Rankings
The Biggest Fishing Lakes and Reservoirs
The biggest named fishing waters tracked on Angling Hubs, ranked by surface acreage from USGS records. Pick a state below to see what the big water is near you.
In this scope: 20,135 waters · 31,096,856 acres
- Lake MichiganMILake · Mason County14,296,881 acres
- Lake ErieNYLake · Lake County · 38 recorded stockings6,360,020 acres
- Lake OntarioNYLake · Cayuga County · 598 recorded stockings4,656,932 acres
- Lake OaheSDReservoir · Hughes County309,913 acres
- Lake ChamplainVTLake · Grand Isle County · 60 recorded stockings277,118 acres
- Lake WinnebagoWILake · Winnebago County131,995 acres
- Mille Lacs LakeMNLake · Mille Lacs County128,167 acres
- Lake TahoeCALake · Placer County122,975 acres
- Pyramid LakeNVLake · Washoe County108,983 acres
- Leech LakeMNLake · Cass County103,350 acres
- Eufaula LakeOKReservoir · McIntosh County100,599 acres
- Lake Pend OreilleIDLake · Bonner County92,764 acres
- Utah LakeUTLake · Utah County91,156 acres
- Lake Francis CaseSDReservoir · Charles Mix County82,167 acres
- Devils LakeNDLake · Ramsey County79,682 acres
- Tustumena LakeAKLake · Kenai Peninsula County73,354 acres
- Guntersville LakeALReservoir · Jackson County65,603 acres
- Lake TexomaOKReservoir · Marshall County59,414 acres
- Oneida LakeNYLake · Oswego County · 27 recorded stockings51,325 acres
- Lake of the OzarksMOReservoir · Camden County51,171 acres
- Lake BarkleyKYReservoir · Trigg County49,741 acres
- Harry S Truman ReservoirMOReservoir · St. Clair County49,366 acres
- Lake MurraySCReservoir · Lexington County48,761 acres
- Lake WinnipesaukeeNHLake · Belknap County45,654 acres
- Bull Shoals LakeARReservoir · Boone County44,979 acres
By state
- Alabama196 waters · 147,866 acres
- Alaska300 waters · 132,091 acres
- Arizona129 waters · 31,120 acres
- Arkansas101 waters · 184,613 acres
- California413 waters · 160,623 acres
- Colorado874 waters · 43,293 acres
- Connecticut888 waters · 34,926 acres
- Delaware95 waters · 3,970 acres
- Florida242 waters · 14,751 acres
- Georgia544 waters · 89,682 acres
- Hawaii76 waters · 1,502 acres
- Idaho417 waters · 225,467 acres
- Illinois382 waters · 65,600 acres
- Indiana457 waters · 37,636 acres
- Iowa132 waters · 28,231 acres
- Kansas68 waters · 45,477 acres
- Kentucky92 waters · 107,316 acres
- Louisiana61 waters · 38,426 acres
- Maine684 waters · 223,618 acres
- Maryland239 waters · 6,410 acres
- Massachusetts1,040 waters · 39,153 acres
- Michigan993 waters · 14,439,459 acres
- Minnesota1,030 waters · 449,465 acres
- Mississippi172 waters · 9,279 acres
- Missouri144 waters · 148,305 acres
- Montana533 waters · 87,952 acres
- Nebraska347 waters · 37,598 acres
- Nevada53 waters · 121,992 acres
- New Hampshire695 waters · 126,802 acres
- New Jersey260 waters · 10,708 acres
- New Mexico159 waters · 16,656 acres
- New York912 waters · 11,357,934 acres
- North Carolina233 waters · 80,986 acres
- North Dakota125 waters · 186,364 acres
- Ohio385 waters · 25,158 acres
- Oklahoma280 waters · 279,384 acres
- Oregon481 waters · 39,735 acres
- Pennsylvania645 waters · 40,558 acres
- Rhode Island365 waters · 19,797 acres
- South Carolina269 waters · 82,186 acres
- South Dakota117 waters · 439,088 acres
- Tennessee364 waters · 186,519 acres
- Texas251 waters · 65,272 acres
- Utah243 waters · 111,809 acres
- Vermont421 waters · 308,273 acres
- Virginia551 waters · 52,421 acres
- Washington1,041 waters · 229,531 acres
- West Virginia36 waters · 6,088 acres
- Wisconsin1,080 waters · 349,191 acres
- Wyoming517 waters · 126,527 acres
