I've heard its over 100 meters deep in the middle, and catfish the size of Volkswagens swim there! plus, several more state record saugeye.



There are a couple threads on here where the depths of Antrim are discussed.

 

But can you put a canoe in Antrim?

 

perchy no boats .steethe you hear wrong. that saugeye was a anomaly.Just a flook.Try again

 

perchy no boats .steethe you hear wrong. that saugeye was a anomaly.Just a flook.Try again

as long as I was right about the Volkswagen sized cats!!!

 

seethe303, you are way off with that guess. We use to train there while I was in the fire dept with rescue boats and yes, it was deep but nothing that deep. The deepest may be 50-60 feet where the springs are. Maybe a little deeper now but nothing 100 meters. There are no topo maps that I know of. It is a City lake so check with the Columbus Parks and Rec. they will be able to tell you for sure. It as built by taking the dirt as fill for 315 when it was being built years ago. Great lake to fish though. I'm sure there are other saugeyes in there but not many. As for large cats, never heard of any real big one coming from there, but who knows. They stock it with trout several times a year so they would have great feed to grow big

 

you are wishen.

 

heh, for those who couldn't tell, my posts were 99% sarcasm based on several other threads on here discussing the possible "massive" depths of Antrim!

I am still holding out for another record saugeye to come out of Antrim though, I have a lot of money riding on it in my state record fish office pool.

 

New Breed drug me to that hole a couple times. Never again!

 

At least there aren't any giant bass in that lake

 

Out of curiosity, how did the Saugeye get there? Random stockings of left-over hatchery fish? Kept alive and stocked by fishermen returning from local spillways? Possible cross-overs from the 'tangy during flooding? Was it ever stocked the same way Hoover, Alum, etc... are?

 

IMO someone caught the eye in the Olentangy and tossed it in the lake for fun. As most of you know the river runs only a stones throw from the lake. As for how big it was when it was tossed in I have no idea.

I dont think they're going to print a topo map for a lake so small that a 2 mile walking track encirlces it.

 

Well most of the thoughts on this thread are "some what true" Antrum was a barrow pit from when 315 was built in the late 60's & during the dig they hit the water table & that filled the lake so fast the some equitment was lost in the lowest point (over 50 feet I'm told) The imfo comes from a former ODOT worker but he also is a fishermen so it could be a lie..

The Saugeye's are River jumpers from when the flood passed over the south wall in the mid to early 90's and I have seen proof that they are no fluke catch but to say tons..naa. The only big one I have cought (about 6 pounds) was during ice out and when he was on the cutting table had a 12" rainbow in his guts.

I hate to tell this story because it makes me want to cry but in the 90's I worked with a bunch of old guys who night fished the Lake with big goldfish for cats but one night they came in saying they cought a giant Bass and if I had not weighed the fish myself I would say BS but they had a 23" Smallie that was 7.6 pounds and you could have stuck a nurf football in her mouth. That poor fish had a cornmill covered end with those clowns,I even offered to buy it just so it could live but they were set on eating it. They never talked of big cats (10 pounders) but they said they had cought Musky but I never seen any.

 

Don't know about musky. I have caught grass pickerel there, though.

 

There is a local underground group that has mapped much of antrim with kayaks and sonar/depth finders. Those that are interested in obtaining the map are required to go stealth and map a part of the lake that has not yet been mapped.

As far as fish in antrim, although the state does not claim to have stocked saugeye, other people "MAY" have stocked saugeye at some point. Same with muskies. There are certain parts of the lake that are "hot spots". I recommend live bait fished deep. Try bringing a 9-10 foot rod for extra long casts on the northeast side.

If you have specific questions that you were hoping to have answered after getting a topo map, feel free to PM me, as I have access to data from certain parts of the lake.

People bag on Antrim all the time because they cruise to other lakes and "slop" fish for largemouths, etc...They go to Antrim and their techniques don't work.

 

Many moons ago, we went skinny-dipping just after it filled and before it was an official park. Ahhh, the day. But anyway, I am almost certain that they stocked some Channel cats in there a few years ago. I don't know if they did it more than once.

Too bad you can't go in the water, it would be a great place for a tube.

 

Are saugeye a "sterile" fish or can they reproduce? I read that many ponds get fish in them when birds, ducks being the most common, pick up eggs in their feathers and they drop off when they land elsewhere. Bluegills lay the most eggs of any fish which is why the often populate a "new pond" first. know there is a great variety of fish in Antrim and I figured some of them got in there that way.
I do have a "map" in my head of Antrim. When there was a drought in the 80' the lake dropped very low and "gave up" a look at some serious structure.
Antrim is not easy to fish, except when they dump the trout, but it some fantastic fish in it. Since it isn't easy there are many who won't fish it which is fine with me because I love the lake and would prefer not to have that much fishing pressure on it.

 

Ha, this is the stuff urban legends are made of. What a good thread.

 

Ha, this is the stuff urban legends are made of. What a good thread.

agreed. This is one reason I find Antrim particularly interesting, even if its not in a lake I want to fish often (despite the fact I live so close). On all of these Antrim threads someone comes out and makes really cool/interesting claims (NOT calling anyone a liar, I beg of you, don't think that).

JamesT, how can we know what part of the lake hasn't been mapped yet if we don't have the map first?

edit: I know that Antrim isn't a strip mine, but it seems to me that strip mines and similar lakes often hold a lot of mystique and urban legends about them. Maybe because they can be so deep?

 

There's a monster in that lake! I seen it myself so it MUST be true!



CG

 

I have to believe that drop-shotting from a tube would be killer in certain parts of that lake.

 

I may have fished this lake by canoe and kayak more than a few times in my younger days while at OSU I may have even been drug out of there by "the man" late at night while kayak fishing - twice

It is definately a deep lake - I never had sonar so don't have any "inside" info there. It does hold some large fish - Big bass, trout and catfish I can personally gaurantee. It would not surprise me if that little lake has a 30lb+ channel cat swimming in there:B

And, the antrim nest monster of course

 

Who patrols it at night? Columbus Police or ODNR? Anybody been caught there after hours? What was the result?
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Who patrols it at night? Columbus Police or ODNR?

columbus.it is a cit ark and under their jurisdiction.

 

I am almost positive somebody must have called in on me whan I had my little "run ins". There is no other way anybody could have known I was in there (to my knowledge). It was a C-bus officer both times. Both times = same result - run my ID and NOTHING! Saw a light shining across the lake and officer tells me to come over there. Ask what I am doing (even though it is obvious since I am holding fishing rod). Ask me if I know the park is closed and also there is no floatation devices permitted there. Sends me home. Both times they were actually friendly and the one time the solo officer even talked fishing and helped me drag my stuff back to the lot. He waited in the lot and BS'd with me until my ride came from campus (girlfriend dropped off and picked up), then followed us out of the park.

This was 10+ years ago and I don't know if they would just chase you off now or send you to court to pay a ticket? In those days I didn't care about paying tickets as I paid enough parking tickets to start a retirement account and nearly lost my driver's license while at OSU Times have changed and I haven't even had a speeding ticket since 2001.

 

I am almost positive somebody must have called in on me whan I had my little "run ins". There is no other way anybody could have known I was in there (to my knowledge). It was a C-bus officer both times. I haven't even had a speeding ticket since 2001.

Columbus Police check the lake every night. I know for a fact they have been doing it for way over 15 years. The sub station is about 1/4 mile south of the lake. I bought anyone called, my guess is they were checking and saw you. I know they usually let fisherman stay if they look innocent
I haven't had any tickets since 1969 myself and that was while I was in the Air Force in North Carolina.