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Eufala was on my bucket list
Posted on 4/23/22 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 4/23/22 at 6:19 pm
But since I’ve been here I doubt I’ll fish it again. 12 lbs won a boat tournament last weekend. Crazy. This lake used to be “The Lake”. How times have changed.
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Posted on 4/23/22 at 7:05 pm to lsuson
I worked in Eufaula, and was told that the reason the lake was as good as it was was because all of the vegetation that was under water when they flooded the new lake when they built the dam in Fort Gaines. Now that most of it was either eaten or rotted away, the bass aren’t as big as they used to be. Don’t know how true any of that is, but that’s what I was told.
Posted on 4/23/22 at 7:20 pm to finchmeister08
They spray here. That’s a big issue
Posted on 4/23/22 at 7:52 pm to lsuson
What do you mean “spray”?
Posted on 4/23/22 at 8:18 pm to finchmeister08
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Now that most of it was either eaten or rotted away, the bass aren’t as big as they used to be.
Sounds a lot like Caney
Posted on 4/23/22 at 8:56 pm to finchmeister08
28lbs won last weekend with a 10-1/2 kicker. However, I will personally attest that the lake is fishing very tough right now if you don’t have fresh and off the beaten path brush piles. The lake is absolutely chock full of man made brush piles every where you look. Finding the right ones are the key.
The spray problem is how the COE manages this lake. It is an abomination of why they are purposely putting out herbicide to control vegetation growth when fishing is the economic driver of that area in re: to tourism. They are trying to balance a lake for “boater” recreational fun and good fishing, but in the process are destroying the bass habitat coupled with introduction of huge predatory fish (stripers/hydrides).
The good news is, is that it looks like the outdoorsmen have been heard and they are not spraying anything...at least for now. Vegetation is quickly rebounding from my trip yesterday
ETA: I’m guessing you made the trip over as part of the Bullet Boat Ralley this week. Met a lot of people from over in ArkLaTex.
The spray problem is how the COE manages this lake. It is an abomination of why they are purposely putting out herbicide to control vegetation growth when fishing is the economic driver of that area in re: to tourism. They are trying to balance a lake for “boater” recreational fun and good fishing, but in the process are destroying the bass habitat coupled with introduction of huge predatory fish (stripers/hydrides).
The good news is, is that it looks like the outdoorsmen have been heard and they are not spraying anything...at least for now. Vegetation is quickly rebounding from my trip yesterday
ETA: I’m guessing you made the trip over as part of the Bullet Boat Ralley this week. Met a lot of people from over in ArkLaTex.
This post was edited on 4/23/22 at 9:05 pm
Posted on 4/23/22 at 8:57 pm to lsuson
Buddy of mine has 2500 acres leased next to it. Nice deer hunting. Never fished it, but stayed on it a few times hunting. Kills some hammers.
Posted on 4/23/22 at 9:34 pm to EagleEye99
From what I understand they sprayed 5 weeks ago and sprayed again this week
Posted on 4/23/22 at 9:42 pm to EagleEye99
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coupled with introduction of huge predatory fish (stripers/hydrides).
Being an Auburn man you should know that Auburn done a study and proved that striped bass had very little affect to the black bass population. Black bass primarily eat crayfish and stripers/hybrids primarily eat shad.
This post was edited on 4/23/22 at 9:44 pm
Posted on 4/23/22 at 9:46 pm to lsuson
quote:Sprayed what?
From what I understand they sprayed 5 weeks ago and sprayed again this week
Posted on 4/23/22 at 10:02 pm to AlxTgr
Whatever they use to kill grass
Posted on 4/24/22 at 4:25 am to lsuson
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But since I’ve been here I doubt I’ll fish it again. 12 lbs won a boat tournament last weekend. Crazy. This lake used to be “The Lake”. How times have changed.
That's just about every lake now with the tremendous fishing pressure they are under, there are just too many "tournaments"
Too many dumbasses with bassboats
Posted on 4/24/22 at 7:10 am to lsuson
Same way at Toledo Bend. They killed all the hydrilla and now the bass fishing sucks. And all the tournaments probably aint helping.
Posted on 4/24/22 at 7:20 am to VernonPLSUfan
quote:They absolutely did not. What they spray and probably more importantly, how they apply, for surface vegetation like torpedo and Salvinia has no adverse effect on hydrilla.
Same way at Toledo Bend. They killed all the hydrilla
Posted on 4/24/22 at 9:45 am to AlxTgr
You are getting downvoted but you ain’t wrong
Posted on 4/24/22 at 10:09 am to VernonPLSUfan
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now the bass fishing sucks
Lol
This post was edited on 4/24/22 at 10:10 am
Posted on 4/24/22 at 12:24 pm to AlxTgr
I was told the drastic changes in the water level had the most effect on the hydrilla in TB. I haven’t been in a couple of years. My dad recently made a trip and they caught some nice fish. So I’d say the fishing doesn’t suck.
This post was edited on 4/24/22 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 4/24/22 at 12:34 pm to PillageUrVillage
Yeah they had a couple of 500 year floods pretty much back to back High water and turbidity doesn’t allow sunlight to get to the submerged plants
Posted on 4/24/22 at 1:04 pm to VernonPLSUfan
It still takes 25-30 pounds to win most of the bigger tournaments on Toledo Bend.
Posted on 4/24/22 at 2:35 pm to lsuson
Why your Bass fishing sucks.
Too much catch and release. Lakes and ponds need to be managed and C&R is rarely the answer.
Bass are smart, they won't be fooled twice by the same thing
For some reason we destroy every bit of vegetation in our waterways. I don't care if it is invasive or native, you need the habitat.
You know where bass are plentiful? The marsh. Nobody catches and releases bass in the marsh. You can always find bass in the marsh. You don't get trophy bass in the marsh, but that isn't the environment you would find trophy bass. You will find trophy bass in managed lakes that allow harvest and harvest enough bass AND competing species to balance adult populations with populations of forage fish and they are often full of man made habitat!!! I will never understand killing free growing habitat to put down expensive combinations of pipes and fake dead trees but it does work.
Too much catch and release. Lakes and ponds need to be managed and C&R is rarely the answer.
Bass are smart, they won't be fooled twice by the same thing
For some reason we destroy every bit of vegetation in our waterways. I don't care if it is invasive or native, you need the habitat.
You know where bass are plentiful? The marsh. Nobody catches and releases bass in the marsh. You can always find bass in the marsh. You don't get trophy bass in the marsh, but that isn't the environment you would find trophy bass. You will find trophy bass in managed lakes that allow harvest and harvest enough bass AND competing species to balance adult populations with populations of forage fish and they are often full of man made habitat!!! I will never understand killing free growing habitat to put down expensive combinations of pipes and fake dead trees but it does work.
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