Carrol lake

[BigCityBubba]

I realized yesterday that Carrol lake is only 15 minutes from my house. I drove by it and someone had a small bass boat on the lake. Its only 100 ac and I assume there are some restrictions but I can't find any listed online. Has anyone fished it recently? I know it was closed for a few years and had to be drained. Has the fishing recovered?

 

[RUGER]

Depending on what day you drove by, that might have been me.
Entire lake is no wake, that is the only restriction I know of.
There are limits on bream, shellcracker, bass and catfish.. OH and walleye too, but I am yet to catch or know of anyone catching one.
I think they just said they put them in there.
No length or creel limit on crappie. I am seeing fewer and fewer every time I go.
I hope everyone goes by the limit on bream, if they will it will be a good place for a long time.
I have seen zero enforcement display there. See a TWRA guy come and go from the shop next door occasionally though.
That doesn't mean they aren't watching I'm sure.

I can't speak to much of anything except the bream fishing there, but yes, it has recovered nicely.

I wouldn't waste my time going there though.

 

[chrmayo]

It's about 2 miles from my house. I've only been twice.

 

[DCA-DEER]

Probably 15 mins from my house too probably be going before to long

 

[Cardinalskyhawk]

I hope everyone goes by the limit on bream, if they will it will be a good place for a long time.

The regs for Carrol Lake say Bluegill/Redear 20 per day in combination, Lake Halford says Bluegill/Redear 10 fish. Does this mean 10 fish in combination or 10 each at Halford? I just don't get why the powers that be have to make some things harder than they should be to understand.

 

[RUGER]

The regs for Carrol Lake say Bluegill/Redear 20 per day in combination, Lake Halford says Bluegill/Redear 10 fish. Does this mean 10 fish in combination or 10 each at Halford? I just don't get why the powers that be have to make some things harder than they should be to understand.

I take it as 10 in combination at Halford.
NOTHING tdub does makes any sense, that is the only thing I am sure of.

 

[TNGunsmoke]

I take it as 10 in combination at Halford.

This is how I read it as well.

 

[TNReb]

Grew up about 15 minutes from there and have only fished it once in my life. Hope it's better than it was before they drained it.

 

[TheLBLman]

Hope it's better than it was before they drained it.

In times past, for whatever reasons, it just wasn't a very fertile pond.
Personally, I don't think it's large enough to be called a lake.
Big pond.

My take is there are just so many other larger more fertile bodies of water nearby that both locals and travelers mostly fish elsewhere.

 

[West_Tn]

The day it reopened the fishing was amazing. Since then it's pretty bad for bass anyways. Ruger I can confirm that they put walleye in there. I lost a big one and my buddy caught one the day the lake opened. Haven't really heard of anyone catching one in a while. Bet they were all caught out of there.

 

[TheLBLman]

I can confirm that they put walleye in there. I lost a big one and my buddy caught one the day the lake opened. Haven't really heard of anyone catching one in a while. Bet they were all caught out of there.

I would bet they all died.
Maybe an experiment to see how long they could live in warm stagnant shallow water?

 

[WTM]

I would bet they all died.
Maybe an experiment to see how long they could live in warm stagnant shallow water?

there is a lot of water moving in that lake. its always spilling from the bottom of the gates. it has to be spring fed. the way it spills, i can imagine some fingerlings getting sucked out to the creek.

when that levy broke back when it flooded there were a whole lot of folks catching fish out of that little spillway creek. went on for about a week.

 

[chrmayo]

It is fed by a creek on the backside by the golf course. It follows back to clear lake on clear lake road. Also comes thru another pond before it hits Carroll lake.

 

[RUGER]

The day it reopened the fishing was amazing. Since then it's pretty bad for bass anyways. Ruger I can confirm that they put walleye in there. I lost a big one and my buddy caught one the day the lake opened. Haven't really heard of anyone catching one in a while. Bet they were all caught out of there.

That's cool man. You are the first person I have ever heard of that has caught one.