Prospertown Lake Almost Empty?

[jtjr09]

Stop there today on my way home and fish and game was netting fish and moving them to a truck. They were out in the lake in a large flat bottom boat netting fish into livewells and then bringin them to shore. On shore was one of the trout stocking trucks being filled up with fish from the boat. Tried to ask what was going on and didnt really get an answer.

Dam looks fine, my quess would be that maybe one of the levies on the great adventure side may have broke, or they are emptying it to do some dredging or something.

Like I said the fish and game guys were quite quiet about what was going on.

[Mark B.]

The outlet pipe, which extends out into the lake from the verticle cement outlet structure, is broken.

NJF&W is boat electrofishing, transferring fish to Turnmill Pond @ Colliers Mills WMA. Yesterday, yeilded a number of nice slab sized black crappies, blue gills, yellow perch & brown bullheads. Only a few small LMB's (expecting larger ones, today). All gizzard shad were destroyed.

Silver lining in all of this is that the fish are going to Turnmill Pond, where this weekend, kids will fishing @ the Outdoor Expo.

http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/expo.htm

[Mark B.]

Taking a break today, waiting for it to lower some more to concentrate the remaining fish.

Will be back @ it, tomorrow.

If anyone wants some gizzard shad, stop by. Their flesh, & especially their actual gizzards,......are very deadly channel cat bait.

[Ol Pedro]

Mark , is the lake closed to fishing ?

[Mark B.]

No, u can fish it.