You'll find deep water, underwater islands, deep water humps and areas with large boulders. These are ideal spots to find walleye. The best method is trolling. A lot of anglers also work the shallow areas for walleye in the early morning and evening hours. There is a small northern pike population, and it's one of the better lakes for crappie.
Anglers can also catch channel cats and white bass there.
Fox Lake and the adjoining Nippersink Lake are actually large bays of the Fox River. Both lakes are shallow and Gadzinowski rates the fishing as only fair in each lake. There also is a nice walleye population and pretty good numbers of white bass. A lot of anglers fish these lakes for channel cats and carp. Gadzinowski estimates that 80 percent of the boat traffic on the chain is recreation boaters, while about 20 percent is anglers.