Paint Creek Lake fishing: Sauger, Channel Catfish, Orangespotted Sunfish
Target species: Sauger, Channel Catfish, Orangespotted Sunfish
Boat: 3 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Paint Creek State Park - (Campground) Taylor Rd.Ramp.
The reservoir
Paint Creek Lake covers 1,179 acres in Ohio, across 2 counties: Highland and Ross. It is a reservoir: 90.8% of it is 26 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 41.6 feet (12.7 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.
Depth: down to 41.6 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 41.6 ft (12.7 m). 90.8% of the water is 26 feet or shallower. We hold 101 depth contours for this water, drawn from 29,677 soundings.
- 0–2 ft: 5.6% of the water
- 2–4 ft: 7.3% of the water
- 4–6 ft: 13.3% of the water
- 6–8 ft: 13.4% of the water
- 8–10 ft: 11.4% of the water
- 10–12 ft: 6.4% of the water
- 12–14 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 14–16 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 16–18 ft: 5.6% of the water
- 18–20 ft: 4.4% of the water
- 20–22 ft: 3.7% of the water
- 22–24 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 24–26 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 26–28 ft: 3.4% of the water
- 28–30 ft: 4.5% of the water
- 30–32 ft: 1.4% of the water
3 target fish, led by Sauger
- Sauger — Feeding water: 45–65°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Orangespotted Sunfish — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
Stocking: 9,940,713 fish, 1992–2021
Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife records list 9,940,713 fish released into this water from 1992 to 2021. The latest stocking on record is from 2021, more than three years ago.
- Channel Catfish: 100 in 1990
One more species on the stocking list.
3 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 3 boat ramps.
- Paint Creek State Park - (Campground) Taylor Rd.Ramp — Bainbridge, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. End of Taylor Road, Bainbridge 45612- · phone (937) 393-4284 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Paint Creek State Park - Deer Park Ramp — Bainbridge, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. Deer Park Road, Bainbridge 45612-9503 · phone (937) 365-1485 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
- Paint Creek State Park - Rattlesnake Ramp — Bainbridge, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. From SR753 go east on Snake Rd to the end, Bainbridge 45612- · phone (937) 393-4284 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
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.
- 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.
