BARRIE BASSMASTERS usually does two or three conservation projects each year with the largest to date being in 1997 when the club installed about 20 tons of limestone in Willow Creek upstream of the old Hwy 11 bridge to serve as a spawning area for the walleyes from Little Lake. Since that time we have done an annual cleanup at Little Lake with the great assistance of Cedar Park campground who provide the pontoon boats for our use. For the last seven years or so we have had an ongoing habitat improvment project on Lake Simcoe in co-operation with the Barrie Junior Bassmasters with funding from the Ministry of Natural Resources to place additional structure in Kempenfelt Bay in Barrie to provide cover for juvinile bass and other fish.

March 25, 2007:  Our first project this year is our ongoing habitat improvement project on Kempenfelt Bay. This year we elected to place the trees thru the ice late in the season rather then use boats. We collected about 300 Christmas trees after the holidays and stored them at various locations. We then moved them to Johnson Street beach and from there to the location on the ice. Seven large holes were cut in the ice with chain saws and the trees were dropped to the botton using concrete blocks for weight. About 20 of our club members helped with this project as well as several Junior Bassmasters.   SEE PHOTOS