Here you go My friend is 6'8". I remember a post from last year of a fish weighing 13-14# out there. The lake has received Sharelunker fry in the past.

Ahhhh yeaaaaa

Congrats Kevin

Yes, the man with the other large fish photo published late last spring or early summer was on the bank one day while I was fishing and I spoke to him at length. He caught it on what he called "crappie line" and spinning tackle. It was a very nice fish, likely a DD, but it didn't have the look of a 14 or 15 pounder.

This thread's theme, like most, gets repeated a lot. I actually had a chance to talk with one of the Biologists who is familiar with Marine Creek. He had read my results and thoughts regarding it and contacted me on a private post, filled me in on the lake's stocking history.

Actually, and this is odd, that after the lake was stocked with non-native bass with better genetics, they went back out after several years and determined that the fingerlings had actually grown more than those that were placed in other healthier lakes at the same time.

The gist, though, of what he said is Marine Creek, as of now, can't support a healthy population of forage . . . shad for example. And, shad in a healthy lake can easily propagate themselves and don't need to be stocked.

In this way, he said Marine Creek is like a stock tank, just a really big one. Stock tanks don't support shad either. There, what you see are LMBs (and often tons of smaller ones that need to be culled), catfish and blue gills. Then, the LMBs have others things to eat like craws, etc.

So, this is what we have: a small lake with the profile of a stock tank. That it is larger makes it harder to find the few large ones in there but we catch a fair share of 1.5 pounders.

When I have been in my canoe or kayak on Marine, I have rarely seen anything that looks like a minnow of any sort, rarely have I ever seen the same working along the bank in the shallows. What I do get, especially when I bank fish, are blue gill nibbles on my drop shots while I am looking for bass.

One last thought: Marine Creek was never intended to be a laboratory to create a world record bass. The Biologist told me how that got started, that as I recall it was the unfortunate choice of wording and some confusion by some guy in management, not out in the field, then repeated endlessly.

I agree with one idea posted above: It is a nice lake if it is convenient to you just to go out and catch a few small bass. The numbers will rarely be large, the size either. But, there still some large ones in there and a few are caught most years.

Brad