The purpose of the Association is to preserve and protect Lake Lucerne and its surroundings, and to enhance the water quality, fishery, boating safety, and aesthetic value of Lake Lucerne as a public recreational facility for today and for future generations.
This content has been archived. It may no longer be relevant
Jim Zach MD Chair, Fish Habitat Committee November 29, 2019
The LLAA Board approved moving forward with the proposal developed by the Fish Habitat Committee for creating multiple fish sticks along the shore of Lake Lucerne at our September 21 meeting. This project utilizes a grant provided by the Town of Lincoln and the Forest County Potawatomi Community, the assistance of our local DNR Fishery Team, and the generosity of Lake Lucerne property owners.
This photo is a fish stick built a few years ago by the DNRs Fishery Biologists Team in Keyes Lake Florence County A fish stick consists of 2 4 trees cabled to the shoreline and secured to the lake bottom with anchors and steel cables
The goal is to promote our lake’s fishery by restoring an element fishery researchers are finding to be important for a healthy fishery — the woody carbon of submerged trees in the near shore environment. This is where life begins for some fish species, as well as providing food sources and habitat within the littoral zone’s cycle of life. The fish sticks will primarily be located in the shallower southern end of Lake Lucerne, but some can be established elsewhere along the shoreline.
If you would like more information about this project, please refer to the LLAA website (https://lakelucernewi.com), and click on “Fish Habitat Committee” tabs on the lower left side of the LLAA webpage.
At this point, I have two requests of LLAA members:
Are you are interested in hosting a fish stick along your shoreline?.
Are you are interested in volunteering to personally help with this project?
Possible volunteer labor may be to help attach and detach tree dragging cables and temporarily attaching butt end of trees to the shore. The final cabling and anchoring of trees to create a fish stick would be done by the DNR’s Fishery Team.
If you are interested in one or both options, please let me know soon. Fishery Biologist Greg Matzke will be starting the design phase of this project soon. We will then need to submit a permit to the DNR. If the weather and lake ice conditions cooperate, we could begin placing trees later this winter. What doesn’t get done this winter can be continued next winter.
