DNR, partners awarded fish habitat grant

HOLLANDSBURG -- Fish at Cecil M. Harden Lake (Raccoon Lake) will have more habitat thanks to a $1,500 grant from the Reservoir Fisheries Habitat Partnership and King Enterprises.

The grant will pay for structures that simulate trees and aquatic vegetation with natural colors, textured surfaces and flexible limbs.

The structures are very “fishable” and will last a lifetime. DNR staff will place them around the fishing pier, near the beach, this winter.

Grant recipients were the DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife and two of its biggest partners in aquatic habitat development, the Indiana Bass Federation and Bass Unlimited.