Congratz to SNOWJN on the FTF for this Cache!
What a lake! Have been past here many times but never stopped
in, Glad I did! Bring your rod on this cache and you won't be
sorry. I caught a few Bass, but soon turned my attention to the
Cats, Wow! There are some huge fish in here. Anyway, a very nice
place to visit, bring your trash bag for a little CITO, there are
places here and there that would benefit from your help. Enjoy!
Lake Brittle: Fauquier County Parks and Recreation Department
and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries have
entered into a contract to make FCPRD the concessionaire at this
beautiful facility. Now that the concession stand is open, the
public is able to rent boats and purchase fishing supplies and
snacks. The public can hike, picnic, or fish. The lake is open to
the public 7 days a week, 24 hours per day.
A little history:
Lake Brittle is a 77 acre impoundment and was constructed in
1953 as a public fishing lake. It is one of the oldest VGDIF
Department-owned lakes and among the first to be built in Virginia
with Dingell-Johnson funds. Dingell-Johnson funds are funds
provided by a federal excise tax on fishing tackle. Lake Brittle is
located just east of Warrenton and only thirty miles from the
Beltway. It offers a peaceful setting, good fishing, picnicing for
the family, and abundant nature for the wildlife enthusiast. The
lake's average depth is about seven feet and it has a maximum depth
of 25 feet near the spillway tower. Lake Brittle supports a warm
water fish community including largemouth bass, bluegill, redear
sunfish, black crappie and channel catfish. The lake has been
stocked annually with walleye since 1979. Flathead catfish were
stocked in 1990 and 1994 to control the abundant sunfish population
and undesirable species such as brown bullhead and gizzard shad,
which managed to proliferate to produce large populations. The
management objective of Lake Brittle is to increase panfish
population structure and average weight while maintaining the
largemouth bass fishery. The balance of the fishery is based on the
predation of catfish, largemouth bass and walleye upon the stunted
sunfish and gizzard shad populations. It will be necessary to
maintain high predator numbers to sufficiently control
overpopulation of the lake with stunted, slow growing sunfish.
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