If the IDNR, raises so many muskie fry, and stocks the overflow into shelbyville, why not spread the amount of fry into the state and county lakes, that have not been stock for years, ie - Mill Creek, Stephen Forbes, Pana, Paradice, Site m, Otter. What of the possibility to stock them into private ponds, or Borrow pits that you see, along Illinois Highways, that are new, when a off-ramp has been built. If the state owns them, why not use them, for test stocking, ie off ramp just north of Mattoon. If each state lake had their own stocking ponds, that would increase employment , which this state is in direr need of......

kev