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STATE: A ��nn��nnOF <br /> DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES <br /> Metro Regional Fisheries, 1200 Warner Rd. , St. Paul, MN 55106 <br /> PHONE NO. 296-2959 <br /> • <br /> September 30, 1985 <br /> Mr. Bruce Anderson <br /> Director Parks and Recreation <br /> 2401 Highway 10 <br /> Mounds View, MN 55112 <br /> Dear Mr. Anderson: <br /> Enclosed is a Project CORE booklet and DNR rules and regulations for <br /> establishing water surface use ordinances. In addition, you can call <br /> Del Barber, 296-3572, for assistance on public access development. <br /> ment. <br /> • <br /> Spring Lake (sometimes called Wood Lake) is a 60 acre lake with a <br /> maximum depth of 20 feet. A portion of the lake is located in Mounds <br /> View andP art in Spring rin Lake Park; thus, it is located in both Ramsey <br /> and Anoka Counties. Because the lake is fairly shallow it has suffered <br /> winterkills, whereby many to most of the lake's fish population is <br /> killed, in three of the last seven winters. <br /> At the present time, we manage Spring Lake as a rearing pond,111/1 and but it <br /> has great potential to be managed for fishing if a boat access were <br /> developed and an aeration system were operated to prevent winterkill. <br /> • Our present management, as a rearing area, involves: stocking the lake <br /> with walleye fry in the spring following a winterkill; walleye fry <br /> stocked in the spring grow to 4-8 inch long fingerlings over summer; we <br /> • then net out as many walleye fingerlings as possible in the fall; <br /> walleye fingerlings removed are then stocked in metro lakes which do <br /> not winterkill. We do not need a designated public boat launch to <br /> manage the lake as a walleye rearing area since the main purpose of <br /> our stocking is to produce fish for stocking other waters and not to <br /> produce fishing in Spring Lake. <br /> If we were to manage Spring Lake to produce fishing, two requirements <br /> must be met and a third action is suggested as follows: <br /> 1. A public boat launch would have to be developed. The access <br /> must include a launching ramp and a parking area that would <br /> provide parking for 3-6 vehicles with trailers. You could <br /> call Del Barber for possible assistance in developing the <br /> • <br /> boat access. <br /> • <br /> • AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />