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The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) has stocked the lake with largemouth bass, and starting in 2006 has also installed artificial spawning beds in the lake's Grassy Bay (the lakebed's eroded clay and soft muck surfaces are not suited to bass spawning). [3] As of 2008, the record largemouth caught in the lake weighed 10.6 pounds.
In a typical example of spawning beds in action, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources has installed approximately 50 largemouth bass spawning beds in Crab Orchard Lake in southern Illinois. [2] In some cases, especially in salt water, an artificial structure may significantly alter underwater morphology and create an artificial reef.
Little Grassy Lake is managed for warmwater fishing, with largemouth bass, bluegill, channel catfish, and crappie stocked and caught. [5] There is a power limit on the lake, with motors restricted to 10 h.p. or less. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permit is required for use of the lake. A campground and marina operates during fishing season ...
The upper jaw of a largemouth bass extends beyond the rear margin of the orbit. [16] The largemouth bass is the largest of the black basses, reaching a maximum recorded overall length of 29.5 in (75 cm) [17] and a maximum unofficial weight of 25 lb 1 oz (11.4 kg). [17] Sexual dimorphism is found, with the female larger than the male.
Lake Carroll has a wide range of Illinois species: sunfish (bluegill, redear, pumpkinseed), yellow perch, black and white crappie, walleye, bass (smallmouth, largemouth, & white), muskie, northern pike, catfish (channel and flathead), and carp. Lake Carroll maintains its own fish hatchery for walleyes and restocks the lake each fall.
In 1893, 250 bass fingerlings were introduced into the Gibbon River (it is unknown as to whether these were large or smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)) and in the early 1900s, 500 fingerling Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) were introduced into Goose Lake and Feather Lake in the Lower Geyser Basin. Neither introduction established a ...
Rock bass are sexually mature at about 2 to 3 years of age. Rock bass are polygynandrous, in which both females and males have multiple mates during the breeding season. Spawning occurs from April to early June in warm waters ranging 12–15 °C (54–59 °F), with females laying from 2,000 to 11,000 eggs. [7]
Shoal bass spawn in coarse gravel at the heads of creek pools in April and May, to early June. They prefer a spawning temperature of 64 to 79 °F (18 to 26 °C). [4] Like the largemouth, the male prepares the nest and guards the eggs and fry. Shoal bass feed mainly on aquatic insects on the surface. They also feed on larval insects, crayfish ...