Canton Lake

The lake provides several species of fish, including largemouth bass, white bass, channel catfish, crappie and walleye.  Canton has become the largest primary source of walleye eggs for incubation and stocking of other state lakes.

Canton Public Hunting Area, located along the north and west portion of the lake, covers 16,775 acres of land forested with post oak-blackjack timber on the uplands and cottonwood, chittam wood, elm and hackberry in the bottomlands.  The area provides some of the best hunting in the state.  Approximately 2,000 acres are planted to wildlife foods such as maize, wheat and other grains for quail, turkey, rabbit, squirrel, dove, deer, waterfowl and other game.