Fishing / Site-Specific Regulations

These regulations apply only to the water areas listed under the Location column

Species	Location	Daily Limit	Minimum Size
Crappies	Delaware Lake (including the Olentangy River upstream to the Waldo dam, and Whetstone Creek upstream to St. Rt. 229), Alum Creek Lake, Deer Creek Lake, Tappan Lake, Seneca Lake, and Caesar Creek Lake	none	9 inches
Crappies	Killdeer Plains, Oxbow Lake, St. Joseph River Wildlife Area Lakes	10	none
Sunfish (all species)	Killdeer Plains, Oxbow Lake, St. Joseph River Wildlife Area	10	none
Largemouth, Smallmouth, and Spotted Bass	Killdeer Plains, Knox Lake, Oxbow Lake, St. Joseph River Wildlife Area Lakes, and Tycoon Lake	5	18 inches
Largemouth, Smallmouth, and Spotted Bass	Acton Lake, Adams Lake, Blue Rock, Caesar Creek, Caldwell Lake, Cowan, Dale Walborn, Greenfield, Hancock County Wetlands Lake, Hargus, Kenton Lake, Lake Milton and the Mahoning River connecting Berlin Lake and Lake Milton, Monroeville Reservoir, Monroe Lake, New Lyme, Ohio-Erie Canal, Paint Creek, Pike, Pine Lake, Ross, Rush Creek Lake, Rush Run Lake, Salt Fork, Seneca Lake, Silver Creek Lake, Sippo Lake, Spencer, Vesuvius Lake, Wellington Reservoir South, and Zepernick	5	15 inches
Largemouth, Smallmouth, and Spotted Bass	Alum Creek, Atwood, Berlin, Bresler, Buckeye, Charles Mill, C.J. Brown, Clear Fork, Clendening, Deer Creek, Delaware, Dillon, East Fork, Findlay #2, Grand Lake St. Marys, Hoover, Indian, LaDue, Leesville, Loramie, Mogadore, Mosquito, Nimisila, O'Shaughnessy, Piedmont, Pleasant Hill, Rocky Fork, Tappan, Turkeyfoot, West Branch, and Wills Creek	5	12 inches
Largemouth, Smallmouth, and Spotted Bass	Belmont, Burr Oak, Dow, Findley, Fox, Hammertown (Jackson City Reservoir), Highlandtown, Lake Rupert (Wellston City Reservoir), Slope Creek (Barnesville #3), Snowden, Timbre Ridge, Turkey Creek, Wolf Run, and AEP ReCreation Lands lakes MB40, MB41, MB42, MM29, MM34, NB43	5	none may be taken between 12 and 15 inches
Largemouth Bass	La Su An and Resthaven Pond #8	Special Limits are Posted
Smallmouth Bass	Big Darby Creek from St. Rt. 762 to U.S. 40; Little Beaver Creek from OH-PA border to St. Rt. 7; Sandusky River from Ballville Dam to Twp. Rd. 143 in Seneca Co.; Hocking River from St. Rt. 278 to St. Rt. 93; Stillwater River from Frederick-Garland Rd. to St. Rt. 718	1	15 inches
Striped Bass	Seneca Lake	1	26 inches
Hybrid Striped Bass	East Fork Lake	4	15 inches
Walleye	Berlin Lake, C.J. Brown Reservoir, Lake Milton, and the Mahoning River connecting Berlin Lake and Lake Milton	6	15 inches
Trout (all species)	Mad River and its tributaries, Clear Fork River and its tributaries, Clear Creek from the first Fairfield County Road 69 bridge (east of the junction of County Road 26 and 29) to U.S. Rt. 33 bridge in Hocking County	2	12 inches
Brook Trout	Chagrin River and its tributaries (Geauga Co.); Rocky River and its tributaries (Medina Co.)	Possession is Prohibited

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