I guess I am like you, I loved to fish that old lake, so this week I went to the Stanford Mayor and made a phone call to the Stanford Water department asking the same question. We can thank the folks who thought that was the alternate dumping grounds for Lincoln County. We can think the dope heads who thought that is was a place to do DOPE, and also to the fools who parked there vehicle across a ditch and changed there oil and letting the oil run in to the ditch witch could have gotten to the water supply.
I was told the gate was put up to keep vehicles out but you could walk in, so know we can think the people who could not police up after there self's, so now they don't even want you to walk into it. I talked to them about doing like Liberty does, charge a membership fee for fishing it, and was told for now its just going to be off limits. I understand why this had to happen, I just hate what other people have taken away something from me once again.
Maybe in the future we might get that old lake back.
Billy