{"id":398,"date":"2015-04-13T14:41:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T14:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/?page_id=398"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:43:18","slug":"fishing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/park\/fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Fishing in Chapter Pond<\/h1>\n<p>Our pond is available for fishing by all chapter members and their guests.\u00a0 Be sure to fill out the sign-in log book in the mailbox by the front park gate.<\/p>\n<h2>Revised Creel Limits<\/h2>\n<p>As announced in our May, 2018 chapter newsletter, the board of directors has approved new creel limits for our chapter&#8217;s pond in accordance with the DWR (Department of Wildlife Resources) biologist&#8217;s recommendations. So, until further notice, in order to help restore a more healthy and balanced fish population in the pond, all chapter members and guests are requested to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>release all bluegill and sunfish release large mouth bass (LMB) only if less than 8&#8243; or greater than &#8220;14&#8221; in length otherwise keep (i.e. fish fry) all other sizes of LMB;<\/li>\n<li>keep (i.e. fish fry) all Crappie, White and Yellow Perch, Carp, Gizzard Shad and all catfish except channel cats;<\/li>\n<li>always record your fish catch\/keep release stats in the fish log binder stored in the chapter park mailbox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As evidenced by these two photos shown below, there are some nice-sized fish in our pond!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/john_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-350\" src=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/john_pic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"John Lange\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/john_pic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/john_pic-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/john_pic-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/john_pic.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Lange<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_348\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bass_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-348\" src=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bass_pic-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Danny Stephenson\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bass_pic-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bass_pic-210x150.jpg 210w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bass_pic-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bass_pic.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Stephenson<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h1>Fishing in Chapter Pond<\/h1>\n<p>Our pond is available for fishing by all chapter members and their guests.\u00a0 Be sure to fill out the sign-in log book in the mailbox by the front park gate.<\/p>\n<h2>Revised Creel Limits<\/h2>\n<p>As announced in our May, 2018 chapter newsletter, the board of directors has  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/park\/fishing\/\"> Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":238,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-398","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fishing - S-N IWLA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/park\/fishing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fishing - S-N IWLA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fishing in Chapter Pond Our pond is available for fishing by all chapter members and their guests.\u00a0 Be sure to fill out the sign-in log book in the mailbox by the front park gate. 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