Turtle creek ( Merom )

I recently retired and moved back into the area, what in the world has happend to Turtle creek res. It used to be great bass fishing but now nothing

A few years ago the grass and lilly pads started to disappear. Now there isn't any and there is very few bass in the lake. Nobody will admit what happened to the cover. Diffently ruined a great lake.

Larry Plummer

The water got too hot, trash fish became overpopulated, largemouth bass experienced extremely low recruitment, and whomever is trying to manage the fishery has failed miserably, but under pretty tough conditions.

Back in the early 90s Turtle Creek was one of the best places i had ever fished,and haven't been since then I would have never thought it would be like it is now , I could remember skippping school and driving 3 hours just to fish there lol

Seems like the lake silted in quite a bit too, as it's tougher to find those old clay bottoms with any decent depths. At least they started restocking bass, as well as other species, to help improve things. Still, the population of fish is way down, even though you can still catch some big fish out there.

You need to make a run over to Newton Lake, IL, instead. Great lake and about the same time to drive there from Indy.

still some toads in there but no way close to the old days. Last time I went was very early last spring . Everyone that was fishing (all 3 boats) went up into the warm water , I swung up into the south arm by the turkey farm and had a real good day. I think I caught 2 keepers and quite afew smaller but a lot of fun. caught them on a black neon tube and a black and blue jig if my old memory serves me right. Also try the ledges down by the dam they still hold some fish. If you eat fish rig up a baitcaster with a big dd16 chrome or white and catch all the catfish you want I don't think they have a limit (check I could be wrong)good luck...