Cool little lake game and parks built...

Nice, looks well thought out.

Yeah they did a great job , it was built on a small creek plain that was pretty much level besides the creek bed, they enough man made and natural structure/cover to fill a fleet of semis haha, i walked it for a couple weeks before they filled it with my handheld and marked a ton of stuff.. just opened this spring and you can catch dozens and dozens of 12-14 inchers..cant wait for another year or two, theyre gonna grow fast!

It's been 35years, but DeKalb county here in Illinois did a similar thing. Placed cribs, and rock piles around the lake, built a handicap deck on a point where the water depth drops within casting distance, added a golf course style club house and a tackle and boat rental shop.  It was designed for fishermen and the only downside is that there is a 10hp. limit for outboards.

I'd be on that lake every other week if they'd ever switch it to no wake.  They introduced muskie shortly after flooding, but for the first five years or so, the crappie and bass fishing was awesome. Three muskie state records have come out of it.

Hopefully, this lake is close to you so that you can take advantage of it and witness it's progression into a great fishery/

It's been 35years, but DeKalb county here in Illinois did a similar thing. Placed cribs, and rock piles around the lake, built a handicap deck on a point where the water depth drops within casting distance, added a golf course style club house and a tackle and boat rental shop.  It was designed for fishermen and the only downside is that there is a 10hp. limit for outboards.

I'd be on that lake every other week if they'd ever switch it to no wake.  They introduced muskie shortly after flooding, but for the first five years or so, the crappie and bass fishing was awesome. Three muskie state records have come out of it.

Hopefully, this lake is close to you so that you can take advantage of it and witness it's progression into a great fishery/

Yes its within 20 mins from home. In 05 or 06 game and parks drained the lake i learned how to fish on after it silted in and with money from our habitat reabilitation program dug out around alot of the shoreline,added riprap jetties and breakwaters etc... then refilled in 08. Between last fall and now ive caught more master angler bass from that lake than all the rest put together. The whole lake is good for most species now. On top of that they have just started building another lake like the one i posted about but almost double in size literally within a 3 min drive from home! Very excited.. the local lakes around here all have a 5mph no wake speed limit on them wich is great because i also am mot a fan of having boat wakes all over when fishing these small lakes,big lakes dont bother because theres room to go fast..