Deer Creek Reservoir fishing: Channel Catfish, Pumpkinseed, Yellow Perch
Target species: Channel Catfish, Pumpkinseed, Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Deer Creek Reservoir-Stark Co.Parks.
The reservoir
Deer Creek Reservoir covers 318 acres in Ohio, across Stark County. It is a reservoir: 98.1% of it is 18 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 20 feet (6.1 m). Our records hold 5 species for this water.
Depth: down to 20 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 20 ft (6.1 m). 98.1% of the water is 18 feet or shallower. We hold 47 depth contours for this water, drawn from 5,647 soundings.
- 0–1 ft: 9.2% of the water
- 1–3 ft: 8.2% of the water
- 3–4 ft: 5.3% of the water
- 4–5 ft: 5.9% of the water
- 5–6 ft: 6.9% of the water
- 6–7 ft: 6.5% of the water
- 7–8 ft: 5.2% of the water
- 8–9 ft: 6.2% of the water
- 9–10 ft: 5.6% of the water
- 10–11 ft: 5.3% of the water
- 11–12 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 12–13 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 13–14 ft: 5.5% of the water
- 14–16 ft: 7.9% of the water
- 16–18 ft: 9.2% of the water
- 18–19 ft: 2% of the water
4 target fish, led by Channel Catfish
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
- Green Sunfish — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
Also recorded here: Western Mosquitofish.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Deer Creek Reservoir-Stark Co.Parks — Atwater, Stark Co. Park District. Price Street NE, Atwater 44201- · phone (330) 477-3552 · website starkparks.com
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
- Ohio DNR — Ohio DNR: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.


















