Toronto Reservoir Fishing Report - Updated: 4/24/24

Species Rating Size Baits, Method, Location
channel catfish fair

3% 11"-16"

39% 16"-24"

45% 24"-28"

13% 28"-36"

 Use a worm or shad sides below riffles and windy shoreline.
       
white bass fair

18% 6"-9"

62% 9"-12"

15% 12"-15"

5% 15"-18"

0% 18"+

 Use plastic jig, or spinner below riffles in river and Walnut Creek.  
white crappie good

66% 5"-8"

33 8"-10"

1% 10"-12"

1% 12"-15"

<1% 15"+

 Use a jig or minnow around brush piles, southwest corner of dam, below riffles, and shallow gravel beds.  Fish are moving to shallow water to spawn. 
General Comments

 

Link to USACE reservoir water level: http://www.swt-wc.usace.army.mil/TORO.lakepage.html

Size structures are from 2023 October test netting and 2021 May electrofishing for largemouth bass. No bass electrofishing occurred in 2022 due to high water.

To view a map of Toronto Reservoir brush piles, copy this file into Google Earth and zoom into the reservoir. 

TORR brush piles 17 (OCTET-STREAM 1.74 kB)

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