The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will hold a public meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 27 in the Mayflower High School Cafeteria to update landowners and any interested anglers about the progress of the Lake Conway renovation project.
Lake Conway has nearly reached the halfway point of its scheduled five-year renovation project that includes replacement of the lake’s outdated dam and water-control structure. In addition to critical enhancements to infrastructure, AGFC staff are working to improve valuable aquatic habitat on the aging lake. Gravel beds have been added throughout the lake to improve spawning habitat, and various forms of complex artificial cover have been placed in key areas of the lakebed during the drawdown.
“Mother Nature kicked into high gear over the last two years with loads of vegetation and brush growing in the lakebed,” Nick Feltz, AGFC fisheries supervisor in central Arkansas, said. “All of that brush will create more complex cover than the fields of stumps currently along the lakebed that have lost their branches. When the lake refills, the softer vegetation will decompose quickly, adding nutrients to the water and boosting the food chain to increase the growth of predatory fish like bass and crappie.”…