Brantley Lake
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Brantley Lake is located within Brantley Lake State Park
(32.5451149°N 104.3744030°W) approximately 12 miles (19.3 km) north of Carlsbad, New Mexico off US 285. It is impounded by Brantley Dam.
The reservoir is part of the Brantley Project. The project's main purpose was to replace McMillan Dam, which was declared unsafe. Additional benefits include irrigation, flood control, fish and wildlife enhancement, and recreation.
Brantley Lake has a 335054 acre.ft capacity assigned to flood control functions.
Brantley Lake State Park is located in the Chihuahuan Desert
region of southeastern New Mexico.
Anglers can catch a variety of warm water fish such as largemouth bass
, walleye
, channel catfish
, white bass
, bluegill
, and crappie
.
Brantley Lake is part of the larger Brantley Wildlife area that stretches approximately 11 miles (17.7 km) North-South in south eastern New Mexico.
Brantley Lake State Park
Brantley Lake State Park is a state park of New Mexico, USA, located approximately north of Carlsbad. The park takes its name from Brantley Lake, a man-made reservoir created when Brantley Dam was built across the Pecos River in the 1980s. The lake is the southernmost lake in New Mexico, and it...
(32.5451149°N 104.3744030°W) approximately 12 miles (19.3 km) north of Carlsbad, New Mexico off US 285. It is impounded by Brantley Dam.
The reservoir is part of the Brantley Project. The project's main purpose was to replace McMillan Dam, which was declared unsafe. Additional benefits include irrigation, flood control, fish and wildlife enhancement, and recreation.
Brantley Lake has a 335054 acre.ft capacity assigned to flood control functions.
Brantley Lake State Park is located in the Chihuahuan Desert
Chihuahuan Desert
The Chihuahuan Desert is a desert, and an ecoregion designation, that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border in the central and northern portions of the Mexican Plateau, bordered on the west by the extensive Sierra Madre Occidental range, and overlaying northern portions of the east range, the Sierra...
region of southeastern New Mexico.
Anglers can catch a variety of warm water fish such as largemouth bass
Largemouth bass
The largemouth bass is a species of black bass in the sunfish family native to North America . It is also known as widemouth bass, bigmouth, black bass, bucketmouth, Potter's fish, Florida bass, Florida largemouth, green bass, green trout, linesides, Oswego bass, southern largemouth...
, walleye
Walleye
Walleye is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European pikeperch...
, channel catfish
Channel catfish
Channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, is North America's most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a "channel cat". In the United States they are the most fished catfish species with approximately 8...
, white bass
White bass
The white bass or sand bass The white bass or sand bass The white bass or sand bass (MoroneIt is the state fish of Oklahoma.- Range :White bass are distributed widely across the United States, particularly in the midwest. They are very abundant in Pennsylvania and the area around Lake Erie...
, bluegill
Bluegill
The Bluegill is a species of freshwater fish sometimes referred to as bream, brim, or copper nose. It is a member of the sunfish family Centrarchidae of the order Perciformes.-Range and distribution:...
, and crappie
Crappie
Crappie is a genus of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of order Perciformes. The type species is P. annularis, the white crappie...
.
Brantley Lake is part of the larger Brantley Wildlife area that stretches approximately 11 miles (17.7 km) North-South in south eastern New Mexico.