There are NO fish in Granger....
Managed 39 2 sat ago and 32 last sat..... gotta be able to fish the open water though. Yes, the protected BP's will be over fished and then some! It is an easy lake to fish... If you know it.
I love the wind.. bring it on.... I am one of the few that can fish it with 2-3' swells
How many fish I catch depends on how long my TM batteries last. These days its only till 1030. If you do a lot of kayak fish get with one of the guys that does it a lot on Granger (kayakin4crappie). He does really well from his Yak... even with the wind.
you guys grew up on that lake, so you know things most may never know.
I recall when I was a kid, there was this little lake, (in louisiana we would call a pond), that I used to go fish for perch and later bass when I got my first boat. (a 12 foot aluminum with 3 pounds of fiberglass on the bottom, towed by foot with a homemade cart made with old bicycle wheels and 2x4s.
Many times I would go and there was an old man sitting on the bank, catching perch. He would make a little bouncer rig, with a sinker on the bottom and hook a few inches up.
He always caught fish, so I would study what he was doing. I noticed that he always tried to cast to the same area. One day I asked him, what he thought was special abt that spot, that made the fish want to go there. He told me, I know exactly what is down there, because I walked on it as a kid. The gentleman went on to tell me, that during a bad hurricane, Betsy I believe it was,maybe in the 40s or 50s , the authorities decided to blast the levee on side of the mighty mississippi river, and flood the parish where we were instead of risking flooding the whole port city of new orleans, where most of the population and infrastructure was. . So that is exactly what they did, and that is what had created that pond. Before it was flooded, there was a train route that went across the land, and the train tracks were still there. That is what the old man was fishing, the train tracks. The next time we went swimming in the pond, I swam down to around 12 feet, and found that there were indeed, train tracks on the bottom of the pond.
http://www.nola.com/175years/index.ssf/2012/04/our_times_blasting_mississippi.htmlSo the point here is there is no substitute for local knowledge, and time on the water.
One of the best spots I have on granger, I later found out is what was an old family cemetary, I think there may be some old large tree trunks down there, maybe some old cement encasements or something but its always good for around 5 keeps. I didnt know that until I saw a cross on an old map, and then verified it with a local guide.
heres an interesting link to the story if anyone wants to read it