Clendening Lake fishing: Muskellunge, Largemouth Bass, Walleye
Target species: Muskellunge, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, Blue Catfish, Flathead Catfish, Sauger
Boat: 3 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Clendening Marina.
The reservoir
Clendening Lake covers 1,748 acres in Ohio, across Harrison County. It is a reservoir: 92.7% of it is 24 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 36 feet (11 m). Our records hold 7 species for this water.
7 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.
- Blue Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Flathead Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Sauger — Feeding water: 45–65°F.
Depth: down to 36 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 36 ft (11 m). 92.7% of the water is 24 feet or shallower. We hold 125 depth contours for this water, drawn from 35,837 soundings.
- 0–2 ft: 12.1% of the water
- 2–4 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 4–6 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 6–8 ft: 9.3% of the water
- 8–10 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 10–12 ft: 9.4% of the water
- 12–14 ft: 10.1% of the water
- 14–16 ft: 6.7% of the water
- 16–18 ft: 7.2% of the water
- 18–20 ft: 5.1% of the water
- 20–22 ft: 4.6% of the water
- 22–24 ft: 3.9% of the water
- 24–26 ft: 2.6% of the water
- 26–28 ft: 2.1% of the water
- 28–30 ft: 1.9% of the water
- 30–32 ft: 0.7% of the water
- 32–34 ft: 0.1% of the water
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 77°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.6. These readings span 2017–2018. The latest reading is from 2018, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
Stocking: 14,054,854 fish, 1992–2022
Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife records list 14,054,854 fish released into this water from 1992 to 2022. The latest stocking on record is from 2022, more than three years ago.
- Blue Catfish: 286,554 in 2015–2021
- Walleye: 94,060 in 1970–1986
- Flathead Catfish: 59,694 in 1973–1980
- Smallmouth Bass: 37,360 in 1975–1977
- Largemouth Bass: 13,000 in 1972–1973
- Muskellunge: 5,060 in 1970–1980
One more species on the stocking list.
3 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 3 boat ramps.
- Clendening Marina — Freeport, Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District. 79100 Bose Road, Freeport 43973- · phone (740) 658-3691 · website mwcd.org
- Clendening Ramp — Nottingham, Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District. Simpson Road, off ST. RT. 799, Nottingham 44699- · phone (330) 343-6647 · website mwcd.org
- County Rd 6 Ramp — Tippecanoe, Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District. County Hwy #6, Tippecanoe 44699- · phone (330) 343-6647 · website mwcd.org
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 3 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 3 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.
- USACE CWMS — USACE CWMS elevation-area curves: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
- EPA NLA — EPA National Lakes Assessment: 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.
