| Species | Rating | Size | Baits, Method, Location |
| Black Bass | Fair/Good | Up to 6 lbs. | Fish can be caught casting soft plastics, chatterbaits, ned rigs, and topwater plugs or poppers around shoreline structure, especially early and late. Casting shad imitating swimbaits and Texas- or Carolina-rigged soft plastics over points and other structure in 12 to 20 feet of water during the day. |
| Channel Catfish | Good | Up to 12 lbs. | Still fishing cut bait on rod and reel or on set lines on large shallow flats and points in 12 to 15 feet of water. |
| Crappie | Good | Up to 15 inches | Vertically fishing jigs or minnows over the fish attractors has been best. |
| Walleye | Fair | Up to 28 inches | Drifting or casting jigs tipped with nightcrawlers, and casting shad imitating swim baits and crank baits over main lake points and other structure possessing a hard bottom type early or late. |
| White Bass/Wipers | Fair/Good | Whites up to 17 inches Wipers up to 13.5 lbs. | White bass are beginning to chase shad on the surface where they can be caught casting small, shad-imitating topwater or shallow running baits. Otherwise, locating schools of white bass via electronics and vertically fishing small spoons or trolling small shad-imitating crankbaits can be effective too. Drifting live sunfish over mainlake points and other structure in 12 to 18 feet of water or casting large topwater baits or swim baits over shallow, windswept points has been most productive for wipers. |
| WATER TEMPERATURE-76 degrees F SURFACE ELEVATION- 2123.40 ft. above MSL-20.60 ft. below conservation pool ATTENTION: An established zebra mussel population has been documented at this water making Cedar Bluff an ANS designated water. With this designation, regulations are in effect primarily aimed at discouraging water containing microscopic zebra mussel larvae from leaving the property and establishing in new waters. Any time one leaves the reservoir it is best to clean mud, vegetation, or attached zebra mussel adults off of boats and other equipment, drain any thing on a boat or other equipment that holds water, and allow boats and other equipment to dry completely before using them at another body of water. It is now illegal to use wild-caught bait from Cedar Bluff at any other water. Live fish are not to be taken off the property. And all livewells and bilges must be drained prior to leaving the property. It is illegal to release fish into public water unless it was taken from that water. So please discard any leftover bait in a trash can. | |||
