Pine Lake, Laporte

[crappiehunter]

I've heard through the grapevine that the walleye's put in Pine were raised in a Indiana Prison. Here's some details about that program. Hope it's an annual event!!!

Go FishIN in the City
 
DNR launches new urban fishing program

Go FishIN in the City is Indiana DNR’s new urban fishing program. This program provides great shore fishing opportunities for Hoosiers that live in heavily populated urban areas. With the help of local partners, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources will intensively stock catchable size channel catfish and rainbow trout throughout the year in small city lakes. The selected lakes are located in local city parks that are family friendly and well maintained.

Anglers age 18 and older need a fishing license. Anglers age 17 and younger do not need a fishing license. Trout anglers must purchase a trout stamp in addition to a fishing license

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In summer 2013, about 5,000 catfish will earn release from federal prison in Terre Haute.

That’s right, catfish.

In a partnership between the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, inmates at Terre Haute’s Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) will raise channel catfish for DNR’s new urban fishing program and walleyes for selected northern Indiana lakes.

The cooperative project serves two purposes—increasing fishing opportunities for Indiana anglers and providing education and long-term training for inmates.

Under the program, the fish will be hatched at DNR facilities and then moved to the prison, where they will be grown to stocking size and then released into Indiana waters.

A ceremony to dedicate the partnership will be Thursday, Nov. 15, at 9:30 a.m. EST at the FCC. DNR and prison officials will be on hand for a ribbon cutting and to transfer the 5,000 catfish to the prison. Twelve lakes in Indiana’s urban areas will be stocked with these fish in summer 2013.

In addition to fish, DNR will provide technical assistance and all fish feed. The Bureau of Prisons will provide all labor and infrastructure. The Terre Haute prison dedicated an indoor fish-growing and aquaponics facility in fall 2011 as part of a larger initiative to teach inmates farm science skills.

The first walleye stocking from the prison program will take place in fall 2013.

The DNR and BOP have drafted a two-year implementation plan, with expectations that the partnership will be long-term.

The release of the 5,000 catfish will play a key role in supporting one of DNR’s newest initiatives, the urban fishing program, known as Go FishIN in the City. The goal of the program is to make fishing more available to residents in Indiana cities.

[crappiehunter]

More news about Pine Lake Eyes...

For immediate release: Oct. 17, 2013
More than 4,000 walleyes released at Pine Lake,  LaPorte


Fishing at LaPorte’s Pine Lake received a boost this month as the DNR stocked 4,018 walleye advanced fingerlings there.

The walleyes were reared by inmates at Terre Haute’s Federal Correctional Complex as part of a partnership between the DNR and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The same facility grows catfish for the Go fishing in the City program, a program to enhance fishing opportunities in Indiana’s urban areas.

The walleyes were stocked Oct. 8. They averaged 7.5 inches and are expected to reach legal size for fishermen to keep (14 inches) in two or three years.
 
Pine Lake is a 564-acre natural lake in the town of LaPorte. It is connected by a channel to 125-acre Stone Lake, which has a public access boat ramp.
Pine Lake was stocked with walleye fry in 1992 and spring fingerling walleyes in 1993 and 1994. Additional walleye stockings were conducted in 2001 and 2002 with advanced fingerlings.

During a largemouth bass evaluation by DNR biologists last year, two walleyes around 27 inches were collected near the channel that connects Pine Lake to Stone Lake and are believed to have come from the 2002 stocking. Biologists believe the current stocking of walleyes could produce fish that large also.
Fisheries biologists will evaluate the success of the walleye stocking as well as any impact to the other fish populations.
                                                                       
 -30-Media contact: Tom Bacula, DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife, (574) 896-3673.

[High Flags]

GREAT NEWS!!!    The larger stocking size should help the survival rate.   I guess crappiehunter's new handle will be.....Walleyehunter.   

[creek21]

Heck ya great news I can't wait