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AEP Recreation Land
This camping area is free and offers a few small ponds for
kids under 16-years old only to fish. It has a playground with
swings and other things to keep the young ones having fun. It
is the best location at the AEP Recreation Land property to take
your kids to camp. Also, this site is within a short
distance/drive to many other ponds. Some of the ponds just a
short drive from this campsite offer: huge, giant, lunker, pig size
largemouth bass. And also many of the local lakes/ponds in the
area are chock full of spotted bass. Many of the spotted bass
are small sized. But a skilled angler can catch up to thirty
or forty spotted bass in one outing. The AEP campsites are
primitive. If you need electric, bring a generator. This
site is located within a 10-minute drive to McConnelsville Ohio.
Barkcamp State Park
This is a very nice and clean state park located in
Belmont County Ohio. It offers: electric sites, a shower
house, hiking trails, a beach, and a nice sized (electric motor
only) lake called Belmont Lake.
Belmont Lake
has a slot limit from 12 to 15-inches and is about 117-acres
in size.
The state recommends keeping the smaller sized bass in order to
increase the growth rate of the overall bass population. There
are many small largemouth bass in this lake...maybe too many.
So if you're in the mood to help out the growth rate of largemouth
bass, and for some fresh fried bass at the campsite... this is the
place to camp.
Strouds Run State
Park
This park is located near Athens Ohio. This is
a pretty small campground that does not offer: electric, showers, or
flush toilets. So remember to bring your generator to this
park. The park offers a beach, hiking trails, shelter houses
for picnics, and best of all... a great lake to fish.
The lake at this park is called
Dow Lake.
And this lake offers up many largemouth bass weighing over 5-pounds
to the local anglers each season. It is just a short drive
from camp to the 161-acre (10-hp) lake.
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AEP Recreation Land
This camping area is free and is within
walking distance of the Buckeye Trail. The Buckeye Trail has
many nice ponds the energetic angler may want to hike to from camp.
Fishing from the shoreline is a chore at several of these
out-of-the-way ponds. So I recommend a canoe or other small
type of watercraft to better take advantage of these rarely fished
waters.
This location is best suited to those wishing to
stay close to the local bait shops, beer docks, and grocery stores.
I recommend Jumpers Corner in Reinersville Ohio for those shopping for
groceries, camp supplies, fishing lures, and even live bait.
Bring a generator to the AEP campsites if you need electric.
Burr Oak State Park
If you're setting up a fish-camp, I recommend camping at the Dock #2
camping area. It is the best location to literally camp by the
water. You can walk from your campsite a few hundred feet,
climb in your boat, and be fishing an over 600-acre 10-hp limit lake in less than 5-minutes.
Dock #2 camping does not have electric. But it offers water
and restrooms.
The main campground offers: 17 new electric sites, a shower house, a
short drive to the beach and marina with launch ramp, hiking trails,
and other activities.
The lodge offers: it's own beach, a launch ramp, indoor/outdoor
pool, and many other activities. Also there are cabins
available at this park.
Wolf Run State Park
Here is a state park for all of you bass fishing fanatics. If
you don't need electricity, and you want to camp by the lake and
fish whenever you want, or you want to climb out of the camp-site
and into your boat and go fishing... Then, camp-sites number
twenty-two and twenty-three are the ones you want.
This lake has a 10hp limit, and is around 200-acres of pure largemouth bass habitat.
It's deep. It has plenty of cover, and plenty of structure. And most of all,
there are some good fish in this lake.
There is plenty of electric sites to charge your trolling motor
batteries. And the launch ramp is only about a 2-mile drive
from the camping area. It has: a playground and activities for
the little ones, shower house, hiking trials, and an awesome lake to
fish.
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