Fishing near Louisville, KY

Louisville sits in Jefferson County on the Ohio River, whose 664-mile Kentucky border ranks as the state's premier catfish water. The defining fishery is the Falls of the Ohio below McAlpine Lock and Dam — exposed fossil beds just 1.2 miles from downtown where waders catch everything from sauger to alligator gar. Inland, Floyds Fork, Taylorsville Lake, and the Salt River round out the local scene.

Top waters to fish near Louisville

Species & education

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Alabama Shad

Alosa alabamae

Alewife

Alosa pseudoharengus

Alligator Gar

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

Bluegill

Lepomis macrochirus

Bluegill Sunfish

Lepomis macrochirus

Blue Sucker

Cycleptus elongatus

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