Electrofishing The Faver Lake

We electrofished the Faver Lake owned by good friend and Outdoors Show founder Captain Kevin Faver.  Kevin and his son Colton did a great job dipping fish as they dipped about 150 largemouth bass, bluegill and redear sunfish with a few black crappie, warmouth and golden shiners mixed in 12 minutes of peddle time. In other words they were working and worked up a sweat! The largemouth and all other fish were more plentiful than two years ago, and now the bass need to be thinned to promote growth of the fish remaining. It appears there is plenty of food for bass under 10 inches and over 18 inches, just not much available for the middle size individuals, which is typical for a waterbody with little bass harvest. We will be stocking some additional forage and Kevin will be having more fish fries with bass 12-16 inches in length this year. We will also be gathering additional lengths & weights during the shiner fishing tournament between the Favers and Schulte's in a couple weeks to varify the larger bass have plenty to eat, but I am betting they do from the electrofishing sample. But we always like to combine hook & line data with electrofishing results to get the best picture possible of what is really going on under the water!

Kevin & Colton after some heavy fish dipping competition!

Too many small bass!

Sometimes a starving fish's mouth isn't as big as its stomach thinks!

Warmouth, Redear Sunfish and Bluegill