My son and I only had the pleasure of fishing it once. We started out the trip hitting a big stump dead center my lower unit at 25 mph. Wow what a wake up. It was right in front of the RR bridge. Unbelievably no damage at all. There was a supper nice guy in a white Bass Cat that gave me advice on where to run. He also gave us a few good spots and as he left gave my son his last package of purple fleck PW. We had been struggling at that point but with his help we caught 35 bass in an hour and had 3 doubles. I will never forget how he was selfless and helped us out. It was a great time and sure wish is wasn�t ending.

That was Bob Garcia. He was a fireman in Grand Prairie. And CAMP is the correct word here.

Garcia's Hump is named after him because he would tie up both ends of his gold Ranger to stumps and soak a big worm. It is 8' on top of the hump and Blundell Creek makes a hard bend in a "C" shape around it. It is a very small spot, maybe 30X50 feet. He would stay in one spot on that hump for 24-48 hours at a time and never move his boat. He kept his boat cover in the rod box so when he got sleepy he would just lie down across the bench seats of his boat and pull the tarp over him so he would get soaking wet with all the fog & dew.

Back in the heyday of Monty they would take a Polaroid pic of every fish over 7# and hang it on the board at Kountry Korner. Bob's pic would be on that board every week, sometimes with multiple big fish from his trip. Back then the most popular worm was a 12" Mister Twister Phenom in Black Neon color.

The best big crankbaits we had then were the Rebel Maxi-R, Arbogast Mudbug, and the Bagley DB3.

There were a few guys from that area around Mt. Pleasant that could really catch 'em and I mean catch 'em good. Just to name a few, Joe Huff, Sammy Donaldson, Gerald Roebuck, Tommy Milam. I fished with Tommy & Gerald many times there. They taught me the lake.

Jimmy Kimball broke the long standing State Record with his 14.09 State Record in Feb. 1980. I got to talk with Jimmy shortly after he caught his fish while fishing down the pipeline on morning. Such a nice man, very humble. He was by himself when he caught the record. He had no idea what his fish was about to do to the crowd at Monty. Redskeeter on here is related to him. That started the mad rush to Monty in search of Big Bass Gold. Talk about long lines at the ramp!

Ken, Bob worked at Fort Worth Fire Dept. !

Cool buddy. Do you know if he is still alive and well?

So is the plant shut down for good as of now? Gonna be cold but I might make a trip up there tomorrow if it's still running.

Me and my buddy had our 1st trip today got on water 830 went back behind railroad bridge ripping red traps out the hydrilla patches then wind picked up and so did the fog