Sports

In Progress: Fishing Pier Installed at Woodbury's Colby Lake

People will be able to access the 84-foot pier from Edgewater Park.

Woodbury resident James Wood, of Wood Multimedia Production, was at Colby Lake on Tuesday morning taking photos of the new fishing pier being installed.

“Looks pretty good,” he said.

MINNCOR, a state Department of Corrections industry program, is putting in the pier, which will be similar to the one at Powers Lake.

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The $30,000 project is part of the DNR’s Fishing in the Neighborhood program.

“We want to create fishing opportunities closer to home,” Jim Levitt, Department of Natural Resources fisheries specialist, told Patch last week.

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The pier was expected to be finished by Wednesday, Sept. 11.

Meanwhile, the DNR is also working at Colby Lake to reduce phosphorus, which creates algae.

Over the past two years the DNR has stocked the lake with about 4,000 catfish, which should help reduce the population of bullhead, a fish that stirs up sediment on the lake bottom, Levitt said.

The local watershed district has also installed rain gardens at several homes near the lake in an attempt to reduce phosphorus runoff.

Panfish, such as bluegill, will be stocked next spring, Levitt said.

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