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State Wildlife Agency Tests Fish Attractors On Lake Griffin

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For decades Lake Griffin has been known to be one of the most polluted lakes in the state of Florida, so it has become a center of attention over the last decade for all the experts to come together to improve the water quality of this once great lake and restore it to a quality fishing lake. Today, their efforts are showing huge leaps forward in restoring this lake and they are now creating artificial reefs and structure in this lake to test its ability to attract and hold fish for us bass fishermen!

 

If it works on Lake Griffin, this effort will be expanded across the state!

 

State wildlife agency tests fish attractors on Lake Griffin

 

June 18, 2014|By Rosemarie Dowell, Correspondent
 

LEESBURG — Two lone boats glided effortlessly across the quiet waters of Lake Griffin and headed toward their destination near the opposite shore of the nearly 10,000-acre lake in Leesburg.

 

Within minutes, the vessels slowed to a crawl and Brandon Thompson, a fisheries biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission deftly guided his agency's boat into position, hovering over a large area marked with buoys bobbing at the surface.

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pixel.gifSoon, he pushed 10 plastic tree-like structures, about 5 feet tall and a yard or so wide, into the water. From the other boat, Fisheries Resource Coordinator Dennis Renfro, watched as each of the latest in fish attractor technology floated to the bottom below.

 

Welcome to a FWC experiment that pits traditional old-school brush attractors, used for decades, against the new modern plastic design, being used for the first time in Florida, said Renfro, a 31-year veteran of the commission who lives in Eustis.

 

"The question is, will fish congregate on the plastic attractors like they do on the traditional brush ones," said Renfro, who oversees the water bodies on the Harris Chain of Lakes, which, besides Griffin, includes lakes Apopka, Beauclair, Carlton, Dora, Eustis, Yale, Little Lake Harris and Harris.

 

(Click on link to read entire article:)

 

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2014-06-18/news/os-lk-fish-attractors-leesburg-20140618_1_attractors-renfro-plastic

 

Central and NE Florida FWC fishing guide:

 

http://myfwc.com/media/300613/freshwater_nefishingguide.pdf

 

South Florida region FWC fishing guide:

 

http://myfwc.com/media/300756/freshwater_south_ffguide.pdf

 

Statewide FWC fishing guide and Florida fishing laws and regulations:

 

http://myfwc.com/media/2285551/12FLFW-LR-AD-FREE.pdf

 

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