What Species Of Fish Are In Our Lake?

If you are a fisherman and you are interested in knowing what we have in our lake, we actually have quite a diverse selection.  We have large and smallmouth bass, white bass, catfish, yellow perch, sunfish, and crappie; there are a few lake trout still left in the lake and we also get a few in the headwater reaches of the lake near Pool Creek and the Broad River where rainbow trout will occasionally be found.  There are also a few chain pickerel found in the lake which was probably stocked in here many years ago. There are no muskellunge here unless someone put them in without our knowledge, and if they did they probably won’t survive long enough to breed due to the water temperature and lack of good muskie habitat.

As far as fish stocking, the only fish the town stocks the lake with are largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, white bass, and threadfin shad.  Anything else that’s in the lake was either stocked long ago or naturally occurred in the Broad River before it was impounded.

Our Parks, Recreation, and Lake Department is continuously monitoring the health of the lake and looking at ways to improve the fishery in Lake Lure.  No one wants to come to a lake that is not healthy and the best way to measure the health of a lake is to look at the lake ecosystem and see how it’s thriving.

If you have questions about fishing in Lake Lure or would like to know more, please contact Dana Bradley, Parks, Recreation and Lake Director at (828)625-9983 x 502 E-mail: dbradley@townoflakelure.com