ive been fishing it for more than 17 years and have never gotten in trouble for fishing there , been checked by game warden several times and had a county sheriff question me while fishing there , years ago several tickets were written for trespassing and all were thrown out of court , not sure of the whole story on the lake but was told that the lake belongs to COE only the land around it is private, fishing there has been down for several years now and mostly a dink hole anymore! 8" or smaller will be the average