 The lake offers opportunities for boating, camping, fishing, and swimming.Two campgrounds, Blue Heron and Crab Orchard, operate on the northern side of the lake.The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) has stocked the lake with largemouth bass, and starting in 2006 has also installed artificial spawning beds in the lake's "Grassy Bay" (the lakebed's eroded clay and soft muck surfaces are not suited to bass spawning).