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Boat ramps near Wheeling
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Boat ramps near Wheeling

12 stops4 watersUpdated Nov 6

19 public boat ramps on published waters near Wheeling.

Distances are straight-line from downtown Wheeling; below are the 12 closest, grouped by water.

Piedmont Lake

Recorded in Piedmont Lake: Sauger, Common Carp, Banded Killifish, and Muskellunge.

Surveyed depths in Piedmont Lake reach 32 ft.

  1. 1Kirkwood Ramp: boat ramp on Piedmont Lake, ≈ 23.4 mi from downtown.
  2. 2Reynolds Road Launch Ramp: boat ramp on Piedmont Lake, ≈ 24.3 mi from downtown.
  3. 3Piedmont Marina: boat ramp on Piedmont Lake, ≈ 27.6 mi from downtown.

Clendening Lake

Recorded in Clendening Lake: Sauger, Walleye, Largemouth Bass, and Flathead Catfish.

Surveyed depths in Clendening Lake reach 36 ft.

  1. 4Clendening Ramp: boat ramp on Clendening Lake, ≈ 28.6 mi from downtown.
  2. 5Clendening Marina: boat ramp on Clendening Lake, ≈ 29.2 mi from downtown.
  3. 9County Rd 6 Ramp: boat ramp on Clendening Lake, ≈ 32.5 mi from downtown.

Tappan Lake

Recorded in Tappan Lake: Sauger, Goldfish, Walleye, and Largemouth Bass.

Surveyed depths in Tappan Lake reach 28 ft.

  1. 6Tappan Lake Park Launch Ramp: boat ramp on Tappan Lake, ≈ 30.3 mi from downtown.
  2. 7Tappan Marina: boat ramp on Tappan Lake, ≈ 31.5 mi from downtown.
  3. 8Tappan Fire Station Ramps: boat ramp on Tappan Lake, ≈ 31.6 mi from downtown.
  4. 10Tappan Route 250 Launch Ramp: boat ramp on Tappan Lake, ≈ 32.7 mi from downtown.

Salt Fork Lake

Recorded in Salt Fork Lake: Redear, Walleye, Channel Catfish, and Muskellunge.

Surveyed depths in Salt Fork Lake reach 36 ft.

  1. 11Salt Fork State Park - Park Office Ramp: boat ramp on Salt Fork Lake, ≈ 39.4 mi from downtown.
  2. 12US 22 Wildlife Access Ramp: boat ramp on Salt Fork Lake, ≈ 40.5 mi from downtown.

When the fish bite here

By our bite calendar, November is a slow month around Wheeling for the fish recorded at these stops — the bars on each card show when each one picks up.

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Where this guide comes from

Every sentence here is assembled from the data on the Wheeling fishing page: road drive times where a route was built (≈ marks straight-line distances), access points from state registries, the species recorded in each water and our bite calendar, adjusted for latitude. Nothing is written by hand or generated by AI.

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