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Cheat Lake
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Date 14-May-08
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Conditions : CHEAT LAKE – High water conditions do not affect Cheat Lake as drastically as Tygart Lake or the Monongahela River since the lake is now at the summer recreation level and can only fluctuate 2-feet until November. Yellow perch are abundant in the upper lake around the I-64 bridge. Channel catfish can be caught throughout the lake but are particularly numerous upstream of Mt. Chateau. Now is the time to fish for big bass. Cheat Lake has been one of the top lakes for bass fishing tournament success for the past five years. The embayments at the Cheat Lake Park will warm up faster than the main lake. This is a good area for bank anglers to catch sunfish and largemouth bass. Keep track of the lake elevation and predicted daily changes in elevation on the Cheat Lake website at www.cheatlaketoday.com. The winter ramp at the Cheat Lake Park is closed for the summer.
Reported by : West Virginia D.N.R
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CHEAT LAKE
Cheat Lake, a 1,730-acre lake in Monongalia County, currently contains a good population of fat, eating-sized walleyes, fish that are a result of stockings made a few years ago.

A lake with a history of acid mine drainage contamination, game fish populations have been on the rebound in Cheat Lake for a number of years. First to be noticed was the largemouth bass fishery. The lake is now one of the better largemouth lakes in the state, according to results of bass tournaments held there. Walleyes may soon be stealing some of the limelight.

"Cheat Lake has a lot of walleyes in the 16- to 18-inch range," biologist Hederick reported.

The DNR hopes to establish a self-supporting walleye population in the Cheat. Cheat Lake is near Interstate 68, six miles northeast of Morgantown.
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