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Roush Lake
bweber@dnr.state.in.us
Description:
Roush Lake is a 870-acre Lake located in Huntington, Ind. The reservoir has many facilities including an archery range, basketball courts, volleyball courts, mountain bike trails, boating ramps, camping, cultural arts programs, fishing, hunting and hiking.
Fish
Channel catfish
Description:
The channel catfish has a smooth scaleless skin and barbels on its face resembling cat whiskers. The barbels help the channel catfish taste and feel objects and enable it to locate food in dark and turbid water. The channel catfish has 24-29 rays in its rounded anal fin. The caudal fin is deeply forked and the fish has dark spots on its sides when young.
Bait: Minnows / Cut-Bait
Depth: 5 - 10 ft
Comments about fish:
Fish the main river channel with minnows or cut bait. Fish movement has been good at night. Fishing has been good to excellent fishing the riffles in river at night.
White bass
Description:
These bass belong to the temperate bass family. Temperate basses include the true fresh water basses, white and yellow bass, and the striped bass, which originally lived in the Atlantic Ocean but can live its entire life in fresh water. Temperate basses often school far from shore and feed on schooling fish. Hybrid striped bass are a cross of white and striped bass. The white bass has a single tooth patch on back of tongue, first stripe below lateral line not complete to tail.
Bait: Spinners
Depth: Surface to 10 feet.
Comments about fish:
Fish are working the flats on the main lake chasing shad. Most activity has been near Kil-So-Quah boat ramp area. Several fish have been cauht on the ramp itself from shore.
White crappie
Description:
Sunfishes include some of the best-known fish in Indiana. Bluegill, redear sunfish, black and white crappie, largemouth, spotted and smallmouth bass are all members of the sunfish family. The white crappie has six dorsal spines, black side markings forming vertical bars rather than random spots and anal fin rays.
Bait: Minnows
Depth: 10 ft
Comments about fish:
Fish are in deeper waters as water temperatures heat up. Stumps along the river channel are great places to look.
Comments about body of water:
Lake levels have been stable for about 3 weeks. Water has cleared.
Roush Lake
bweber@dnr.state.in.us
Description:
Roush Lake is a 870-acre Lake located in Huntington, Ind. The reservoir has many facilities including an archery range, basketball courts, volleyball courts, mountain bike trails, boating ramps, camping, cultural arts programs, fishing, hunting and hiking.
Fish
Channel catfish
Description:
The channel catfish has a smooth scaleless skin and barbels on its face resembling cat whiskers. The barbels help the channel catfish taste and feel objects and enable it to locate food in dark and turbid water. The channel catfish has 24-29 rays in its rounded anal fin. The caudal fin is deeply forked and the fish has dark spots on its sides when young.
Bait: Minnows / Cut-Bait
Depth: 5 - 10 ft
Comments about fish:
Fish the main river channel with minnows or cut bait. Fish movement has been good at night. Fishing has been good to excellent fishing the riffles in river at night.
White bass
Description:
These bass belong to the temperate bass family. Temperate basses include the true fresh water basses, white and yellow bass, and the striped bass, which originally lived in the Atlantic Ocean but can live its entire life in fresh water. Temperate basses often school far from shore and feed on schooling fish. Hybrid striped bass are a cross of white and striped bass. The white bass has a single tooth patch on back of tongue, first stripe below lateral line not complete to tail.
Bait: Spinners
Depth: Surface to 10 feet.
Comments about fish:
Fish are working the flats on the main lake chasing shad. Most activity has been near Kil-So-Quah boat ramp area. Several fish have been cauht on the ramp itself from shore.
White crappie
Description:
Sunfishes include some of the best-known fish in Indiana. Bluegill, redear sunfish, black and white crappie, largemouth, spotted and smallmouth bass are all members of the sunfish family. The white crappie has six dorsal spines, black side markings forming vertical bars rather than random spots and anal fin rays.
Bait: Minnows
Depth: 10 ft
Comments about fish:
Fish are in deeper waters as water temperatures heat up. Stumps along the river channel are great places to look.
Comments about body of water:
Lake levels have been stable for about 3 weeks. Water has cleared.