Fishing near Evansville, IN

Set in Vanderburgh County along the Indiana-Kentucky line, Evansville sits at the center of a big-river fishery built around the Ohio River and its backwaters, tributary creeks, and reclaimed strip-mine pit lakes. Anglers work the main stem for catfish, sauger, bass, crappie, and freshwater drum, while nearby Hovey Lake, Blue Grass FWA, the Patoka River, and the lower Wabash round out one of southwest Indiana's most varied stretches of water.

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Alabama Shad

Alosa alabamae

Alewife

Alosa pseudoharengus

Alligator Gar

Atractosteus spatula

American Eel

Anguilla rostrata

American Paddlefish

Polyodon spathula

American Shad

Alosa sapidissima

Bighead Carp

Hypophthalmichthys nobilis

Bigmouth Buffalo

Ictiobus cyprinellus

Black Buffalo

Ictiobus niger

Black Bullhead

Ameiurus melas

Black Crappie

Pomoxis nigromaculatus

Blue Catfish

Ictalurus furcatus

Bluegill

Lepomis macrochirus

Bluegill Sunfish

Lepomis macrochirus

Blue Sucker

Cycleptus elongatus

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