It's Time to Fish Deep Creek Lake!

Type: Nontidal
Region: Western
Location: Deep Creek Lake

The Western Region Fisheries Management staff conducted spring-time surveys in Deep Creek Lake this week, and now is a good time to fish for a variety of freshwater fish species. The shallow cove areas in the southern end of the lake are loaded with spawning golden shiners that are attracting walleye, largemouth bass, northern pike, and chain pickerel. Panfishing should also be good as the lake�s temperature in the coves is about 60� F, and we collected many yellow perch in the 8 � 13 inch range, pumpkinseeds, bluegills in the 8 � 9 inch size class, and brown and yellow bullheads that weighed about 2 lbs. The rocky shoreline areas showed good numbers of smallmouth bass in the 10 - 14 inch size class, along with a good numbers of rock bass. If you are into carp fishing, try the Green Glade Cove area, we observed some specimens there that were simply too large to fit in our dip nets.