Article on Panther Hollow Lake restoration/clean up

I know where that lake is. I actually helped clean up the shore line with the Boy Scouts when I was a young boy. That was in the early 80's and it was dirty back then. I do remember carp in there but not much more than that about it. It is less than 15 minutes from my house. I don't think they could ever keep it clean with all the slobs in the city.

Caught cats (bullhead) in there as a kid (70's), but it was far from "clean". The current effort has more to do with getting stormwater out of the sewers (the entire lake outfall goes to ALCOSAN). It worked at Nine Mile Run.
If you are DYING to scratch your itch, the ponds in Highland Park have about 6 bass in them, along with bullhead and carp.

I went to school at CMU, so that pond was my backyard and my fly rod testing ground. I spend many hours down there just casting.

There are some fish. In the times that I was looking for fish, I caught bass up to 12" or so, crappie to 8", and some shad looking things up to about 10". It was enough to scratch an itch. There are also carp in there. I don't know how many, but some are considerable in size. Walk across the bridge near Phipps on a sunny day and look down. You'll count a dozen that will all be 30" plus. I never targetted them though as I always had a fly rod.

Thanks
Rck

Wild John, you can't fish for the carp in Highland Park.

Mike