| Species | Rating | Sizes Possible | Baits, Method, & Location |
| Crappie | Slow | Up to 12 inches | Spawning crappie will target shallow structure like brush or cattails. Anglers should target the brush piles and other submerged structure with minnows and jigs or nearby points and drop offs where pre-spawn crappie might stage. Harvest regulations include 50/day creel limit. |
| Channel Catfish | Fair | Most in the 1 lb size range | Fish can be caught all over the lake. Try shad sides, shad gizzards, shrimp, nightcrawlers, and chicken liver. If it ever rains, target areas of inflow. Harvest regulations is 5/day creel limit. |
| Largemouth bass | Slow | Up to 4 lbs | Fish are spawning right now and making and guarding nests this time of year. Look for shallow depressions near shallow overhanging structure or shallow brushpiles. Fish can be caught around any aquatic vegetation, off the rocky jetties, and around the overhanging trees in the water. Focus on submerged wood in the vegetation. Try wacky worms, Senkos, Ned Rigs, spinnerbaits, roadrunners, and crankbaits. Harvest regulations include a 15-inch minimum length limit and 5/day creel limit. |
| Bluegill/Redear | No report | Up to 8 inches | These fish are about to spawn. Worms under a bobber and small jigs fished vertically around brush in deeper water. There are no harvest restrictions at this time. |
| Walleye | Fair | Up to 4 lbs | Jig and night crawler should really work on the points and flats right now. Also try casting crankbaits and swimbaits over points, shelves, and along rip-rapped shorelines adjacent to deeper water. Harvest regulations include a 15-inch minimum length limit and 5/day creel limit. |
| White Bass
| Good | Whites up to 17 inches | Trolling crankbaits or vertically fishing slab spoons over the tops of fish attractors or prominent windblown main lake points and shelves. Most of the larger white bass range from 12 to 17 inches.. |
Water temps should be in the upper 60s. We have received very few reports from anglers. You may call the Dodge City Regional office as 620-227-8609 to make a report. Regular reporting will resume in April of 2023.
Please discard of leftover bait in a trash can, even baitfish. Remember it is illegal to release any fish into public water unless it was taken from that water!