20081224602 | Lake Conroe Produces New Junior State Record

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Lake Conroe Produces New Junior State Record

Written by TPW
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Kyle Nitschke of Willis caught this ShareLunker from Lake Conroe December 13. The fish weighed 13.07 pounds and was 25 inches long and 21.5 inches in girth and is a new junior state record. Photo by Larry D. Hodge, TPW Teenager Kyle Nitschke of Willis caught ShareLunker No. 456 from Lake Conroe December 13. The 13.07-pound largemouth bass should qualify as the new junior angler state record by 0.01 pound. Ironically, Nitschke was fishing in the Ignition Bass Tournament with his friend Tyler Goetzman, who caught the former record from Lake Conroe on January 13, 2008. "We had a limit by 8:40 and started culling," Nitschke said. "We caught 14 keepers. She hit a crankbait in six feet of water about 12:30." The fish was 21.5 inches in girth and 25 inches in length. Nitschke and Goetzman won the tournament with a bag of 32.85 pounds of fish. Lake Conroe has now produced 13 ShareLunkers and ranks number four in the number produced, after Lakes Fork, Rayburn and Alan Henry. For the past several years Lake Conroe has been the site of intensive management of invasive aquatic vegetation by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department using triploid grass carp and chemicals. Local anglers, homeowners and recreational users have cooperated in developing an action plan that is reestablishing native vegetation in the lake.

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