Mill Creek (Lake)
General Information
County: O'Brien
Location: 1 mile east of Paullina
Acres: 23.00
Maximum Depth: 16 ft. (2014)
Motoring Restrictions: Electric Motors Only
Nearby Parks
Amenities
Amenities at Mill Creek (Lake) include:
- Boat Access
- Fishing Jetty
- Accessible Pier
- Picnic Area
- Beach
- Trails
- Accessible Facilities
- Playground
- Restrooms
- Camping
- Concessions
- Good/Excellent Shorefishing
- Hard Surface Boat Ramp
- Accessible Shoreline
- Fish Cleaning Station
- 9/27/22 - 100 Channel Catfish (9.3)
- 09/23/2020 - 108 Channel Catfish (9.4)
- 10/04/2018 - 100 Channel Catfish (8.7)
- 9/26/16 - 125 Channel Catfish (9.5")
The
Fishing Regulations brochure is available for download. The summaries listed below are a partial listing provided for your benefit.
- Black Bullhead
- Season: Continuous
- Daily Bag Limit: unlimited
- Possession Limit: unlimited
- Length Limit: none
- Other:
- Black Crappie
- Season: Continuous
- Daily Bag Limit: combined black and white crappie, 25 fish
- Possession Limit: unlimited
- Length Limit: none
- Other: No daily limit on private waters
- Bluegill
- Season: Continuous
- Daily Bag Limit: 25 fish
- Possession Limit: unlimited
- Length Limit: none
- Other: No daily limit on private waters
- Channel Catfish
- Season: Continuous
- Daily Bag Limit: combined: channel, blue and flathead catfish, 8 fish
- Possession Limit: combined: channel, blue and flathead catfish, 30 fish
- Length Limit: none
- Other:
- Largemouth Bass
- Season: Continuous
- Daily Bag Limit: combined black bass, 3 fish
- Possession Limit: combined black bass, 6 fish
- Length Limit: 18-inch minimum
- Other:
Mill Creek Lake has provided anglers with quality fishing opportunities throughout the 2021 fishing season. The lake has easy access around most of its shoreline which makes finding the right spot easy. Less accessible areas and weed lines can be navigated around by canoe or kayak. Mill Creek Lake offers many good fishing opportunities for bluegill, black crappie, and largemouth bass. While sampling a few 10+ inch bluegill were observed as well as a good year class of 6-8 inch fish that will be of good size this coming year. A very large year class of 8-9 inch black crappie was also observed which should make for great ice fishing this winter as well as fish of good size to catch next season. There were a good amount of healthy 12-16 inch bass collected while sampling which should provide good opportunities for bass anglers. (2021)
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Contacts
Iowa-Caught Fish Are Safe to Eat, In Almost All Cases
The vast majority of Iowa’s streams, rivers and lakes offer safe and high-quality fish that pose little or no threat to human health if consumed. Some limitations may apply for young children and pregnant women. Here’s a Fish Consumption Fact Sheet from the Iowa DNR and the Iowa Dept. of Public Health for more information.