William H Harsha Lake fishing: Muskellunge, Sunshine Bass

Target species: Muskellunge, Sunshine Bass
Boat: 6 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at East Fork State Park - Reisinger Road, 2 lanes.

The lake

William H Harsha Lake covers 1,992 acres in Ohio, across Clermont County. It is a lake: 90.5% of it is 75 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 105 feet (32 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Depth: down to 105 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 105 ft (32 m). 90.5% of the water is 75 feet or shallower. We hold 118 depth contours for this water, drawn from 43,676 soundings.

  • 0–5 ft: 5.8% of the water
  • 5–10 ft: 7.6% of the water
  • 10–15 ft: 8.6% of the water
  • 15–20 ft: 9.2% of the water
  • 20–25 ft: 8.1% of the water
  • 25–30 ft: 7.1% of the water
  • 30–35 ft: 8% of the water
  • 35–40 ft: 7% of the water
  • 40–45 ft: 4.7% of the water
  • 45–50 ft: 3.3% of the water
  • 50–55 ft: 3.6% of the water
  • 55–60 ft: 3.4% of the water
  • 60–65 ft: 3.7% of the water
  • 65–70 ft: 4.9% of the water
  • 70–75 ft: 5.5% of the water
  • 75–80 ft: 3.7% of the water
  • 80–85 ft: 4.3% of the water
  • 85–90 ft: 1.4% of the water
  • 90–95 ft: 0.1% of the water

2 target fish, led by Muskellunge

  • Muskellunge — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
  • Sunshine Bass — Feeding water: 70–80°F. Nonnative.

Also recorded here: White Perch.

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Stocking: 45,413,165 fish, 1993–2022

Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife records list 45,413,165 fish released into this water from 1993 to 2022. The latest stocking on record is from 2022, more than three years ago.

  • Muskellunge: 1,292,904 in 2008–2016

3 more species on the stocking list.

6 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 5 trailer ramps and 1 boat ramp.

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  • East Fork State Park - Reisinger Road — 2 lanes. Bethel, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. Reisinger Road, Bethel 45106- · phone (513) 734-2730 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
  • East Fork State Park - Tate Ramp — 2 lanes. Bethel, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. Bantam Road, Bethel 45106- · phone (513) 734-2730 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
  • East Fork State Park - North Shore — 1 lane. Bethel, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. Old ST. RT. 32, Bethel 45106- · phone (513) 734-2730 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov
  • East Fork State Park - Tunnel Mill — 1 lane. Williamsburg, ODNR Division of Wildlife District 5. Twin Bridges Road, Williamsburg 45176- · phone (937) 372-9261 · website wildlife.ohiodnr.gov
  • William H. Harsha Lake Dam Boat Ramp — 1 lane. Batavia, US Army Corps of Engineers. 2185 Slade Road, Batavia 45103- · phone (513) 797-6081 · website lrl.usace.army.mil/whl
  • East Fork State Park - Campground — Bethel, ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation. Old ST. RT. 32, Bethel 45106- · phone (513) 734-2730 · website parks.ohiodnr.gov

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 6 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 6 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.
  • 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.