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Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: Clint Wr] #13282631 09/16/19 03:59 PM
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If your going to Amistad now days its for the scenery not the fishing... most of our local lakes out produce Amistad darn near every day of the week. Weird how Falcon seems to continue to produce much better quality and Amistad became a dink factory. Those weights Derbra posted are a joke.




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Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: Clint Wr] #13282632 09/16/19 04:00 PM
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Debra was this up to 4 teams per Club (8 members)? 50 lbs won this? For two days? We'll see what the S.I.T. does. Locals are struggling some right now including guides. If locals fish 2-3 times a week and struggle I can definitely see out of towners not fishing but once a month struggling.

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: 6BOOMER] #13282765 09/16/19 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by 6BOOMER
Debra was this up to 4 teams per Club (8 members)? 50 lbs won this? For two days? We'll see what the S.I.T. does. Locals are struggling some right now including guides. If locals fish 2-3 times a week and struggle I can definitely see out of towners not fishing but once a month struggling.


Correct ^^^
Each club is allowed to drop the lightest weight each day. If the first place team had 5 fish per boat (4) boats with (1) drop potentially 30 fish for the 50.13 win overall.

I did not participate just passing on the info

Debra cool

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: Clint Wr] #13282775 09/16/19 05:38 PM
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Wow O’ Wow, I was told it was slow; but that is real sloowwww.

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: Clint Wr] #13282795 09/16/19 05:48 PM
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Needs to come up 30ft and hold for a year....

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: Clint Wr] #13283367 09/17/19 02:41 AM
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Bassmaster 2007 happened. Now that MLF and BASS have smaller fields and are going to smaller lakes pray they don't come to your honey hole roflmao Tenkiller is about to get outed probably.

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Originally Posted by Legend LE-195
Bassmaster 2007 happened. Now that MLF and BASS have smaller fields and are going to smaller lakes pray they don't come to your honey hole roflmao Tenkiller is about to get outed probably.


Lol nobody going to tenkiller with fillet knives for 2lbers

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: Clint Wr] #13283707 09/17/19 02:32 PM
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Meat fisherman isn't the problem, or Bass because we caught a lot of big stringers until around 2014. Locals think that when Mexico had to dump a ton of water that put Amistad 7' over full for 2 weeks that there was something that was bad in the water that killed a lot of fish, said the water had a oil type off color film on it. There are a lot of mines in the mountains around the lakes in northern Mexico that release water into the Rio Grande. that along with the lack of bait fish. Quit stocking Stripers would help.

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: pil,b] #13283814 09/17/19 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by pil,b
Meat fisherman isn't the problem, or Bass because we caught a lot of big stringers until around 2014. Locals think that when Mexico had to dump a ton of water that put Amistad 7' over full for 2 weeks that there was something that was bad in the water that killed a lot of fish, said the water had a oil type off color film on it. There are a lot of mines in the mountains around the lakes in northern Mexico that release water into the Rio Grande. that along with the lack of bait fish. Quit stocking Stripers would help.


The Mexico dam break was always my theory. Hasn’t been the same since.

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: Clint Wr] #13284021 09/17/19 06:15 PM
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I don't get the blame Bass , how many years was that, there are other big tournaments that go there also.

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: Clint Wr] #13284078 09/17/19 06:49 PM
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Lack of baitfish in one thing, there will be lots of very poor looking fish caught. All head and the body will look like they been under the knife and the skin laid back on them.

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: 206champion] #13284409 09/17/19 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by 206champion
I don't get the blame Bass , how many years was that, there are other big tournaments that go there also.


That started it. Amistad had a tremendous genetic base back then. Same thing happened to falcon. Luckily for falcon, it's a different fishery with a better consistent forage base and more cover even when low. Turbid water definitely helps too. Once you start removing huge amounts of larger classes of fish, it takes years to get those fish back. Its my opinion obviously, same thing happening to Toledo.

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: 206champion] #13284439 09/17/19 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by 206champion
I don't get the blame Bass , how many years was that, there are other big tournaments that go there also.


After Bass went there like 3 years in a row and 8 lbers were caught left and right, and Televised nationally, people from other states, as in, many states away began flocking to Amistad for their vacations. Many of them, realizing they might not be back, put fillet knives to a lot of big females, especially during the spring. Good for the Del Rio economy, not good for Amistad. I was raised in Del Rio and fished tournaments there since I was 10 years old. Fishing sucked back in the 80s and 90s, not sure why mid 2000’s were so good, but when a lake begins to put out off the chart fishing, inevitably, people find out and it’s never a good thing.

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: Clint Wr] #13284606 09/18/19 02:11 AM
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Honestly, I don’t know how any lake could thrive when they dump the water every year during or right after the spawn. Mexico isn’t doing us any favors with their piss poor water management.

Re: What happened to Lake Amistad [Re: Clint Wr] #13284884 09/18/19 12:58 PM
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There is little man can do to make changes to this fishery or to Falcon for that matter.. Or let me rephrase..

There is little man WILL do to improve these fisheries.

The biggest of the battles now, and in the near future is water.. And who controls it.

The International Water and Boundary Commission (IWBC), TCEQ, and a host of other acronyms believe that they are doing a good job of managing the water supply along the Rio Grande..

Why do they think that? Because there is still water coming out of faucets in all the cities along the border and water still runs down the ditches in the fields..


And you can ask any of their "Managers" and they will tell you that fishing is purely a by product of the two lakes creation..
I have had folks tell me that they don't care if another fish is ever caught out of Falcon.


And when you boil it all down, I guess the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the not quite as many..


Do I think the IWBC is doing a good job with water and management of the Rio Grande? [censored] no..

I think it is one of the biggest government boondoggles in America.. Go take a look at their budget, see how many employees they have, see what they do, and look at the results of what they do. We are not getting a good ROI.. Of course most anything the federal government manages it [censored] up.. And wastes more than it creates..


We as fishermen, and lovers of both fisheries, are purely and simply at the mercy of mother nature.. PAW can stock all kinds of fish.. And it does.. And being that we are primarily bass fishermen discussing this issue, it is good to know that PAW routinely stocks both lakes every year with almost a half million fingerling bass.

But stocking them does not a great fishery make. A lot of things have to happen to make a fishery decent, much less great..

And man is out of control for the most part..


Amistad is fairly antiseptic for the most part, with its rock perimeter in a very high percentage of its shorelines. Less condusive to the growth of brush and trees.. But the Hydrilla is a savior and the one thing that keeps the lake as good as it is.


Falcon on the other hand is probably a third rock bank, and the rest a mix of sand soil that the bushes and trees and you name it love.. If there is any moisture to grow it.. But I can tell you that right now the top fifteen feet of what would be pool level is so thick with huisache and retama and mesquite that you cannot run a hog thru it..


Both of these lakes will get better.. And they will get worse.. They will improve when a disaster happens and fills both of them.. And Falcon will never be full till Amistad is.. Unless IWBC decides to keep Amistad lower.. Which is being discussed by the way, instead of spending a half a billion dollars trying to plug up Amistad's leaks..

It truly takes a disaster to fill these lakes. And with todays management for flood control and water supply being the yin and the yang it is a difficult task to serve both masters..


When the flood of 2010 hit, both lakes had a lot of room for water.. But they hold a miniscule amount compared to what rain can fall in a very short period of time.


We are just waiting for that time.. Both lakes will fill again.. There will be a resurgence in the fishing.. And truthfully all we can do is have some Florida fish in the lakes, and wait for Mother Nature to do her thing.. The rest will take care of itself.


BTW.. If yall think that water in Amistad is bad water from Mexico.. Send it to me.. We'll make bass out of it..


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