LAKE SANGCHRIS STATUS REPORT SUMMARY
LARGEMOUTH BASS: LAKE SANGCHRIS - This 2,234 acre lake continues to be one of the best bass lakes in the state. We only collected 55 bass per hour of electrofishing during the Fall 2003 sample. For the past eight years the average number collected approaches 65 bass per hour, so we were down slightly this year. Sampling errors caused by weather, power plant operation or any number of things may effect the number of fish collected on any given day. Twenty percent (20%) of the bass collected were over 15" and 7 % of the bass were over 18".
A creel survey (angler interview survey) conducted in 1998 and
2000 was recently tabulated. From that survey we see that 126,920
bass were caught in 1998 and only 2607 (2%) were harvested (taken
home). In 2000, a drought year, those numbers were down significantly.
Only 69,096 bass were caught. Of that, 2294 were harvested. In 1998
59 bass per acre of water were caught and only 1 taken home which
averaged 3.2 pounds.
