My home town is Stanford, Ky. As a kid I fished the Dix between Stanford and Lancaster and Hanging Fork between Stanford and Danville. In 50's and 60's this river and stream were filled with good fish, but as pollution increased the fish numbers dropped drastically. The Hanging Fork was filled with good SM in those years, and then the derailment occured sometime in the 60's which allowed oil to pill into the stream and it killed everything down to the Dix. The stream was never restocked so Hanging Fork never recovered. That derailment was never reported so very few knew about except the land owners in that area.

I have said all of that to say this. When the news to build a trophy bass lake between Stanford and Crab Orchard, I was excited because never had there been such plans before made to have a special project with prospects of trophy bass available, especially in this area. But it did not take long after it was build and stock to see the hand writting on the wall. When they did not place motor restrictions on this small lake, it was only time when the lake would become just an ordinary lake like Wilgreen, Cornith or Beaver. When the fish can not come to the bank to feed, lay their eggs, or the fishmen can not top-water the mossbeds at dark without being washed into the shore, it becomes a frustrating lake to fish. For that reason after three fishing trips a year ago, I have stopped fishing the lake because I fish for relaxation, and the fact of being thrown about my boat throughout a day's fishing is not the way I want to fish and I don't care how big the bass will get in this lake. Until a restriction of speed is place on this lake, I will not return, and I have a year's start on that promise.