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Clark Lake is a Reservoir in Clark, Ohio.

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Clark Lake is a headwater impoundment of Sinking Creek in the Great Miami River watershed. The Clark Lake watershed comprises approximately 4,384 acres, of which 80 percent is agricultural land and 8 percent woodlots.

Fishing Description:

Major sport fish species include largemouth bass, bluegill, white crappie, channel catfish, and bullhead catfish. Carp and suckers are also found in the lake. Catchable size rainbow trout are stocked each spring (usually early to mid-March).

Fishing Cover / Structure:

Clark Lake is shallow, with a maximum depth of about 6 feet near the dam. The lake bottom is underlain with a substrate of clay, sand, and gravel. A large portion of the lake bottom is very sandy, especially in the southern half. The coves on the eastern side of the lake are shallow and are usually heavily vegetated.

Fishing Tips, Tactics, How-To info:

Largemouth bass are taken on diving and surface lures, plastic worms, and live worms fished around fallen trees and stumps and near aquatic vegetation along the shoreline and fishing piers.

Bluegills can be taken with redworms, wax worms, or mealworms around stumps and logs, near aquatic vegetation, and along the fishing piers. Fly fishermen use wet flies, popping bugs, and rubber spiders for bluegills. In the winter, when safe ice is present, fishermen can catch bluegills by using ice flies and wax worms.

Crappies can be taken in the spring around stumps and logs and along the fishing piers with live minnows or jigs with twister tails.

Night crawlers are the best bait for catching bullheads along the fishing piers. Channel catfish are taken on night crawlers, shrimp, and chicken livers fished on the bottom.

Trout fishermen use small spinners, jigs with plastic twister tails, worms, and prepared scent baits.

Boat Ramp:

The Division of Wildlife provides and maintains parking areas, a boat ramp, and a latrine. A 10 horsepower motor restriction is enforced on the lake.

Address:

Wildlife District Five,
1076 Old Springfield Pike,
Xenia, Ohio 45385;
Telephone (937) 372-9261

Directions to Lake:

Clark Lake is situated in Clark County, approximately 8 miles east of Springfield, northeast of Harmony, off U.S. Route 40.

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