Well, it is fairly round, almost circular. It was a limesone quarry back in the early 1900's (hence the high lime volume, slow fish growth, tons of weeds at the bottom etc). so no, no alcoves, although i could portion off part of the space around my dad's dock.
The quarry hit a spring, in 2 places actually, stopped production, mchenry county stocked it in the 1930's and left it alone. In the late 70's they started building houses around it.
Aside from the couple of carp and the dumb kid across the pond who breaks h.Association rules and brings fish from other lakes in the chain of lakes, nothing goes in...and nothing comes out.
I plan on a fish fry on fri and saturday night, to see what the homeowners Association feels about that. It isn't in the bylaws, but they are pretty stickler for catch & release.
Unfortunately....Im not. Again, a little conservation/biology/hydrology education, and i know better. you can't not cull to population of the predator species. there has to be a control. that, apparently, is me or the alternative, starvation.
I think after all of this i am going to shy away from tiger muskie. Also talked to one of my old professors i still fish with, and he let me in on something, replace the apex predator with a big hungry muskie, and he won't only eat the bass, but the crappie as well. then the yellowfin topminoow population gets out of control...then low o2 levels, etc etc etc and you may have screwed the balance up worse than it was before. In this situation, we'll let onezey do his business, and otherwise i'll try selective harvest when i am there (4 or 5 times a year), combined with the construction project i started today.....should see at least some impact.
Last edited by skinnybass; 01/26/10 09:23 PM.
