Tuttle Creek Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, White Sucker, Flathead Catfish
Target species: Largemouth Bass, White Sucker, Flathead Catfish, River Carpsucker, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, White Crappie
The reservoir
Tuttle Creek Lake covers 11,806 acres in Kansas, across 2 counties: Pottawatomie and Riley. It is a reservoir: 93.9% of it is 42 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 50 feet (15.2 m). Our records hold 13 species for this water.
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Flathead Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- River Carpsucker — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- White Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Northern Pike, Striped Bass, Walleye, White Bass, Gizzard Shad, Fathead Minnow.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 50 ft (15.2 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 93.9% of the water is 42 feet or shallower. We hold 144 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 20.8% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 3.5% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 3.3% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 3.9% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 4.6% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 4.3% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 7.3% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 3.5% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 3.2% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 5.3% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 14.1% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 1.9% of the water
- 45–48 ft: 1.3% of the water
- 48–50 ft: 2.9% of the water
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 78°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8. These readings span 2018–2026.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 11,806 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle.
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.
- USACE CWMS — USACE CWMS elevation-area curves: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
- 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.
