Here are the planned numbers for 2012.
Priority 1
Big Bear – 1800
Thornapple – 1700
Priority 2
Belleville Lake – 2500
Chicagon Lake – 1500
Lake Winyah – 3000
Lake Margrethe – 2000
Austin Lake – 1000
Budd Lake – 300
N. Manistique – 2500
Priority 3
Smallwood Lake – 300
Lake Macatawa – 3400
Muskegon River (Clare) – 800
Otsego Lake – 3944
Dana Lake – 180
Muskegon River (Missaukee) – 800
Long Lake (St Joseph) – 400
Priority 4
Wixom Lake – 3960
Cooke Dam Pond – 3900
McKeever Lake – 200
Hamlin Lake – 4000
Grand River (Ottawa) – 1000
Sanford Lake – 2500
If all stocked this would total 41,684
Oh, then they will literally be in my backyard Steve! Besides, there are other lakes like Winyah that lose them this way. In my opinion, it just creates a much more broad fishery than just the lake they were stocked in. Besides, I think there may be a few hangin' around still….and by now, hmmmm, they should be fatties! I've been itchin' to see. I think I'll start that quest this weekend……
Also, I'm pretty sure the reason they quit stocking was because the two strains were inter-mingling in the river. NOT because they saw it as a waste of time…….
"Steve S" said:
How about putting them in Barton Pond and they would be in The Huron all the way down past Belleville, Geddes Pond, Ford Lake, that would be cool. Alot of carp in there to eat. Everybody it Rick's Birthday, who's go the paddle!! 🙄
And this is the best birthday present ever!!! (Even though obviously it's just a big coincidence) I'm glad the wife won't see this! Yeah, I've thought of that idea too Steve, as there are some cool areas to fish in that stretch that you need a boat you can carry in order to fish.
Rick yeah, you'd have to carry a boat to get on Barton, you can fish below Barton dam down to the next dam (can't remember the name) you can put a boat in under M-14 there's a launch on the other side, but I think its for canoes. Geddes Pond has a launch you can fish up stream to the dam below Barton and down stream under US23 to the Dixboro dam. You can fish from the Dixboro dam down to the next dam buy the old papermill, caught some nice smallies there. Used to work about 3mi from the Dixboro dam and fish there at lunch time. There are some monster mansion downstream from Dixboro, I think owned by the Ford family and the waste treatment plant.
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