Berlin Lake fishing: Muskellunge, Largemouth Bass, Walleye
Target species: Muskellunge, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Sunshine Bass
Boat: 4 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Berlin Reservoir Wildlife Ramp.
The reservoir
Berlin Lake covers 3,091 acres in Ohio, across 3 counties: Portage, Stark and Mahoning. It is a reservoir: 90.8% of it is 36 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 60 feet (18.3 m). Our records hold 7 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 60 ft (18.3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 90.8% of the water is 36 feet or shallower. We hold 162 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 21.3% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 9.9% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 14.2% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 14.5% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 7.1% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 4.7% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 4.6% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 3.1% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 2.6% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 2.3% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 2.4% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 2.7% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 1.9% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 1.6% of the water
- 45–48 ft: 0.8% of the water
- 48–51 ft: 1.6% of the water
- 51–54 ft: 0.9% of the water
6 target fish, led by Muskellunge
- Muskellunge — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Sunshine Bass — Feeding water: 70–80°F. Nonnative.
Also recorded here: Grass Carp.
Stocking: 121,821,619 fish, 1990–2022
Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife records list 121,821,619 fish released into this water from 1990 to 2022. The latest stocking on record is from 2022, more than three years ago.
- Walleye: 121,249,142 in 2003–2022
- Channel Catfish: 254,911 in 1975–2019
- Largemouth Bass: 159,932 in 1970–1977
- Smallmouth Bass: 41,237 in 1970–1974
- Muskellunge: 2,419 in 1970–1972
2 more species on the stocking list.
4 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 4 boat ramps.
- Berlin Reservoir Wildlife Ramp — Deerfield Township, ODNR Division of Wildlife-District Three. Bonner Road, Deerfield Township 44411- · phone (330) 644-2293 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Dutch Harbor — North Benton, Dutch Harbor. 640 Hartzell Road, North Benton 44449- · phone (330) 584-4174
- Les's Bait — Deerfield, Les's Bait. 10583 Cobb Road, Deerfield 44411- · phone (330) 584-6741
- Mill Creek Recreation Area — Berlin Center, US Army Corp of Engineers. 7400 Bedell Rd, Berlin Center 44401-9714 · phone (330) 547-3781 · website lrh.usace.army.mil
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 4 places in this list: 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 4 public ramps are on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- Ohio DNR — Ohio DNR: depth contours: 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.
- 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.
