Ridinger Lake

 

Lake Data

 

Acres:  136

 

Maximum Depth:  42 feet

 

Average Depth:  21 feet

 

Thermocline:

            12 to 18 feet

 

Fish Population:

Bluegill, white crappie, black crappie, lake chubsucker, yellow perch, white sucker, golden shiner, warmouth, largemouth bass, longear, sunfish, yellow bullhead, spotted gar, brown bullhead, pumpkinseed, spotted sucker, gizzard shad, grass pckerel, redear  sunfish, hybrid sunfish, bowfin, carp, green sunfish, logperch and brook silversides.

 

Aquatic Vegetation:

Emergent – bulrush, cattail, pickerelweed, spatterdock, spike rush water lily.

Submergent – American pondweek, chara, coontail, curly-leaf, pondweed, milfoil, sago pondweed.

 

Bottom Types:

            Sand, muck and clay

 

Best Fishing:

            Bluegill and crappie