Ft Knox's Lower Douglas Lake

[ErikSmith]

Took the boy and the canoe out to lower douglas on Ft Knox. Caught a bunch of bluegill, a couple small bass, and 1 keeper largemouth. On the way back to the truck out in the middle of the lake, we saw a fish pop the surface, and I thought it was going to be a striper. Casted a white rooster tail over next to it, and hooked the largemouth that first cast. I put everything back, so some of you other guys could have some fun too. Water was super clear, and warm. The boy had a blast just paddling around, we saw turtles, and had a snake come up right next to the boat and was staring at us like "give me a fish". gorgeous couple hours out on the water.

Question-Is the fishing better in lower douglas or upper douglas?

[FiletAndRelease]

Upper Douglas has a ton of bluegills, they are small but abundent. I think they are stunted due to over-population. You can get around in a conoe pretty good in there too. I dont know how the bass bite is in there, I only fished it for bluegills with the kids. Theres a pond up on the north end of post that was great bass fishing, hardly anyone ever fished it because you had to portage thru some pretty thick stuff, but once in there it was unreal. I cant remember the name right now, not even sure if you can still get to it. Maybe someone else on here knows the one I'm talking about.

[Fishstixx]

I've caught more bass in upper douglas than lower. But I'm restricted to bank fishing so most of the spots there are fished to death.

[Fishstixx]

Upper Douglas has a ton of bluegills, they are small but abundent. I think they are stunted due to over-population. You can get around in a conoe pretty good in there too. I dont know how the bass bite is in there, I only fished it for bluegills with the kids. Theres a pond up on the north end of post that was great bass fishing, hardly anyone ever fished it because you had to portage thru some pretty thick stuff, but once in there it was unreal. I cant remember the name right now, not even sure if you can still get to it. Maybe someone else on here knows the one I'm talking about.

I think you might be talking about the ordinance lakes. there is quite a few lakes on post. The main ones are ordinance 1 and 2 also upper/lower douglas and there is saunder springs on post as well. There is like 4-5 more lakes that can only be fished on the weekends or certain days beacuse they are on ranges and it depends if the ranges are live or not you have to check in with the on post wildlife guys to get cleared to go out to them and see whats open.