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Patoka Lake, IN
Reservoir spanning Dubois/Crawford/Orange counties, Indiana. Indiana's second-largest lake at ~8,800 acres, a USACE reservoir on the Patoka River in southern Indiana. One of the state's best bass and crappie lakes with an excellent stocked striped/hybrid bass fishery and good channel catfish. Long timbered creek arms and standing timber give crappie and bass abundant cover.
Overall bite score
Scored 14 min ago · recomputed every 30 minutes
Each instrument reads 0 to 100. The score is their weighted blend, tuned for lakes and reservoirs. No black box: every reading names its source.
What swims here
9 tracked species in Patoka Lake, with the months each fishes best.
Water facts
Inflow proxy via USGS 03375500 (Patoka River at Jasper, live 00060 flow; reservoir has no live water-temp gauge so bite score uses the warm-reservoir seasonal baseline). Statewide 14-in/5 bass, 2/day striped bass, 25/day crappie. Ramps: Newton-Stewart SRA, Walls SRA, Lick Fork SRA (Hoosier Hills Marina).
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