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Grant will go towards the enhancement of fisheries habitat at Cordell Hull Lake. With 19 designated fish attractor locations already in place and a plan to add more, the grant will offer improved opportunities for anglers. The collaboration between the Friends of Cordell Hull Lake, USACE, and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) should help ensure that the new attractors are well-placed and maintained.
By targeting both vessel-accessible and land-accessible areas, we'd be making the lake more accessible to a wider range of anglers, which is fantastic for inclusivity and community engagement all the while enhancing fisheries habitat and ecology.

Currently Cordell Hull Lake has 19 fish attractors that are on a rotational schedule of maintenance and inspection with side scan. Each year USACE staff builds attractors with high school volunteers out of materials ranging from brush, rough cut cedar lumber, and pvc. With the grant, the Friends of Cordell Hull Lake and all partners are confident an additional fish attractor location can be added as well as refreshing an existing site that had trees previously placed. The type of fish attractors would be commercially manufactured pvc attractors that Cordell Hull Lake hasn't utilized before. A grant funding of $1500 would allow the Friends of Cordell Hull Lake to purchase approximately 5 "Predator Prey Trees" that will be placed via boat adjacent to a known land fishing area.

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has agreed to assist in the habitat project if awarded.
Their vital role is being the subject matter experts with fish ecology in Tennessee. When Fisheries Program Manager and local Biologist of TWRA agreed to help not only contribute in knowledge, but also planning of the selected sites for habitat renewal. It has been discussed doing electroshock surveys and creel surveys to monitor our project’s impact with the targeted fish species.
USACE has an Operational Management Plan that covers structural habitat enhancement that can be requested via email.

Largemouth bass
Smallmouth bass
Crappie
Catfish
Bluegill

A press release with the Friends of Cordell Hull Lake and USACE receiving the grant items highlighting the benefit and recognition Mossback and Friends of Reservoirs. A map of specific areas the fish attractors will be place will be released on social media. An email blast from Friends of Cordell Hull Lake to their 147 members bringing attention to the award of fish enhancing habitat and seeking volunteers to assist with the assembly and placement of the attractors.