Upper Barbee Lakes

 (Banning, Irish, Sawmill, Sechrist, Little Barbee)

 

Lakes Data

 

Acres:

            Banning – 5

            Irish – 143

            Sawmill – 27

            Sechrist – 99

            Little Barbee – 69

 

Thermocline (summer):

            Irish – 18 to 24 feet

            Sawmill – 12 to 16 feet

            Little Barbee – 14 to 18 feet

            Sechrist – 16 to 22 feet

 

Fish Population:

Bluegill, perch, black crappie, redear, largemouth bass, pumpkinseed, longear, warmouth, bullheads, northern pike, white bass, rock bass, smallmouth bass, white crappie, channel catfish, suckers, gar, carp, shiners, brook silversides, bowfin, grass pickerel, logperch, gizzard shad and hybrid sunfish.

 

Aquatic Vegetation:

Milfoil, chara (most common), coontail, curlyleaf pondweed, cattail and waterl lily are also present.  Spatteredock is primarily restricted to a few isolated patches and in the channel between Irish and Sawmill lakes.

 

Bottom Types:

            Marl, sand, muck.

 

Best Fishing:

            Bluegill, perch, crappie and largemouth bass.