Laurel Hill Lake fishing: Redear, Bluegill, Blue Catfish

Target species: Redear, Bluegill, Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Laurel Hill Lake, 2 lanes.

The lake

Laurel Hill Lake covers 290 acres in Tennessee, across Lawrence County. It is a lake. Our records hold 5 species for this water.

Stocking: 295,238 fish, 2023–2026

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency records list 295,238 fish released into this water from 2023 to 2026.

  • Bluegill: 162,717 in 2026
  • Channel Catfish: 38,478 in 2023–2026
  • Blue Catfish: 17,484 in 2025–2026

One more species on the stocking list.

Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP 2021
USDA Farm Service Agency, NAIP 2021 aerial imagery (USGS The National Map) · Public domain

4 target fish, led by Redear

  • Redear — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Blue Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.

Also recorded here: Grass Carp.

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps.

  • Laurel Hill Lake — 2 lanes, daylight hours, lit for night fishing, restrooms. TWRA.
  • Laurel Hill Agency Lake — 1 lane, daylight hours, restrooms. TWRA.

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 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 2 public ramps are on file, so the launch decides where you fish.