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Boat ramps near Canton
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Boat ramps near Canton

12 stops6 watersUpdated Nov 6

79 public boat ramps on published waters near Canton.

Distances are straight-line from downtown Canton; below are the 12 closest, grouped by water.

Nimisila Reservoir

Recorded in Nimisila Reservoir: Sauger, Common Carp, Warmouth, and Bluegill.

Surveyed depths in Nimisila Reservoir reach 32 ft.

  1. 1Portage Lakes State Park - C 6: boat ramp on Nimisila Reservoir, ≈ 11.8 mi from downtown.
  2. 2Portage Lakes State Park - CG: boat ramp on Nimisila Reservoir, ≈ 12.4 mi from downtown.
  3. 3Portage Lakes State Park - SM2: boat ramp on Nimisila Reservoir, ≈ 12.8 mi from downtown.
  4. 4Portage Lakes State Park - C 1: boat ramp on Nimisila Reservoir, ≈ 13.2 mi from downtown.

Portage Lakes

Recorded in Portage Lakes: Spottail Shiner, Common Carp, Redear, and Largemouth Bass.

Surveyed depths in Portage Lakes reach 34 ft.

  1. 5Old State Park: boat ramp on Portage Lakes, ≈ 15 mi from downtown.
  2. 6Portage Lakes State Park - Turkeyfoot: boat ramp on Portage Lakes, ≈ 15.1 mi from downtown.
  3. 9Portage Lakes State Park - North Reservoir: boat ramp on Portage Lakes, ≈ 16.5 mi from downtown.

Springfield Lake

Recorded in Springfield Lake: Common Carp, Channel Catfish, Walleye, and Largemouth Bass.

Surveyed depths in Springfield Lake reach 30 ft.

  1. 7Lakemore Park - James B Dodds Lakefront Park: boat ramp on Springfield Lake, ≈ 15.9 mi from downtown.
  2. 10Springfield Lake - Springfield Ramp: boat ramp on Springfield Lake, ≈ 16.7 mi from downtown.

Dale Walborn Reservoir

Recorded in Dale Walborn Reservoir: Channel Catfish, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, and Rainbow Trout.

Surveyed depths in Dale Walborn Reservoir reach 22 ft.

  1. 8Walborn Marina - Stark Co. Parks: boat ramp on Dale Walborn Reservoir, ≈ 15.9 mi from downtown.

Deer Creek Reservoir

Recorded in Deer Creek Reservoir: Channel Catfish, Pumpkinseed, Yellow Perch, and Western Mosquitofish.

Surveyed depths in Deer Creek Reservoir reach 20 ft.

  1. 11Deer Creek Reservoir-Stark Co.Parks: boat ramp on Deer Creek Reservoir, ≈ 17.9 mi from downtown.

Mogadore Reservoir

Recorded in Mogadore Reservoir: Muskellunge, Channel Catfish, Largemouth Bass, and Warmouth.

Surveyed depths in Mogadore Reservoir reach 25 ft.

  1. 12Ticknor Road Boat Ramp: boat ramp on Mogadore Reservoir, ≈ 18.1 mi from downtown.

When the fish bite here

By our bite calendar, November is a slow month around Canton for the fish recorded at these stops — the bars on each card show when each one picks up.

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Where this guide comes from

Every sentence here is assembled from the data on the Canton fishing page: road drive times where a route was built (≈ marks straight-line distances), access points from state registries, the species recorded in each water and our bite calendar, adjusted for latitude. Nothing is written by hand or generated by AI.

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