indiana is awful! where do you rate it?

[bassmanic1]

The fishing in Indiana is what you make of it . A lot of guys dont have the funds to pay for a trip down south and the out-of-state lis. fee's . Personaly I fish a lot of strip pits in southern IN which is fairly loaded with them . Most have towns close by for gas & bait . Greene Sullivan , Minnehaha , and all the 1000's of unnamed pits across the state . Dogwood , West Boggs , Brookville all have good fishing and you dont need a 20' Ranger to fish them . Hovey Lake used to be known all over the mid-west for crappie fishing but Ducks Unlimited and the DNR took care of that . The Ohio river gives up massive catches of monster catfish and Cabelas held a catfish tourny there not long ago . All in all I wouldnt call IN fishing "awful" . I think EVERYBODY is a bit grumpy due to the price of gas , which I believe is the government is behind to stop global warming .

[olducker]

The fishing in Indiana is what you make of it . A lot of guys dont have the funds to pay for a trip down south and the out-of-state lis. fee's . Personaly I fish a lot of strip pits in southern IN which is fairly loaded with them . Most have towns close by for gas & bait . Greene Sullivan , Minnehaha , and all the 1000's of unnamed pits across the state . Dogwood , West Boggs , Brookville all have good fishing and you dont need a 20' Ranger to fish them . Hovey Lake used to be known all over the mid-west for crappie fishing but Ducks Unlimited and the DNR took care of that . The Ohio river gives up massive catches of monster catfish and Cabelas held a catfish tourny there not long ago . All in all I wouldnt call IN fishing "awful" . I think EVERYBODY is a bit grumpy due to the price of gas , which I believe is the government is behind to stop global warming .

Please give me more on why Hovey Lake was messed up by the DU and Indiana DNR. I assumed it was all Indiana DNR fault. The fact they redid the drain.

The fact they shut down the camping, because they were too lazy or did have money put in Handicap access which ever it was not good.

Yes I do catch a lot of fish in Indiana, but since I have retired, I have had a chance to fish several other states and Canada and I have had a chnace to see what GOOD MANAGEMENT can do. Indiana DNR does not put out the effort and put their money in the right places. It is not the entire DNR but probably the top pencil pushers and a few poor property managers.

I know most of the Southern Indiana Conservation officers and they do a great job