I’m not very happy with this lake. It started out pretty much textbook in 1997 when it was first stocked. After a couple of years the bluegill and redear sunfish were very good-to-excellent. The bass and channel catfish were very good as well. Over the past several years however things have been falling off. The largemouth bass are stunted (stopped growing due to high density), which is not good for the bass angler who wants large fish, but having such high densities creates heavy predation on the sunfish(bluegill and redear) keeping them thinned out. By thinning out the sunfish population those not eaten by the bass have more food and space so their growth rates improve. In a nutshell, lots of skinny little bass mean big bluegill and redear sunfish which is the management goal of this lake. The bass are stunted as desired but we are not seeing the large bluegill and redear we should. In the Spring 2009 survey we collected some redear up to 9.5” and a handful of bluegill 7” long. So things aren’t as good as we would like.
The channel catfish population is very good.