Stocking Crappie
Lake Hamilton Habitat Restoration Project

Get Hooked on Helping Lake Hamilton!

These are pictures of us stocking fingerling crappie in Lake Hamilton.

Transported all the way from the Charlie Craig State Fish Hatchery in Northwest Arkansas,
we helped the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission stock 25,000 young-of-year (YOY) crappie in October, 2011. Then in November 2011 due to high production this year, we helped stock an additional 50,000 fingerling crappie.

These baby crappie were a mix of sizes from one to four inches.

The small fish are easily shocked and had to be tempered to the lake's water temperature

Using three one-hundred gallon aerated tanks, we stock these fish over our bamboo habitats
supported by the Sport Fish Restoration (SRF) Fund in about twenty spots from the White Oak Basin to Bull Bayou

We are working hard for our lake, for you and for future generations to fish Lake Hamilton.
 

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