Large-Scale habitat project on Bull Shoals Lake

The large-scale habitat project on Bull Shoals Lake has been completed. Over the past two weeks (seven actual working days), Fisheries Division personnel (40 total) worked to replenish existing habitat sites on the lower end (Oakland to Dam) of Bull Shoals Lake. The original goal of this project was to replenish 61 sites in Howard, Big and Little Sister Creeks (marked in green on the map below). Due to the hard work of the staff, we were able to replenish those 61 sites and an additional 34 sites for a total of 95 sites. The additional sites are marked in white (Barnes Bay and Dry Run Creek), purple (Noel Creek) and yellow (Jimmie Creek). We estimated over 500 trees were used during this project to replenish the 95 sites.
Replenished sites will be updated on the AGFC Mapper after the first of the year.

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Those should last being that big .:highfive Wish we could get our local fisheries people to work on our lakes .:twocents

That's a lot of trees and some good habitat!! Thanks guys for all you do!!!

Thanks.Two great crappie lakes.Thanks for all the hard work truly appreciate d.some fine hidden crappie lakes Bull and Norfork.Better get Ya some.

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Thanks.Two great crappie lakes.Thanks for all the hard work truly appreciate d.some fine hidden crappie lakes Bull and Norfork.Better get Ya some.

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Fantastic work Jeremy! Thanks a million, I wish I knew more about fishing Bull Shoals, never have fished it. I hope you guys can get around to Norfork sometime and do the same thing. Great work, thanks again.

Mac daddy,

We plan to replenish sites in Norfork on a smaller scale in 2018. In the next couple of years, we will have a similar large-scale project on Norfork. Hopefully, we can replenish over have the sites in that large-scale project.

Great news both lakes needed them badly! Thanks to the Corp ang AGF and thank you Jeremy great job. Are they n 25' of water?

Great work.

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Great news both lakes needed them badly! Thanks to the Corp ang AGF and thank you Jeremy great job. Are they n 25' of water?

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This time, we placed brush perpendicular to the shoreline. We tried to place brush from 10/15 feet on the shallow end to 30 feet on the deep end. Of course, that varied depending on location and bank angle.

Good deal, thats the smartest way they will work early and late season.Do they have the signs on trees marking them?

So had signs and some didn't. We are eventually going to move away from signs. They get stolen or the fall of the tree during high water.