Every Boat Ramp on Fort Loudoun Lake

About Fort Loudoun Lake

Fort Loudoun Lake is Knoxville's home lake, a 14,600-acre TVA reservoir on the Tennessee River that flows directly through the heart of Tennessee's third-largest city across three counties. With 360 miles of shoreline and depths reaching 75 feet, this urban fishery provides the unique experience of catching quality bass, Crappie, and Catfish within sight of the University of Tennessee campus and downtown Knoxville's skyline. The lake stretches from Fort Loudoun Dam near Lenoir City upstream through Knoxville, offering both urban waterfront fishing and quieter rural stretches in Loudon and Blount counties.

Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass fishing on Fort Loudoun Lake benefits from the lake's extensive dock systems, riprap banks, and rocky shoreline structure that provide year-round holding areas for both species. Crappie fishing is particularly popular during the spring spawn when fish flood into the many residential docks and marina areas. Sauger provide excellent winter fishing in the deeper channel areas near the dam, and Catfish grow to impressive sizes throughout the lake. Striped Bass are an exciting bonus species, with fish chasing surface-feeding schools of shad during fall months.

Fort Loudoun Lake offers numerous public boat ramps operated by TVA, Knox County, and various municipalities, with major facilities at Volunteer Landing in downtown Knoxville, Concord Park, and Louisville Point Park near Lenoir City. Full-service marinas are scattered throughout the lake. Whether you are casting to dock pilings for Largemouth Bass on a Saturday morning, jigging for Sauger near the dam during winter, or enjoying a sunset Crappie bite from the Knoxville waterfront, Fort Loudoun Lake puts quality fishing within arm's reach of East Tennessee's largest metropolitan area.

Nearest towns: Knoxville, Lenoir City, Loudon