Dream Lake

[Tim Smith]

Al, I think the solution here is to put about 100 flathead catfish in the lake, maybe more. In addition to bluegill, they really like bullheads and green sunfish and can put a hurt on a big hurt on stunted fish populations. Also, how much vegetation is there in the lake? It seems like bluegill health is more related to aquatic vegetation and insect population than anything else.

I've had similar thoughts and seen efforts with pike and muskie to achieve similar results but I've never seen this tried in a scientific way with flatheads. Kayser, do you know of any data to support this approach? It makes sense that it would work...but I also know that the east coast states think flathead are a pest species so I'm going to hold on to my skepticism until I see numbers.

[rainbow]

I have fished the Frying Pan numerous times and have never found it to be overly crowded. It is almost deserted during the week with more traffic on weekends but we have always found fishable areas that were open. i know about the private water areas and that sucks. There is only one guide there who has permission to fish that area. Its a shame they can do that. The Roaring Fork is also a good river to fish when the water is down. I have stayed in a cabin on in many times.

[Guest csfishinfool]

Dream lake for me would be about three acres in size. A large spring pumping cold ozark water in year round. Stocked with

Flordia strain Large mouth. And alot of rainbow trout. See if I could grow a state record.

[ColdWaterFshr]

Dream Lake for me would actually be about a mile of spring-fed CREEK, not lake.

[ciRe]

I have a 17 acre 7 spring feed lake by my house that one of the springs is 95+ feet deep according to the deep finder. We are over populated with bass and bluegil and I pull out around 1500 10" bass and put them in other lakes for my co workers a year. That is still not enough! So if anyone here wants to go fishing with me and loves to eat largemouth tell me! (It's located in St. Louis County) My biggest bass out of the lake is a 10.4 (Which I was very surprised to get one that big out of that small of a lake) And I caught a bluegil when I was younger that weighed over 2lbs. I remember my dad was wondering if he should call conservation to see what the record at the time was but this was before the cell phone era (Well before everyone had one)

Well if I got to design my own dream lake it would be about 30 acres and 50 feet deep. I would only put female bass in to keep the population in check and get big pretty quick. Of course I would put different types of shad in the lake.