Fishing near Crossville, TN

Crossville sits on the Cumberland Plateau in Cumberland County, surrounded by a cluster of small lakes and creeks that keep local anglers busy year-round. Byrd Lake at Cumberland Mountain State Park, Meadow Park Lake in the city itself, and the lakes of the Fairfield Glade community are the go-to spots, while the Caney Fork River and Sequatchie River draw anglers looking for moving water. The area is particularly noted for its shellcracker (redear sunfish) fishing, with some locals calling it one of the best places in Tennessee to target a two-pound redear.

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Black Crappie

Pomoxis nigromaculatus

Blue Catfish

Ictalurus furcatus

Bluegill Sunfish

Lepomis macrochirus

Brook Trout

Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

Channel Catfish

Ictalurus punctatus

Cutthroat Trout

Flathead Catfish

Pylodictis olivaris

Golden Redhorse

Moxostoma erythrurum

Muskellunge

Esox masquinongy

Northern Hogsucker

Hypentelium nigricans

Rainbow Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Redear Sunfish

Lepomis microlophus

Rock Bass

Ambloplites rupestris

Sauger

Sander canadensis

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