Ranger Lake

Ranger Lake, located in Mill Stream Run Reservation off Pearl Road (off the entrance ramp to the Ohio Turnpike) in Strongsville, is a 1.5-acre impoundment.

The lake has been stocked to establish sport fishing populations of largemouth bass, bluegill, pumpkinseed sunfish, crappie, channel catfish, and rainbow trout. The lake is stocked with trout in the winter for ice fishing.

Prior to flooding the lake, the tree and brush cover along the west side of the lake was left standing to provide improved fish habitat. Fishermen will find this area productive for catching fish.

Special fishing regulations are posted at Ranger Lake for largemouth bass and rainbow trout. The minimum legal size for catching largemouth bass is 12 inches and the daily harvest is two bass per angler. The daily harvest for rainbow trout is three fish per angler.

Rocky River East Branch

The east branch of Rocky River extends southward from Cedar Point Road in North Olmsted in Rocky River Reservation. Once the stream crosses Bagley Road it continues to meander southeastward through Mill Stream Run Reservation.

North of the sandstone falls in Berea, the river remains influenced by fish migrations from Lake Erie. Steelhead trout can be taken in this stretch of stream. Above (south) the sandstone falls the stream supports native fisheries not influenced by Lake Erie.

Fish species of importance to anglers include carp, suckers, bullhead, largemouth bass, sunfish species and stocked rainbow trout.

Cleveland Metroparks currently maintains a spring (March/April) "put and catch" fishery for adult rainbow trout in this zone of the river. An eight-mile zone from Baldwin Lake southward to Edgerton Road is used to spread out the stocked fish. The trout are stocked several times each week from "ice-out" in early March until the end of April. Currently, 4,800 rainbow trout are stocked for this program. Trout stockings are not announced and are done randomly to give both the fish and the fishermen a sporting chance.

There is a 12-inch minimum legal length and a two trout per day bag limit for this fishery until May 1 when the daily bag limit increases to five trout per day.

Wallace Lake

Wallace Lake is located on Valley Parkway, one mile south of Bagley Road in Mill Stream Run Reservation. The lake was impounded to its present size of 16 acres through construction of a spillbox structure at the north end of the lake in 1941.

The flooding joined two formerly separate stone quarries with a shallower connecting channel which provides for a diversity of fish habitat in this relatively small lake.

Fish species of importance at Wallace Lake include largemouth bass, bluegill, white crappie, brown bullhead, carp, channel catfish and rainbow trout.

Special fishing regulations are posted at Wallace Lake as follows:

• Largemouth bass - minimum legal keeper size is 12 inches
• daily harvest limit is two bass per angler
• Rainbow Trout - daily harvest limit is three trout per angler

Wallace Lake receives annual stockings of adult channel catfish and the lake receives two stockings of rainbow trout each winter for ice fishing.

Wallace Lake serves as the west side location for Cleveland Metroparks children's fishing derby, which is held the third weekend in May of each year. For additional event information call (440) 234-9597.

Quarry Rock Cafe, a snack and paddle boat concession, is open at the lake from Memorial Day through Labor Day. For additional information call (440) 826-1682.