09-05-2005, 10:21 PM
The lake generally freezes over from the last week of October to the middle of November. With most of the fish at the mouths of the streams, at the Hatchery and off Staley Springs, the ice fishermen would congregate there and it would be a slaughter.
The Fish and Game opened the lake in 1978 and 1979 during November and December. The following two years, 1980 and 1981 the fishermen averaged a fish for every 9 hours fished. This is why the they started closing it at 9 p.m. each day and closed it at the end of October. The lake is just on it's way back from the drought and here we go reinventing the wheel again.
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The Fish and Game opened the lake in 1978 and 1979 during November and December. The following two years, 1980 and 1981 the fishermen averaged a fish for every 9 hours fished. This is why the they started closing it at 9 p.m. each day and closed it at the end of October. The lake is just on it's way back from the drought and here we go reinventing the wheel again.
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