12-24-2011, 06:51 PM
I never ice-fished Holmes Creek during the glory days, but I spent many summers fishing there almost daily because I lived close by. On the north end of the reservoir their used to be a large tree that had fallen into the water. During the bluegill spawn you could walk out onto the tree and pull out tons of fat, hand sized bluegills. Like PACKFAN has stated, as soon as they made it a community pond and started stocking it with bows and catfish, the bass, bluegill, and crappie populations took a huge hit. The reason is simple, a small lake can only hold so many fish. When thousands of trout are dumped into that lake they eat the other fish out of house and home and then end of starving themseleves. Ice fishing there in the past couple years I've mainly caught skinny bows and and occasional bluegill, crappie, or white bass. I really wish they would stop stocking it with trout, but now that it's become so well known that's not likely to happen. Probably the only way I'll get the "good days" of catching monster bass and bluegill would be to make my own private pond.