Hardy lake anybody ?

[KentuckyYakass]

Thanks for the input.

[OldMcDonald]

DNR did post a new report for Hardy lake just today.

[GeoFisher]

do you have a link?

I cannot find it.......

Thanks,

Geo

[OldMcDonald]

Keep in mind the weather has changed since this report was posted. Heres the report:
Hardy Lake - 2005/09/26 11:08
This page was last updated on SEP 26 2005 01:20 P.M..

Hardy Lake
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Description:


A 741-acre lake, Hardy Lake is located in Scottsburg in Scott County. Facilities include an archery range, basketball and volleyball courts, horseshoe pits, boating ramps, camping, and cultural arts programs. The reservoir also has hunting and fishing, hiking, interpretive programs, picnicking, rowboat rentals, shelterhouses, a swimming beach and waterskiing.




Fish


Black crappie
Description:
Sunfishes include some of the best-known fish in Indiana. Bluegill, redear sunfish, black and white crappie, largemouth, spotted and smallmouth bass are all members of the sunfish family. The Black crappie has seven to eight dorsal spines, as well as some random blotches on it's sides.

Bait: Minnows and tube jigs baits
Depth: 10ft to 12ft


Comments about fish:

Activity is slow. Most activity at dusk or night.
Bluegill
Description:
Sunfishes include some of the best-known fish in Indiana. Bluegill, redear sunfish, black and white crappie, largemouth, spotted and smallmouth bass are all members of the sunfish family. The bluegill has five to nine vertical bars on its sides, a black opercle flat (ear) with no margin and a dark spot at the rear of it's dorsal fin.

Bait: beemoths and crickets
Depth: 15'to 20'


Comments about fish:

Activity is good. Best activity near stumps.
Channel catfish
Description:
The channel catfish has a smooth scaleless skin and barbels on its face resembling cat whiskers. The barbels help the channel catfish taste and feel objects and enable it to locate food in dark and turbid water. The channel catfish has 24-29 rays in its rounded anal fin. The caudal fin is deeply forked and the fish has dark spots on its sides when young.

Bait: Night Crawlers, blood baits and liver
Depth: 10ft to 20ft


Comments about fish:

Fishing activity is normal. Best activity at night.
Largemouth bass
Description:
Sunfishes include some of the best-known fish in Indiana. Bluegill, redear sunfish, black and white crappie, largemouth, spotted and smallmouth bass are all members of the sunfish family. On the largemouth bass, the upper jaw extends beyond back of eye, differentiating the fish from the smallmouth bass. The largemouth bass commonly reached six pounds.

Bait: Various artificial Baits
Depth: Various depths


Comments about fish:

Activity is good.
Muskellunge
Description:
Members of the Pike family, the muskellunge, tiger muskellunge and northern pike have established themselves as remarkable adversaries through the years. The muskie, native to Indiana, is now usually found in stocked bodies of water. The northern pike, a voracious eater and popular among anglers, can be found in northern Indiana in natural lakes and streams. The muskie has three distinct color patterns, including green to silver "clear" sides, dark spots or dark vertical bars, six or more sensory pores on each side and scales covering only the top half of both cheeks. The muskie can weigh 10-20 pounds, but can reach weights over 30 pounds and lengths up to four feet long. Lures up to 12 inches are designed to resemble medium-sized fish and even small ducks.

Bait: Crank Bait
Depth: 10 to 15 ft.


Comments about fish:

Activity slow, not many fishermen fishing for them.
Redear sunfish
Description:
Sunfishes include some of the best-known fish in Indiana. Bluegill, redear sunfish, black and white crappie, largemouth, spotted and smallmouth bass are all members of the sunfish family. The redear sunfish has an opercle flap (ear) that is tipped with a red or orange margin.

Bait: live worms and crickets
Depth: 7' to 20'


Comments about fish:

Same activity as Bluegill.
Striped bass
Description:
These bass belong to the temperate bass family. Temperate basses include the true fresh water basses, white and yellow bass, and the striped bass, which originally lived in the Atlantic Ocean but can live its entire life in fresh water. Temperate basses often school far from shore and feed on schooling fish. Hybrid striped bass are a cross of white and striped bass. The striped bass has tooth patches on back of tongue in two parallel patches, first stripe below lateral line complete to tail, stripes above lateral line are unbroken.

Bait: Shad raps and tube jigs
Depth: open water


Comments about fish:

Activity is good.

Comments about body of water:


Water temp at surface low to mid 70 degrees. Normal pool.

[Viper201]

Try fishing spooks or buzzbaits over the submerged grass in front of the beach.Try the deeper grass that extends out into the lake between 50 and 100 yards,there are quite a few schools of bass in that area right now.Caught a lot of fish right there on top in the last two weeks,no big fish but a lot of numbers in the 12-14 inch size range.You'll see the most activity when there's some kind of chop on the water,even waves from boat traffic seem to get them in the feeding mode.When its calm you can fish the same area with small texas rigged worms and do ok also.