Largemouth Bass
Thirty-two hectares of warm, shallow, weedy creek impoundment is largemouth home water, and GRCA calls them plentiful. The fish live where you can reach them: the south-shore day-use frontage, right off the docks and the beach. The one detailed report from here pulled more largemouth than any other species — all of it from that accessible bank on a small jig-and-grub.
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This is a shore game. The catchable water is the south side of the reservoir — the docks, the beach and boat-rental frontage, and the designated fishing nodes marked on the GRCA park map.
The southeast creek shore is posted no public access, so it's the day-use side or nothing for bank anglers. A warm, weedy, stained-tolerant impoundment suits largemouth better than the smallmouth sharing the water, and the dock cover and weedy shoreline edges hold them from the fourth-Saturday-of-June opener through fall.
Work the cover close to the bank. There's no depth chart for this reservoir and no documented deep-water pattern, so don't chase structure that isn't there — the shoreline is the fishery.
Sunfish and perch fill out the forage base along those same weedy margins.
Structure
The docks, beach and boat-rental frontage, and the designated shoreline fishing nodes marked on the official GRCA park map — the accessible bank where the single located angler report caught six largemouth on a 1/16 oz jig-and-grub. It's the only shore water open to the public; the southeast creek shore is posted no access.
Regulations
This is a summary, not the legal regulation — confirm current rules with the official source before fishing.