More muskie at bluegrass

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I was fishing bluegrass Monday while they were doing the control burns and started to talk to the DNR guy. he told me they were going to stock more muskie in bluegrass this year.. I asked if they could put walleye instead like they do at Potaka lake. He said NOPE. I just think it will hurt these small lakes. what do you guys think

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I was fishing bluegrass Monday while they were doing the control burns and started to talk to the DNR guy. he told me they were going to stock more muskie in bluegrass this year.. I asked if they could put walleye instead like they do at Potaka lake. He said NOPE. I just think it will hurt these small lakes. what do you guys think

Paul have you ever caught any Sauger at Bluegrass's pits? Anyone else know if there are any sauger in these pits. Sauger are in the Ohio River and during flooding the River waters can reach into Bluegrass's Otter Pit, Bluegrass Pit and Loon Pit. So if the other river trash fish like gar and bowfin can swim up Pigeon creek and Bluegrass creek I wonder if crappie, bass, catfish and sauger could too?

As far as the Muskie are concerned. I don't think that they will reproduce in these pits so the IDNR will have to continue to stock them to keep their populations up where they could do any harm.

My bet is that some fishermen will take them out of the water, if you know what I mean. That's what happened to the Northern Pike up at Patoka. They could not breed and reproduce up there and a lot of the bass fishermen feared them and killed any they caught in that lake. It didn't take long before nearly all the Norhterns were gone. I hear about one being found every so often but have not seen or caught one at Patoka since the late 1970's.

Now I'd love to see IDNR stock Walleyes in Bluegrass. I'd fish for them full time if they were in those waters in any numbers.

Anyone caught a muskie out of the pits at Bluegrass this last year or so?

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caught one about 15" last summer

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Paul have you ever caught any Sauger at Bluegrass's pits? Anyone else know if there are any sauger in these pits. Sauger are in the Ohio River and during flooding the River waters can reach into Bluegrass's Otter Pit, Bluegrass Pit and Loon Pit. So if the other river trash fish like gar and bowfin can swim up Pigeon creek and Bluegrass creek I wonder if crappie, bass, catfish and sauger could too?

As far as the Muskie are concerned. I don't think that they will reproduce in these pits so the IDNR will have to continue to stock them to keep their populations up where they could do any harm.

My bet is that some fishermen will take them out of the water, if you know what I mean. That's what happened to the Northern Pike up at Patoka. They could not breed and reproduce up there and a lot of the bass fishermen feared them and killed any they caught in that lake. It didn't take long before nearly all the Norhterns were gone. I hear about one being found every so often but have not seen or caught one at Patoka since the late 1970's.

Now I'd love to see IDNR stock Walleyes in Bluegrass. I'd fish for them full time if they were in those waters in any numbers.

Anyone caught a muskie out of the pits at Bluegrass this last year or so?

I ask them the same thing about stocking Walleyes and they said there was no way. Im like you i would love to have a walleye sandwhich

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I ask them the same thing about stocking Walleyes and they said there was no way. Im like you i would love to have a walleye sandwhich

I heard that Dan Carnahan is from up North. Which explains why he favors stocking Muskie in these pits and Walleyes in Patoka Lake. He grew up in the Northern USA where these are the main fish species in those Lakes up there.

I'd like to see some scientific research papers on how well these fish can survive in our wamer waters. I doubt that these Muskie can live below the thermocline as there may not be that much oxygen down there in the summer time. And the water temperature above the thermocline is not that cold in the summer months. I'd say that the thermocline in Bluegrass is around 26 to 27 ft. I took some temperature profiles of that lake a few years back but can't remember the temperatures near that depth in July and August. But it's relatively warm as compared to an Oligotrophic type lake in Northern Canada.

Still I like the idea of being able to have a chance to catch a muskie once in a while. I'd go to Patoka Lake to fish for Walleyes more often if gas prices were not so high.

[JustinM]

Muskie seem to be easier to catch in loon than bluegrass. I've caught 2 out of loon always very early in the spring and on rattletraps. And yes there are sauger in bluegrass and loon.

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you can go to in, dnr website to see there survey on muskies the last one was 2010 i think, they are suppose to do one this yr. too

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you can go to in, dnr website to see there survey on muskies the last one was 2010 i think, they are suppose to do one this yr. too

Thanks for the heads up. I looked it up and here is the link to that report for Loon Pit 2010. Actually it's the fisherman's survey report based on reports of the various fishermen who talked to the IDNR survery team on the lake after they finished the day fishing.

http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/files...eel_Survey.pdf

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Muskie seem to be easier to catch in loon than bluegrass. I've caught 2 out of loon always very early in the spring and on rattletraps. And yes there are sauger in bluegrass and loon.

Good to see you back in here JustinM. I wondered where you went. thanks for the info. I hope I get to do some fishing this year at Bluegrass.