Quote Originally Posted by condusivecranker View Post
I have also heard stripers are stocked in that lake. What do you know about those?
Hybrids, not stripers, definitely were stocked in that lake just about a year ago. I had a hard time believing it myself, so I emailed Kerry Prather (fisheries biologist with KDFWR), and he confirmed this. I mentioned that it seemed awfully small for them, and his response was that they were only put there to provide fishing opportunities, not to establish a population. I think they only did it because the hatchery produced a bumper crop of hybrids in 2006 (http://fw.ky.gov/070606.asp). I'm also virtually certain that they all died out. I fish there quite often, and haven't seen or heard of anybody catching any. But what I DID see Tuesday evening was a 12# catfish being caught there. Amazing, huh?