Thirty-Two Mile Creek Reservoir Fishing in Adams County, Nebraska

• Overview

  Thirty-Two Mile Creek Reservoir is one of the Adams County listings for Nebraska. Elevation runs to 1,916 feet. Roughly 32 acres: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. The nearest place of any size is Hastings, 4.9 miles away. Lincoln sits 96 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Rules here are straightforward: one county, one set of rules.

• Where to Fish on Thirty-Two Mile Creek Reservoir

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Survey and observation records for Adams County include common carp, green sunfish, flathead catfish, white sucker and black bullhead. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. On Thirty-Two Mile Creek Reservoir that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 76°F at the top of summer and 23°F at the bottom of winter. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. Ice-out usually falls in mid March, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Ice usually gives way near mid March, and forms again about mid December. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. Anyone fishing Thirty-Two Mile Creek Reservoir regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Public mapping records no formal access here, so plan for a walk and soft ground. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Hueske Reservoir at 0.7 miles is the sensible second choice. What applies at Thirty-Two Mile Creek Reservoir may have changed since it was mapped.