Lake Milton fishing: Smallmouth Bass, Muskellunge, Largemouth Bass
Target species: Smallmouth Bass, Muskellunge, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Channel Catfish
Boat: 5 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Lake Milton Courtesy Docks.
The reservoir
Lake Milton covers 1,683 acres in Ohio, across Mahoning County. It is a reservoir: 90.7% of it is 24 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 35.7 feet (10.9 m). Our records hold 5 species for this water.
5 target fish, led by Smallmouth Bass
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Muskellunge — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
Depth: down to 35.7 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 35.7 ft (10.9 m). 90.7% of the water is 24 feet or shallower. We hold 70 depth contours for this water, drawn from 28,061 soundings.
- 0–2 ft: 6.4% of the water
- 2–4 ft: 5.2% of the water
- 4–6 ft: 9.4% of the water
- 6–8 ft: 9.7% of the water
- 8–10 ft: 9.8% of the water
- 10–12 ft: 10.4% of the water
- 12–14 ft: 9.4% of the water
- 14–16 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 16–18 ft: 7.3% of the water
- 18–20 ft: 7.7% of the water
- 20–22 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 22–24 ft: 3.7% of the water
- 24–26 ft: 4.6% of the water
- 26–28 ft: 3.3% of the water
- 28–30 ft: 1.5% of the water
Stocking: 18,137,948 fish, 1993–2022
Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife records list 18,137,948 fish released into this water from 1993 to 2022. The latest stocking on record is from 2022, more than three years ago.
- Walleye: 17,865,096 in 2002–2022
- Channel Catfish: 143,436 in 1972–1989
- Smallmouth Bass: 43,815 in 1988
- Muskellunge: 42,992 in 2000–2021
- Largemouth Bass: 42,609 in 1988
5 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 5 boat ramps.
- Lake Milton Courtesy Docks — Craig Beach, ODNR - Division of Parks and Recreation. Grandview Rd. & Glenwood Ave., Craig Beach 44429- · phone (330) 654-4989 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Lake Milton State Park - Marina — Lake Milton, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. Township Highway 18, Lake Milton 44429- · phone (330) 654-4989 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Lake Milton State Park - Miller Landing — Lake Milton, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. Mahoning Avenue, Lake Milton 44429- · phone (330) 654-4989 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Lake Milton State Park - Pointview Ramp — Lake Milton, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. Pointview Avenue, Lake Milton 44429- · phone (330) 654-4989 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Lake Milton State Park - Robinson Point Launch Ramp — Craig Beach, ODNR Div. Of Parks and Recreation. Jersey Street, Craig Beach 44429- · phone (330) 654-4989 · 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.
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.
- 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.
