Fishing Report For Turtle Creek Reservoir, IN
By Rick Seaman
January 23, 2025
Fishing Reports
Popular Fish Species Turtle Creek Reservoir, IN
Black Crappie
Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good
You can catch a mess of fat, slab crappie pretty much year round. Anglers fishing in the warmed waters of Turtle Creek Reservoir report decent numbers and some fairly good size ones. Spring is the premiere time to be on the water as crappie move into shallow coves to spawn. Docks, brush, wood and deep vegetation are a good place to cast small crappie jigs or live minnows. Light tackle with 4 lb to 8 lb line is ideal. Locals report good success using fish finders to locate schools of crappie, which tend to stack vertically around cover.
Largemouth Bass
Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good
Vibrating jigs, with or without a creature trailer, are catching bass at Turtle Creek Reservoir in good numbers and some nice quality. When the bass bite slows down, tournament anglers report stick worms are triggering bites in both shallow and deeper water. Bass like to spawn in coves and pockets for protection from the wind, so fish the creeks in Spring, and concentrate on points and ledges in Summer and Fall.
Channel Catfish
Current Report: Fair To Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good
The river section of Turtle Creek Reservoir, in the northern third of the lake is a great place to find some of the bigger channel cats. Fishing for channel catfish is often productive around any kind of structure. Submerged road beds, creek channels and rocky points are all good places to begin. Use a slip sinker or Carolina rig setup. I prefer a big gob of nightcrawlers, or cut bait as they both produce here.
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Fish species to fish for...
Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, black crappie, bluegill and redear sunfish at Turtle Creek Reservoir in Indiana.
Turtle Creek Reservoir is a 1,500-acre lake with about 15 miles of shoreline. The lake remains warm through the winter, extending the growth and activities of all fish species in the lake. Popular fish species include largemouth bass, crappie, bluegill, catfish, and sunfish.
Primary fish species residing in Turtle Creek Reservoir
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Fishing Guides On Turtle Creek Reservoir
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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired bass tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".
Contact Information
Turtle Creek Reservoir
Hoosier Energy
5500 W. Old 54
Sullivan, IN 47882
812 356-4744
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