Guist Creek Lake Explained

Guist Creek Lake
Pushpin Map:	Kentucky
Coords:	38.2072°N -85.1414°W
Depth:	150NaN0
Max-Depth:	470NaN0
Elevation:	232m (761feet)

Guist Creek Lake is a 3171NaN1 reservoir about five miles (8 km) east of Shelbyville, Kentucky. It was created in 1961 by impounding Guist Creek.^[1] The lake has 27miles of shoreline and is stocked annually with 7,900 channel catfish per year. Its average depth is 15feet, with the main channel averaging around 20feet in most of the lake. Its maximum depth is 470NaN0. Guist Creek Lake is in the Salt River drainage basin.

Record fish

Two Kentucky state record fish were taken from Guist Creek Lake:^[2]

• Bullhead catfish, 5 lb 3oz, caught by Harry Case on October 18, 1992
• White catfish, 1 lb 9oz, caught by Charles Crain on May 3, 2004

Creel limits

• Channel catfish - must be over 12 inches (.3 m)

All other species follow ky state regulations

See also

• Geography of Louisville, Kentucky

External links

• 2006 Kentucky fishing forecast

Notes and References

1. Book: Kleber, John E. . Associate editors: Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter . The Kentucky Encyclopedia . 1992 . The University Press of Kentucky . . 0-8131-1772-0 . Lakes.
2. Web site: Kentucky State Record Fish List . Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources . 2006-04-17 . 2007-02-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070210163838/http://fw.ky.gov/recordfish.asp . 2007-02-10 .