could there be fish in this lake?

[itsasmallfarm]

Sounds like a great place for ducks!

it is, lots of wild ducks, how ever i live two hours away from this farm/lake.

 

[Parront]

it is, lots of wild ducks, how ever i live two hours away from this farm/lake.

Too bad. I sometimes drive 2 hours for a fishing trip, to your own lake it would be worth it!

 

[sawilliams]

heck 2 hours is a perfect when's get away... fishing, camping, and your closer to daily if anything happens

 

[itsasmallfarm]

Too bad. I sometimes drive 2 hours for a fishing trip, to your own lake it would be worth it!

its not a bad drive, we bird hunt quite a bit down there in the fall, i would love to fish down there but its tough to convince the family as we have lakes with in 30 minutes (one lake last year my day caught over 100 perch in a day) but we travel an hour and a half when were camping up north to some trout lakes

heck 2 hours is a perfect when's get away... fishing, camping, and your closer to daily if anything happens

ya its awesome, really excited to try and fish this place, we travel 4 hours north just to camp for the summer lol.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

well another update here.

my grandparents think there may be perch in the lake, they think about 50 or more years ago someone in the family might of took a bucket of live fish and let them go. what got them interested in this idea is old timers (like 70 years ago) would put there extra live fish in every lake and pond they had. they never thought of fishing these now stocked ponds just thought the fish would die. so going to try and fish this lake

 

[Ursuline Chick]

well another update here.

my grandparents think there may be perch in the lake, they think about 50 or more years ago someone in the family might of took a bucket of live fish and let them go. what got them interested in this idea is old timers (like 70 years ago) would put there extra live fish in every lake and pond they had. they never thought of fishing these now stocked ponds just thought the fish would die. so going to try and fish this lake

My guess is that 70 years ago people thought if times got lean they could always fish the pond and have meat for the table. 70 years ago is not far from the depression area. Good luck with the fishing. Enjoy

 

[itsasmallfarm]

My guess is that 70 years ago people thought if times got lean they could always fish the pond and have meat for the table. 70 years ago is not far from the depression area. Good luck with the fishing. Enjoy

ya the land was my great great grandparents, who gave the land to my great grand parents who pasted it down to my grandparents, so my guess is the land has been in the family for well over a hundred years. which puts it in the depression area.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

ya the land was my great great grandparents, who gave the land to my great grand parents who pasted it down to my grandparents, so my guess is the land has been in the family for well over a hundred years. which puts it in the depression area.

You are so lucky to have the land as a family legacy. I hope it remains in the family forever. Let us know how the fishing is and don't fish the pond out. LOL Is the house still on the property, cause I would be drooling!!

 

[itsasmallfarm]

You are so lucky to have the land as a family legacy. I hope it remains in the family forever. Let us know how the fishing is and don't fish the pond out. LOL Is the house still on the property, cause I would be drooling!!

sorry for not replying
there is an old barn/work shop, a chicken coop and some old grain bins. all well over 50 years old most are falling apart.

now for the lake itself went to go fishing a day or so ago and did not catch anything

how ever there where hundreds of baby fish every where in the water, maybe less then half an inch long now gotta go back and see what else is in the lake.

super awesome!!!!

 

[itsasmallfarm]

update:

now hunting season is here, we went down to this lake for the weekend (to do work, hunt and fish) so i threw out a leech/crayfish trap. (hoping to catch some bait) and when i checked it later maybe 200-300 minnows where in the trap. think there shiners