Toronto Reservoir Fishing Report -
Species Rating Size Baits, Method, Location
channel catfish fair

3% 11"-16"

39% 16"-24"

45% 24"-28"

13% 28"-36"

Use a worm or shad sides below riffles and windy shoreline.
       
white bass fair

18% 6"-9"

62% 9"-12"

15% 12"-15"

5% 15"-18"

0% 18"+

Use plastic jig, or spinner below riffles in river and Walnut Creek.  
white crappie fair

66% 5"-8"

33 8"-10"

1% 10"-12"

1% 12"-15"

<1% 15"+

Use a jig or minnow around brush piles, below riffles, and shallow gravel beds.  Fish are moving to shallow water to spawn. 
General Comments

 

Link to USACE reservoir water level: http://www.swt-wc.usace.army.mil/TORO.lakepage.html

Size structures are from 2023 October test netting and 2021 May electrofishing for largemouth bass. No bass electrofishing occurred in 2022 due to high water.

To view a map of Toronto Reservoir brush piles, copy this file into Google Earth and zoom into the reservoir. 

TORR brush piles 17 (OCTET-STREAM 1.74 kB)

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