Jordan Riley, a senior business administration major from Tupelo, reels one in recently at Chadwick Lake.

For a small annual fee, any Mississippi State student or employee with the urge to wet a hook can try their luck in the university's Chadwick Lake.

Now beginning its second year of operation, the Office of Recreational Sports-run lake offers faculty, staff, and student anglers the opportunity to hook bass, sunfish, or catfish.

Once caught, however, all fish must be released unharmed back into the lake.

Located on the north side of campus adjacent to the Joe Frank Sanderson Center, the 12-acre lake was drained and its shoreline cleaned nearly three years ago. University personnel then stocked it with largemouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, grass carp, and channel catfish.

The restoration and management efforts must be working-the unofficial record catch, to date, is a 10-pound bass.

Future plans for the facility include a possible fishing course for academic credit and a walking trail around the lake.