Loch Raven Reservoir fishing: Walleye, Bluegill, Brown Trout
Target species: Walleye, Bluegill, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Loch Raven Fishing Center, 1 lane.
The reservoir
Loch Raven Reservoir covers 2,197 acres in Maryland, across Baltimore County. It is a reservoir: 95.2% of it is 55 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 75.3 feet (23 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.

Depth: down to 75.3 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 75.3 ft (23 m). 95.2% of the water is 55 feet or shallower. We hold 127 depth contours for this water, drawn from 36,894 soundings.

- 0–5 ft: 17.7% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 9.7% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 7.7% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 7.7% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 7% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 7.9% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 6.2% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 3.6% of the water
- 60–65 ft: 0.5% of the water
- 65–70 ft: 0.6% of the water
- 70–74 ft: 0.2% of the water
3 target fish, led by Walleye
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
Also recorded here: Common Carp.

1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Loch Raven Fishing Center — 1 lane, restrooms. Phoenix, Baltimore County Dept. of Recreation and Parks. 12101 Dulaney Valley Road, Timonium, MD 21131, Phoenix · phone 410-887-7692; TDD 410-887-5319 · website baltimorecountymd.gov/departments/recreation/countyparks/fishingcenter · email [email protected]
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.
What is hard here
Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- Maryland Geological Survey — Maryland Geological Survey: depth soundings: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- USGS RESSED — USGS RESSED reservoir sedimentation database: 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.


















