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11/29/2006
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Largemouth bass
restriction to be lifted at SWEPCO Lake |
 GENTRY
– It is seldom that a body of water has too many largemouth bass, but
that’s the case with SWEPCO Lake, a power company impoundment in far
northwest Arkansas, near Gentry.
The lake serves as a cooling facility for a power generating plant of
South West Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO), and its warm water year round
has resulted in bass action for anglers evening the coldest periods of
the year.
The fishing has been catch and release only for bass for the past seven
years, but Arkansas Game and Fish Commission fisheries biologists have
found the largemouths are too crowded. Anglers have complained of
“skinny” bass also, according to biologists.
On January 1, the bass rule will change for SWEPCO Lake. Anglers can
keep up to 10 largemouth bass a day, but only one of them can be longer
than 18 inches.
By reducing the number of bass in the lake, which is open to the public
for fishing, biologists expect overall conditions to improve for the
fish. |
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