Guist Creek Lake

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Guist Creek Lake is a 317-acre artificial lake about five miles east of Shelbyville, Kentucky. It was created in 1961 by impounding Guist Creek.^[1] The lake has 27 miles of shoreline and is stocked annually with 7,900 channel catfish per year. Its average depth is 15 feet, with the main channel averaging around 20 feet in most of the lake. Its maximum depth is 47 feet. Guist Creek Lake is in the Salt River drainage basin.

1 Record fish
2 Creel limits
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Record fish

Two Kentucky state record fish were taken from Guist Creek Lake:^[2]

Bullhead catfish, 5lbs 3oz, caught by Harry Case on October 18, 1992
White catfish, 1lb 9oz, caught by Charles Crain on May 3, 2004

[edit] Creel limits

Channel catfish - must be over 12 inches
Hybrid striped bass - Must be 15 inches or over - Limit 5 per angler
Striped bass - Must be 15 inches or over - Limit 5 per angler
White bass - Must be 15 inches or over - Limit 5 per angler
Yellow bass - Must be 15 inches or over - Limit 5 per angler

[edit] References

^ (1992) "Lakes", in Kleber, John E.: The Kentucky Encyclopedia, Associate editors: Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813117720.
^ Kentucky State Record Fish List. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (2006-04-17). Retrieved on 2007-02-17.