Lakeview

This was in the Memphis papr today.
once they close it do you really think they'll open it back up???

I doubt it!!!:mad:



Rumors have spread rapidly during the past few weeks that Lakeview, a.k.a. Horn Lake, is about to be closed to the public.

That's true.

It will.

But only for a while.

According to officials from the Lakeview Boat Dock, the land adjacent to the popular fishery just off Highway 61 in Walls, Miss., has been purchased by private investors, and the lake will be closed during November, December and January.

It will reopen to the public for fishing in February.

The lake is located less than a half-hour from downtown Memphis and is a popular destination for many Memphis-area anglers.

The fishery has solid populations of bass, bluegill, crappie and catfish, and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks added 75,000 hybrid striped bass fingerlings earlier this year.

Numerous phone calls placed to the MDWFP were not returned.

Will Never Be Public Again

DARN DUCK HUNTERS!!!! They gonna shut it down for the whole season. Wonder where all the wonderful Lakeview crowd will go now? Butla gonna get covered up

Maybe They Will Head For The Cutoff And Not Bulta

dang man that sucks i have been fishing there since i was a little kid. i still have a baitcaster reel on the bottom that my dad threw in when he got mad at me trying to teach me how to use it, it was a really bad backlash. oh well just shows that these idiots that have all the money can screw us regular joes.

It just makes you wonder .... that some fat cat land baron greased the palm of some MISSISSIPPI wild life officials to stock the lake with hyrbids right before they closed it to the public.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK !

makes you wonder what else he did too :0

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Originally Posted by crappiebandit

makes you wonder what else he did too :0

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The duck hunting there isn't good. Hope they are happy. Crappie fishing ain't much better. Whoever bought it they can have it.

I wonder what size the hybrid bass were when they were stocked? I wish there were more places in North Mississippi to target them.

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Originally Posted by reb66jr

The duck hunting there isn't good. Hope they are happy. Crappie fishing ain't much better. Whoever bought it they can have it.

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With no boat traffic on the lake, those ducks gonna raft up big time. Just watch. As far as Crappie, I've had some of my best day's there. Just ask Mr. Jim, he has put some numbers in the boat there as well. It just seems that in the last few year's it's been over run. Same went for North Lake.

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Originally Posted by jdrobin3

I wonder what size the hybrid bass were when they were stocked? I wish there were more places in North Mississippi to target them.

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They stocked fingerlings. There used to be lots of them in Sardis, but since they don't reproduce, they all were caught or went down river.

Ya'll just lucky I ain't rich. Else I'd buy all of the COEs and force ya'll to fish McKeller Lake all the time.

Wannabe...

Some good fish in there the creel and limit might help, prob. is the GWs cant be there 7/24 to catch the dudes coming out with short fish and over the limit. Got rumers going around that some of that crowd has moved to butla. Keeping everything they catch. They are in for a big surprise if i see em.

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Originally Posted by jimfish

Some good fish in there the creel and limit might help, prob. is the GWs cant be there 7/24 to catch the dudes coming out with short fish and over the limit. Got rumers going around that some of that crowd has moved to butla. Keeping everything they catch. They are in for a big surprise if i see em.

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Get'em Mr Jim:cool:

they will be in for when ol green jeans catches them too. i watch some people catching em up at the very upper end of sardis when is was way low i was out riding 4 wheelers and ranger rick was in the best hiding spot in the world he stopped me and the guys infront of me had all fish under the creel and he busted there balls real bad.

It's kinda sad. I grew up fishing Flower Lake(I will never forget them blue holes), then North Lake and now Lakeview. Same type situation for all I mentioned. Got to admit that lately Lakeview was like giving a dog a bone. Kinda wonder where the dogs gonna move now. If you have fished Lakeview the past few years you know what I mean. If I were yall I would put spike strips up around Butla(Of course I'll get a free pass since it's my idea):D.

Its a sad situation when private individuals can control the oxbows etc. The water ought to be public.

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Originally Posted by G3 Fisherman

Its a sad situation when private individuals can control the oxbows etc. The water ought to be public.

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The water is public! Access is the problem. Maybe we should all go in on a float plane.:rolleyes:

I, personally, have had 2 excellent back-to-back years on Lakeview catching LARGE crappie. For those that say that the crappie fishing on Lakeview is poor leads me to believe that they haven't quite figured out how/when/where to find them on that lake. It's true that you won't catch the really large crappie that can be found on Butla, but I don't have to catch 3lb crappie to have a wonderful experience either.

If they lock me out of that lake, then I feel sorry for all my fellow perch-jerkers on Arkabutla... Move over boys...There's a new kid in town...And he's HUNGRY!!!!

:)