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Prairie Oaks Metro Park lakes open?

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#1 ·
Wanted to get some fishing in today while the weather was still beautiful, but rivers are all blown up around me, does anyone know if the three Prairie Oaks Metro Park Lakes are ice free?
 
#4 ·
I ended up not going Tuesday because I wanted to take my Kayak out , but it was too damn windy to yak in a open lake like that, so I ended up fishing from the shore at Antrim , ended up doing pretty good with the trout. Can't wait to get my Yak out on a large pond or small lake like the ones at Prairie Oaks to target those pre-spawn largemouths.
 
#10 ·
I know they do a release around April. Not sure if they still do two releases though. There are a bunch of trout in Antrim. They release a thousand or so every year. Could only imagine float tubing the middle of that thing in the deeper/cooler water I would think there are some real nice ones in there.
 
#11 ·
I stand corrected, they do release in April and have been doing so for last few years. So the ones I caught have been surviving in that lake for at least one year.

-I don't know if they do this anymore , but they used to stock a few of the big breeders in Antrim along with the thousands of small ones. If you do a search on this site you will find some old pictures of guys and girls catching monster brown and rainbow trout out of Antrim.
 
#13 ·

Many moons ago... But a few big breeders I landed years ago. The one I mounted was a PB 11LB monster...

ONDR stopped putting the big breeders in Antrim Lake several years ago. It was a circus when they were stocked but many good memories landing those brutes on light line.... ONDR found a cheaper way to due their breeding & stocking programs around the State...
 
#15 ·
Odnr stocked 300 surplus rainbows right around thanksgiving in a handful of normally spring stocked lakes including Antrim. This is not a typical occurrence, and was due to better than average production (hatching and rearing success). Antrim receives right around 3k trout annually in late March or April (2018 stocking dates should be posted soon on odnr website).
 
#16 ·
Tuesday afternoon I took my kayak out on Beaver lake in Prairie Oaks, skunked but to be honest I spent more time playing with my new fish finder then fishing, and I was only out for about two hours. I will say the water was very muddy.
Question, Is there always a chain up preventing people from backing up all the way the lake on the boat ramps?
 
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