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O'LEARY'S LAKE. While located below the [[ZEBULON PIKE LOCK AND | O'LEARY'S LAKE. While located below the [[ZEBULON PIKE LOCK AND DAM]] in Wisconsin, O'Leary's has been a popular fishing site for decades. Fed by natural underwater springs and water from the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]], O'Leary's was a place fishermen could catch their limit of bluegills, bullheads, stripers, and even an occasional northern pike or walleye. The fish came into and left the lake through a channel that gradually filled in with gravel and debris. | ||
By 1960 the lake had become stagnate and unfit for swimming. With the channel blocked and winter freezes which suffocated the fish, the site became a health hazard. In late April, 1960 Leo McLaughlin and co-workers from the [[DUBUQUE PACKING COMPANY]] attacked the problem with shovels and began digging a channel across the forty-foot strip of sand. Their work was halted by the lockmaster who reminded them they needed permission of the commanding officer of the U. S. Army Corps of engineers at Rock Island. McLaughlin and his companions sent a letter to the commanding officer and to the Wisconsin Conservation Commission. | By 1960 the lake had become stagnate and unfit for swimming. With the channel blocked and winter freezes which suffocated the fish, the site became a health hazard. In late April, 1960 Leo McLaughlin and co-workers from the [[DUBUQUE PACKING COMPANY]] attacked the problem with shovels and began digging a channel across the forty-foot strip of sand. Their work was halted by the lockmaster who reminded them they needed permission of the commanding officer of the U. S. Army Corps of engineers at Rock Island. McLaughlin and his companions sent a letter to the commanding officer and to the Wisconsin Conservation Commission. | ||
Revision as of 20:27, 5 May 2015
O'LEARY'S LAKE. While located below the ZEBULON PIKE LOCK AND DAM in Wisconsin, O'Leary's has been a popular fishing site for decades. Fed by natural underwater springs and water from the MISSISSIPPI RIVER, O'Leary's was a place fishermen could catch their limit of bluegills, bullheads, stripers, and even an occasional northern pike or walleye. The fish came into and left the lake through a channel that gradually filled in with gravel and debris.
By 1960 the lake had become stagnate and unfit for swimming. With the channel blocked and winter freezes which suffocated the fish, the site became a health hazard. In late April, 1960 Leo McLaughlin and co-workers from the DUBUQUE PACKING COMPANY attacked the problem with shovels and began digging a channel across the forty-foot strip of sand. Their work was halted by the lockmaster who reminded them they needed permission of the commanding officer of the U. S. Army Corps of engineers at Rock Island. McLaughlin and his companions sent a letter to the commanding officer and to the Wisconsin Conservation Commission.
Since that time, the channel from the river has always remained opened. The only obstacle to fish movement has been low water levels during the summer.
--- Source:
Lagerstrom, Hal. "Fishing Hole 'Created.' Telegraph Herald, May 1, 1960, p. 15.