Tippecanoe, Oswego and James Lakes

 

Lake Data

 

Acres:

            Tippecanoe – 768

            James – 282

            Oswego – 82.6

 

Maximum Depth:

            Tippecanoe – 122 feet

            James – 62 feet

            Oswego – 37 feet

 

Thermocline:

            Tippecanoe – 10 to 34 feet

            James – 16 to 30 feet

            Oswego – 12 to 26 feet

 

Fish Population:

Bluegill, gizzard shad, lake chubsucker, yellow perch, largemouth bass, longear, redear, black crappie, spotted sucker, warmouth, spotted gar, rock bass, bowfin, channel catfish, white sucker, longnose gar, brown bullhead, grass pickerel, quillback carpsucker, yellow bullhead, golden shiner, northern pike, carp, white bass, pumpkinseed, common shiner, central mudminnow, golden redhorse, smallmouth bass, black bullhead, northern hog sucker and brook silverside.

 

Aquatic Vegetation:

Emergent – spatterdock, cattail, water lily, arrowhead, pickerelweed, American lotus, swamp loosestrife, spike loosestrife, softstem bulrush

Submergent – coontail, milfoil, curlyleaf pondweed, largeleaf pondweed, elodea, sago pondweed, water star grass

Floating – duckweed, wolffia

 

Bottom Types:  Gravel, sand, muck and clay

 

Best Fishing:

Bluegill, yellow perch, largemouth bass, redear, black crappie, northern pike