I just wish I could use my knowledge and experience fishing a post 2000 Fork and fish it 86-92. Not that my knowledge or experience is all that great but man that would be awesome to fish some spots I can imagine used to be wonderful like you guys describe.
Oddly, I did catch one of my bigger bass there spring 2000, but things were different already.
I missed it at its best for sure.
Anybody have a time machine?

Spraying of the grass I think was the main cause. But not by Sabine. In the early 90's was the big boom around Fork for homes being built. I would witness people all the time spraying their own grass on their shorelines with who knows what. You start mixing tons of different chemicals in the water and some in the dead grass, bad $hit is gonna happen, and it did.

And I don't think they learned a damn thing either... because this year they sprayed ostensibly to kill salvinia in Glade, but killed all the pads too, and all the trees close to the water

Billy....dad and I went to fish our spots during Berkley and our spots were not there, well, the pads were gone. Sucked but I figured out some hydrilla and we caught some there...got him a check one more time

Well that sux's, I understand the concern over the Salvina. We reported a small patch in Penson, our arm of the lake. It was confirmed and eradicated quickly 2 yrs ago, they didn't over due it just the affected area..
Interesting thoughts on the Hyacinth and possibly the Salvina.. The extreme cold last couple weeks teens&twenty's will knock the Hyacinth back, I've seen that myself in 2011-2012, two above average cold winters.. I haven't been out since before Christmas, so I'm curious to see how North Birch creek looks..
Those extreme temps work in favor of killing those foreign invaders from warm countries, hopefully the GS will get its azz kicked from some uncomfortable weather....

tx- the only good news from what I was told is what they sprayed back there doesn't affect underwater vegetation like hydrilla. Thank goodness!!!! Cause we found some too right behind some land we just bought in there.

There was a good bit of hydrilla all back in that arm so that's good for me too....but I always catch fish in those pads so I hope they come back by legends.... going to be hard to fish it without dad, but I am going to do it....need to win a boat in his honor.

I saw some very lively looking salvinia floating around the boat dock at Monticello the first of this month.

I was out there several times before it shut down and a couple of times in the summer. Hyacinth yes, Salvinia, never saw any.