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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
[Re: 361V]
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02/09/20 03:15 AM
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chickenfried76
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100000% agree. Lake or tank, all of the best fishing I’ve had for LMB is from grass
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
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02/09/20 04:46 AM
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TxDanFishMan
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For me personally I would go with these glory days....
1) Lake Fork - from opening day until LBV came around, day and night fishing was just so good. 2) Monticello - from late 70's thru early 90's, winter time fishing at it's best 3) Ray Roberts - first 10 years of opening, numbers and quality were hard to beat
Toledo would be on the list but I only fished it a half-dozen times and blame myself for not going more to Toledo and Rayburn back in the 80 and 90's.
Slide right, coming in .... Fish On!
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
[Re: senko9S]
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02/09/20 06:00 AM
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Cmack
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Sam Rayburn late 60s, early 70s black forest so thick you dang near had to follow logging trails, Multi acre schools of bass gorging on shad. Toledo Bend, 70s/80s boat lanes covered with schooling fish. Every bush up the creeks had one or more on it. Lake Guerrero 80s through 2005. Catching fish till your hands bled.(wore golf gloves for protection) Multple DD days/nights
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
[Re: senko9S]
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02/09/20 06:18 AM
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Chet
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id like to hear about Zaza Amazing lake, first day first spot sitting in 10 ft casting into 50ft with 30 tall timber. It was a bend in the Rio Zaza and while I tried to get my mind around the drop off my friend from Ks. caught 3 over 7 on consecutive casts. It got better from there.
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
[Re: senko9S]
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02/09/20 12:03 PM
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Okie Poke
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I'm glad to see you posting productive threads instead of being an a-hole on all of your comments. There may be hope for you after all. Hang in there....
how old are you again okie? still butt hurt from a thread you didn't agree with? still have your drunken childish pm, grow up man. No butt hurt here. I can read previous posts. You've changed your demeanor and I'm proud of you
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
[Re: senko9S]
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02/09/20 12:32 PM
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photofishin
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Miller Lake (Ontario Canada) 100+ 3-5lb smallmouth per day per person on topwaters and crankbaits in 1998. I still would put that little lake against anything in the states, mostly due to fish quality and lack of fishing pressure. Rayburn Fayette
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
[Re: 361V]
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02/09/20 01:34 PM
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LakeTylerMan
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Good post. HYDRILLA (and age of lake) but mostly HYDRILLA is going to be the common denominator in this thread. Just sayn! Do you think we can petition TPWD to start putting hydrilla back in some of these lakes? Can't they be convinced some invasive are good? Honeybees were imported from Europe after all?
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
[Re: senko9S]
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02/09/20 01:48 PM
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CCTX
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And horses, cattle, and sheep from Europe Bermuda and St Augustine grass are from Africa
Consider yourselves lucky I did go on a fishing trip to Lake Conroe in the early 1980s. I remember grass everywhere and catching bass on every dock I suppose I can tell the next generations that I got to fish Mountain Creek and Monticello before closure
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
[Re: senko9S]
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02/09/20 02:03 PM
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skeeterbugzx300
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Sam Rayburn & Toledo Bend in the 80's & 90's. Toledo Bend had hydrillia growing up north of Huxley bay. Murvaul & Pinkston was also great.
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
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02/09/20 02:23 PM
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Scoundrel
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Chronologically for me: 1 - Holbrook was good back in the 70’s (even before Florida bass and hydrilla) coontail moss! 2 - Blundell / Monticello - never thought that would come to an end 3 - Fork anytime of the year day or night 4 - RayBob in the early years
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
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02/09/20 04:29 PM
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tejasbass
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I'll add Richland Chambers to the list.
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
[Re: senko9S]
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02/09/20 04:45 PM
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machinist
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Since I have never fished East of Ft Worth all of my lakes are out West. Oh yeah I am a old. 1. Hubbard Creek started fishing it in the late 60's. Man it was awesome back then. 2. Amistad fished it the first time in 1969. There were lots of 50 & 60 fish days back then 3. E. V. Spence was there the first day the public was allowed on the lake. 1970 I think
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I fish on the edge and stay out of the middle
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
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02/09/20 05:14 PM
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Jimbo
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Interesting thread to say the least.
The consensus seems to be that our lakes are not what they used to be, and that grass was a good thing. In other words our lakes have not gotten better no matter how many share a lunker offspring have been stocked.
Consider the fact that during those early years of the 60's 70's and 80's the sophisticated electronics and other high tech equipment wasn't even available yet.
Take away all the electronics from today's fisherman and they will be lost!
Just one more cast!
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
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02/09/20 05:54 PM
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Ranger1
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Cooper for me best five ever came from there 47+ Fished a C.A.S.T. tourney there came in with 37lbs and did not even make the top 3 that day.
Then Fork, When I got finished with milking cows I would always drop my tin boat off into Fork and back then the lake wasn't even opened as of yet. The dairy backed up in the back of birch. The timber was so thick you would loose sight of anything within 30-40 yards.
Then my next would be Toledo Bend Love Love TB
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember
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02/09/20 06:58 PM
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D1988
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It seem as the grass goes so goes the fishing. It is something that everyone will ask, have seen any and where. I remember when you could fine grass in 20 ft of water on Sam Rayburn. It was great.
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