Burr Oak Reservoir fishing: Largemouth Bass, Muskellunge, Walleye
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Muskellunge, Walleye, Redear, Bluegill, Channel Catfish, Yellow Perch
Boat: 5 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Burr Oak State Park - Docks # 1.
The reservoir
Burr Oak Reservoir covers 656 acres in Ohio, across 2 counties: Morgan and Athens. It is a reservoir: 92.6% of it is 22 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 35.7 feet (10.9 m); at the dam, USGS RESSED gives 59 feet (18 m) at full pool. Our records hold 9 species for this water.
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Muskellunge — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Redear — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
Also recorded here: Sauger, Pumpkinseed.
Depth: down to 35.7 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 35.7 ft (10.9 m). USGS RESSED gives 59 ft (18 m) at the dam at full pool: a measured figure, not a survey map. 92.6% of the water is 22 feet or shallower. We hold 74 depth contours for this water, drawn from 14,457 soundings.
- 0–2 ft: 10.7% of the water
- 2–4 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 4–6 ft: 8.1% of the water
- 6–8 ft: 8% of the water
- 8–10 ft: 8.1% of the water
- 10–12 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 12–14 ft: 8.7% of the water
- 14–16 ft: 9.4% of the water
- 16–18 ft: 7.4% of the water
- 18–20 ft: 8.6% of the water
- 20–22 ft: 9.8% of the water
- 22–24 ft: 4.7% of the water
- 24–26 ft: 1.7% of the water
- 26–28 ft: 1% of the water
Stocking: 3,633,360 fish, 1976–2020
Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife records list 3,633,360 fish released into this water from 1976 to 2020. The latest stocking on record is from 2020, more than three years ago.
- Channel Catfish: 537,397 in 1979–2020
- Muskellunge: 454,745 in 1993–1994
- Walleye: 212,500 in 1970–1977
- Bluegill: 100,000 in 1971
- Largemouth Bass: 64,162 in 1971–1974
- Yellow Perch: 30 in 1981
2 more species on the stocking list.
5 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 5 boat ramps.
- Burr Oak State Park - Docks # 1 — Homer, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. Dock 1 Road, Homer 45732- · phone (740) 767-3570 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Burr Oak State Park - Docks # 2 — Glouster, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. State Route 78 to County Rd. 108 to County Rd. 111, Glouster 45732- · phone (740) 767-3570 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Burr Oak State Park - Docks # 3 — Glouster, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. State Road 78 to County Road 14, Glouster 45732- · phone (740) 767-3570 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Burr Oak State Park - Docks # 4 — Glouster, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. 5250 Beach Road, Glouster 45732- · phone (740) 767-3570 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Burr Oak State Park - Lodge/Cabin Boat Launch — Glouster, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. 10220 Burr Oak Lodge Road, Glouster 45732- · phone (740) 767-3570 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 5 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.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 71°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.8. These readings span 2022–2023.
What is hard here
Only 5 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.
- 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.
