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This is actually one of my most favourite places to fish. Its located by Dauphin just on the edge of the park, no boat or expensive gear is needed, you can drive right into it and its an excellent bass fishery if you know what you're doing.  
 
Here is a map to the reservoir from Dauphin:  
http://tinyurl.com/yttlws  
 
Here is a map to the reservoir from Brandon:  
http://tinyurl.com/2hfyva  
 
The main part of the reservoir is still iced over at the time that I'm writing this (April 23), but the spillway is completely open and I believe it pretty much remains open all winter. This means that during the ice fishing season, you can open water bass fish at this location (Though it might be a bit chilly).  
 
I generally fish this area at the bottom of the spillway anyways, and I have caught Smallmouth Bass, and nice Brown Trout here.  
 
In the early spring, especially while toads and frogs are very abundant, a good technique is to fish frog-lures right along the edge of the weedbed.  
 
Here is a photo describing what I mean (All photos taken April 5th, so no reeds yet)  
 
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9412/reedguidevf4.jpg  
 
In the summertime and early spring, another good technique to use is just live worms as bait on baitholder hooks. I generally fish these at the mouth of the spillway with a bobber or just simple jigging near the bottom. Evening and morning is best time for this, and they should bite pretty good. Only time it will slow down is if the water levels get low enough for the spillway to stop flowing, thereby the water will stop aerating and the fish will get a little lazy. Here is a photo of generally where I like to sit my bobbers:  
 
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/620/bottomreservoirky3.jpg  
 
If you enjoy flyfishing and want to go after trout, this is a productive Brown Trout fishery as well. You need to go a little further down from the spillway to catch them though. This is a 2 foot deep pool about 100 meters away from the spillway and is a fairly productive Brown Trout fishery. I generally use floating line here, and waterboatmen for early spring and late fall, and hatching insects for summer:  
 
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7097/downstreamai0.jpg  
 
If you're wading, you'll want to stand downstream from where you're casting. You can find productive pools if you walk down the river towards the stone bridge (North), and fish the deeper pools you find with whatever the Trout are chewing on.  
 
The upper-part of the reservoir is good for boats, and the fishing is not bad. I usually don't go out here. Be aware that there is an electric-only regulation for this body of water.  
 
Cheers,  
Dave