HC - the Webster area lakes certainly fall into the category of dry-wet cycle waters, as you already knew. We got plenty of snow this winter, so you'll certainly have water this year!
It would be nice to know if there are yellow perch in the lake. If not, a stocking of pre-spawn adults might be the cheapest way to get some fishing pretty darn quickly. In newly expanded waters, perch hatched this year will be 8-9 inches by the fall of 2010 and 10-12+ inches by the fall of 2011.
For Forum readers who wonder "what about the predators?" -- when the lakes are shallow and go up and down with the wet and dry cycles, they often winterkill once per 3-5 years. If so, the perch don't have time to overpopulate between winterkills. Our state agency manages a lot of these winterkill-prone lakes, and perch growth rates are amazing. Nothing against stocking predators (northern pike in these lakes usually reach 20 inches by the end of their second growing season), but just looking for a less-expensive alternative.
