Muskie Stocked in Parksville Lake

[rsimms]

TWRA is hoping in a few years you might be able to catch one of these out of Parksville Lake in Polk County.


They released 600 13-inch musky there in hopes Parksville might become a musky destination like the Collins River or Melton Hill. Here are the details: http://bit.ly/2AOclzh

 

[RUGER]

Pretty cool, I would like to catch one of those.
Guess the closest I have come is a Chain Pickerel. :rotf:

 

[WTM]

cool, maybe they will do well there. if i remember a couple of state record species have been caught in that lake in the last few years.

 

[CATCHDAWG]

That article mentioned stocking Walleye in Parksville, when did this happen? I've caught them in the river below the dam but didn't know they were in the lake.

 

[rsimms]

That article mentioned stocking Walleye in Parksville, when did this happen? I've caught them in the river below the dam but didn't know they were in the lake.

I'm not positive... from what I've seen mentioned by others on Facebook, maybe a year or two ago? But TWRA has been very quiet about their stocking efforts on Parksville in recent years. To my knowledge the release about musky was the first time they've officially shared public info about the stocking they've been doing there. I don't think there's any kind of conspiracy or anything. I just think that sometimes (or many times) TWRA isn't very good and PR and marketing.

 

[oldmanelrod]

Be interesting to see if they would ever stock Chillhowee or Fontana on the little T.

 

[Doskil]

NC is stocking muskies into Cheoah Lake just upstream of Chillhowee so some might have swam through the dam into TN.

Georgia used to have some giant muskie upstream of Parksville in Blue Ridge Lake. So I would think they should do well.

 

[TNReb]

TWRA stocked musky in Garrett Lake a few years back. I don't think they've done very well though.