Turtle Creek Res. ( Merom )

[slipbobber]

Use to have some huge crappies in their also .Thats what happens to a lake when you have people running the place that don't know what their doing.

[muskyman87]

The old days still keep me coming back there from time to time. Not like the past though.

Still, there are some good fish in the lake,even today, but since the lake has changed so much there are just fewer spots that produce than in the past. This is the part I have a hard time with. Two years ago I caught 30 fish off one 50ft section of bank. I just anchored off it and pitched soft plastics all day. We caught fish but kind of boring when they were all smaller fish and off the same spot.

I keep hoping thing will turn-around sometime and pick back up again. Not going to hold my breath for that one, however.

[Skeeter_22I]

I was there on the 8th and 9th all day. We caught two catfish on the first day and two more on the second day. We were trowing crankbaits, rattletraps, jerkbaits, and soft plastics. Water was 75 at the bouys and around 52 at the ramp. Big disappointment! Three years ago it was nothing to catch 10-15 5 pounders a day. The HP limit is 10, but I used my 300HP all day at idle and was told that it OK.

[GeoFisher]

Use to have some huge crappies in their also .Thats what happens to a lake when you have people running the place that don't know what their doing.

Dude........the lake was PRIMARILY a cooling LAKE and secondarily a fishery. You're LUCKY you ever got the chance to fish it to begin with. MOST cooling lakes around the country are OFF LIMITS........

I'd love to see it get back to the glory days, but BITCHING about the management when it was REALLY NEVER supposed to be an ALL-STAR fishery is wrong, if you ask me.........

Later,

Geo

[slipbobber]

Dude........the lake was PRIMARILY a cooling LAKE and secondarily a fishery. You're LUCKY you ever got the chance to fish it to begin with. MOST cooling lakes around the country are OFF LIMITS........

I'd love to see it get back to the glory days, but BITCHING about the management when it was REALLY NEVER supposed to be an ALL-STAR fishery is wrong, if you ask me.........

Later,

Geo

Sorry, but Com-ED had three plants up here in Illinois that has been producing been producing a good fishery for years

[roadrunner]

I live 25 miles from the lake I can not tell you how many days I caught over 100 bass in the three pound range with some 4 and 5 thrown in. You could pattern this lake just like they teach it in the book and go back every day and catch fish on the same patterns. It was great great great. I would leave work hook up the boat be on the water at 5:00 leave at 8:30 and just catch fish after fish.

As for some one not knowing how to manage the fishery it was turned over to the state to manage I think Geo was right they had to generate both units all summer and killed all the weeds then the bass died out over a period off about five years. The crappie died off before this happened there became a time where all you could catch was 1 1/2 to 2 lb crappie then none.

I have not fished there since it died out about ten years ago but I keep praying it will come back.

[Stevens]

i agree that its hard to put the blame on management. The plant has the final say on what happens. Last time i visited which was 2 years i think the man working there told me that grass was getting into the water intake causing problems so the plant killed the grass off, and im sure high water temps. contributed to the decline in fishing also. i never got to experience the glory days tho, just read about them in my brothers older magazines.