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the largest stocking ever done of grass carp


They were trying to rid Santee Cooper of hydrilla. If I was trying to kill hydrilla I would do the same thing But They did no such thing on Toledo

They stocked about 4x too many carp on Caney Lake years ago and it decimated the grass. So much so that the carl would follow people around while they were mowing their yards they were so hungry

Turbidity and fluctuating water levels killed the hydrilla on Toledo
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NW Ark is eaten up with it. That’s pretty South


Agree. Deer density in some of those counties are like one deer per square mile.
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The poison the state sprays kills the submergent vegetation along with the floating. Anyone that claims otherwise is in denial.



Do you know how many acres of hydrilla used to be in Toledo Bend?!

The amount of herbicide it would take to have killed all that would be unfathomable.
A lot of talking heads that make tons of money from the deer industry (Dr Deer, etc) bash all the agencies for what they do. However they never come out and give their suggestions on what needs to be done

They may stay in the tree a little bit longer. Main thing is your ability to hear them and them hearing you will be affected

It was pretty dang windy last Saturday for youth hunt but the birds did exactly what they did the day before

Its breeding season m, a turkey wants to breed. Wind, rain, whatever
When you see LDWF or TPWD spraying out there, they are spraying salvinia which gets tangled up in that hay grass (also a non native but that’s beside the point)

Hydrilla is non native but isn’t a target out there. Hay grass isn’t a target either

You don’t want salvinia taking over that place like it has about 10 lakes north of Toledo
Do you realize how much herbicide it would take to have killed all the hydrilla on Toledo bend?

We had 500 year floods back to back and then droughts That’s what killed the hydrilla
The biologists for LDWF know what they are doing. They make recommendations but never get listened to. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

As far as bass, many lakes need fish taken out of them but people throw them back. The slot limits are put in place for the sole reason that fish are expected to be taken out of the population.


Toledo is one of the few bodies of water that are truly affected by people taking bass out the population

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Lacassine


I don’t agree it’s overfished. About 50 or more percent of Lacassine is inaccessible Can’t even get to the fish
A duck would starve to death in Toledo Not much duck food anymore except in a few highly pressured fishing areas

(Non fish eating ducks)
I have no qualms about keeping bass at all.

The catch and release folks will bash keeping a bass but will catch a bunch of fish on beds, throw them in the livewell for a few hours, take some hero pics, then release them 10 miles from where they were caught.
But we were up there bass fishing the first week of march and a guy was doing well on the shallow cypress trees which had me questioning why the hell we were bass fishing and not doing that

The water temp was 67 degrees that day so I would imagine the first wave has definitely spawned

Most the Darbonne perch fishermen I know are very tight lipped when they start spawning. If they tell you a report, you are already a week late

re: Crappie spawn at D’arbonne

Posted by Ron Cheramie on 3/30/26 at 7:25 am to
Yo-yo fishing is odd to me. You can catch white perch at night on yo-yos in January in 2 feet of water when the water temp is in the 40s but you won’t catch a fish there on a pole til mid march when the water temp is in the 60s I guess they roam shallow at night or something because the majority of them caught in January or February are still in the channels at 35 feet deep Never made sense to me
We caught a pile of them like that years ago. Had to make a long run to the Flemish Cap. Damn ice machine broke on us so had to cut the trip short
How many batteries total do you have and how many banks are in the charger?

Is it a Noco genius charger?

re: FFS and the Bassmasters

Posted by Ron Cheramie on 3/20/26 at 2:41 pm to
Forward Facing Sonar. Livescope

re: FFS and the Bassmasters

Posted by Ron Cheramie on 3/19/26 at 7:13 pm to
Josh jones is an elite scoper. Without FFS no one would know who he is. He is also very arrogant because he can flat out catch big fish

He would never enter the tournament scene because he probably makes more money being an arrogant Internet personality. People pay him $3k plus to go on guided trips and his YouTube videos probably make him more than he would make winning the Bassmasters Classic

He is just doing what he does. Getting clicks and growing his brand


re: Public Land Turkey Hunting

Posted by Ron Cheramie on 3/19/26 at 12:37 pm to
Bad outbreak of ligma last year took out a bunch of them

Pass A Loutre is loaded though
The center of the new mitigation zone looks to be Darbonne NWR. Anyone know anything about where the deer was killed?
I know quite a few folks that hunt that area and I can guarantee they are not going to stop feeding

re: 36v Lithium Battery

Posted by Ron Cheramie on 3/2/26 at 6:38 am to
I have 4 LiTimes 12v 100 ah. Couldn’t be happier. Got them during Christmas in 2024 on flash sale. Think they were $120 each. I have the Ultrex 36v trolling motor and have ran. It all day in wind and have never seen it below 90 percent.

The Bluetooth is pretty cool Download the app scan the barcode and you should be good

Never heard anything bad about power queen either

The dealer wanted to sell me Ionics or Dakotas and they were ridiculously expensive.

Lead for cranking. Lithium everything else. Get you a Noco Genius onboard charger and you are good to go Baw