our records hold 7 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 45 ft (13.7 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 91.4% of the water is 36 feet or shallower. We hold 88 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 16.8% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 11.6% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 10.9% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 8% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 5.2% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 4.7% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 5.6% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 3.9% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 5.5% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 3.9% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 3.7% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 0.9% of the water
3 target fish, led by River Carpsucker
- River Carpsucker — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
Also recorded here: Yellow Bullhead, Red Shiner, Fathead Minnow, Western Mosquitofish.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Jayhawk Marina — Paola, Jayhawk Marina, Inc. 26353 Jayhawker Drive, Paola 66071 · phone +1 913-557-9900 · website jayhawkmarina.com
The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 79°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2017. The latest reading is from 2017, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
What is hard here
Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS), University of Kansas — Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS), University of Kansas: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
