There’s not much I’d rather do than talk about the info I’ve gathered!
To state some history on the lake:
Roughly 35 years old
Don’t think it has / was ever harvested right
Was 1st completely drained in 2011/12 due to a stand pipe issue
At about 1/2 full, Jan/Feb of “13” it was stocked with whatIm told was about 165,000 bream and shad.
2/25/13. 5200 Black crappie, 6/4/13 5200 F1,s
Started tagging on 7/19/18. Have tagged 140, 5 lbs and up
Have caught 11 two times, 3, one time and 1, 4 times
Was 1st told after a year or so to start taking out some bass but only ones under 3 lbs.
Hardly anyone was fishing for crappie or bream
The lake was shocked n about “17” and they felt like there were to many crappie and bream.
Crappie at that time were about 7/8 inches. Bream 4/5.
Was then told not to take any bass hoping they would harvest the bream/ crappie
Shocked again, by a different company on 8/20/19 , was then told to take out especially the small bass, 1300lbs a year! Hard for me to catch that many small bass! All the crappie and bream that was caught All of this has hardly been scratched !

I’ve taken an average of 10 bass in each length to get these numbers:
2lbs bass are 17.17 long
3 lbs bass. 18.41
4. 19.46
5. 20.5
6. 21.9
7. 22
8. 22.6
9. 23.3
These are fish from this year

This is a chart of what I caught in each length for 2018/19

2018 2019
1lb. 178 — 53
2lb. 52. — 111
3Lb 49. — 69
4lb. 46. — 77
5lb. 26. — 54
6lb. 10. — 31
7lb. 3. — 15
8lb. 2. — 7
9lb. 0. — 6
Numbers for 1lbs in “19”. Might be skewed a bit. I was taking out all small fish and unless it was obvious over 1lb I did not count it

I could go into this info in more detail I guess and if you have question I’d be glad to answer what I can. If you’d like to look at this lake on Google Maps Pro go to:
35. 41.138
88. 35.698

Thanks for the interest!



Last edited by Mark Hopper; 12/16/19 05:23 PM.
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