Lake Wawasee

 

Lake Data

 

Acres:  3060

 

Maximum Depth:  77 feet

 

Thermocline:

            24 to 38 feet (Western Basin)

            14 to 28 feet (Eastern Basin)

 

Fish Population:

Bluegill, yellow perch, largemouth bass, black crappie, pumpkinseed, redear, emerald shiner, long-nose gar, lake chubsucker, longear, brook silverside, brown bullhead, yellow bullhead, warmouth, spotted gar, rock bass, northern pike, bowfin, golden shiner, smallmouth bass, grass pickerel, green sunfish, bluntnose minnow, branded killifish and carp.

 

Aquatic Vegetation:

Emergent – cattail, spatterdock, water lily, arrowhead, arrow arum, water martweed, spiked lossestrife, swamp loosestrife, softstem bulrush

Submergent – milfoil, coontail, leafy pondweed, largeleaf pondweed

 

Bottom Types:

            Gravel, sand and muck

 

Best Fishing:

Bluegill, yellow perch, largemouth bass, crappie, pumpkinseed, redear, rock bass and northern pike