03-26-2015, 09:36 PM
With the conditions being what they are it won't take until August for the lake to be in trouble, I'd guess by late June we'll see problems. I wouldn't be surprised to see them take the slot, artificial only restrictions and limit off by mid summer to let people harvest what they can other than let them just die off. (The trout that is.) It's happened once before that I can recall years ago. Once it gets to the conservation pool oxygen levels are so low the trout don't survive well at all. The past couple of years the quality of trout has dropped off from what I've experienced. The smallmouth, however, are greatly improved. I just hope we get some serious rains throughout the spring and summer for the fishing and farming.
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