A great panfish lake, featuring good sized bluegill and sunfish. Also has a healthy largemouth bass population.
This border water has developed a diverse warm/cool water fishery. There's a good largemouth population with many double-digit hogs, nice Crappie, stripers and some decent Walleye. 20,300 acres
Access to the Roanoke River
A Sexxy shad crankbait works well as well as jerk baits. The channel below the dam makes for run and gun fishing but you can catch some nice fish. Be careful east of the Thelma landing as it gets shal...
Species include; largemouth bass, bluegill, sunfish, black crappie and catfish.