Relocating Largemouth Bass

Type: Nontidal
Region: Western
Location: Greenbriar Lake

Inland Fisheries recently conducted an electrofishing effort at Greenbriar Lake to remove excess largemouth bass. High reproduction in recent years has resulted in too many small bass that compete with one another for the available prey. This results in slow growing, underweight bass and few surviving sunfish. Over 100 largemouth bass less than 12 inches in length (all bass over 12 inches were returned) were removed and stocked into nearby public community ponds in need of bass. This management action combined with similar efforts last fall should improve bass fishing at Greenbriar Lake. Although bass are currently very abundant at Greenbriar, there are some lunkers out there! Here are a couple of trophy bass held by Fisheries Technician Josh Henesy that were collected and returned to the lake.