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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13435860 02/11/20 09:40 PM
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Grew up fishing Cypress Springs, got to fish it while it was full of grass and had many great days out there. Even after the grass first started to disappear we had them dialed in on brush piles for a few years. Now its tough to catch 5+s out there, but back in the late 90s early 2000s it seemed like we would catch a couple every trip. Did get to fish fork until later on but when i first got out there it was still covered in grass and had some great days throwing the frog and swiming a skinny dipper along and through the hydrilla. Seems like both had one thing in common... Grass. If TPWD want to grow monster bass they need to make sure aquatic vegetation is healthy in the lakes


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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: Bruce Allen] #13435940 02/11/20 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Allen
Monticello take 30 # to win. Every time the club fished it we broke another club record. Great smallmouth fishing too.

Fawn Lake was loaded with 8 # plus bass. Until a guy started potting it for his dinner. I'll bet I caught over a hundred of them, but all of mine were catch and release. Or I caught the same 8+ 100 times.
Caught 1 that went 9 on a mechanical scale. At the time the state record was just over 10.
Also saw the biggest alligator snapping turtle in it. Probably went 2-300 pounds. Big as a saltwater turtle. Maybe a 150 years old. That year everything that floated on the water got eaten except the adult swans.

Cypress . Never got skunked on that lake. Just real good fishing except for the sand bass.

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never saw a smallie at monti.

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13436040 02/11/20 11:29 PM
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7 pages and none of you fools has got to the REAL DEAL yet. Fork would’ve never been Fork, or any of the rest of ‘em for that matter, without Lake Echo. It’s pointless to tell y’all, you wouldn’t even believe it.

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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13436456 02/12/20 05:24 AM
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West Texas guy here. 1. E.V. Spence 2. Lake Kemp. 3. Hubbard Creek

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: RedEar12] #13436558 02/12/20 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by RedEar12
7 pages and none of you fools has got to the REAL DEAL yet. Fork would’ve never been Fork, or any of the rest of ‘em for that matter, without Lake Echo. It’s pointless to tell y’all, you wouldn’t even believe it.

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What ever happened to this lake?....Is it still there? Wasn't it a private lake?


Just one more cast!

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13436625 02/12/20 01:47 PM
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Think it depends on where you live. I fished Rayburn, Toledo and Fayette mostly. Those would be my top 3. Spent alot of time on Livingston growing up.

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13437161 02/12/20 06:34 PM
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1. Fork
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: Razorback] #13862514 01/26/21 11:43 PM
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Oh yeah; and you and me unless you're native. Of course, even Native Americans came here only 10,000 years ago.

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: BMCD] #13862591 01/27/21 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by BMCD
Think it depends on where you live. I fished Rayburn, Toledo and Fayette mostly. Those would be my top 3. Spent alot of time on Livingston growing up.



Yep Believe it or not Livingston, from what I was told is the first lake in Texas that had hydrilla. You could go into any cove or pocket and it was crystal clear. You could literally see 4-5lbs fish swimming around like a fish tank. Great lake at the time for numbers.
Rayburn was also unbelieveable in the early to late 80's. My mom would drop off me and a friend at Tiger Creek in the morning and we would wade fish all day and catch 20lbs sacks.
Caught the end of the good fishing at Choke and Falcon about 2008 to 12. If you didn't catch a couple of 7-8 lbs bass it was considered a bad trip.
Dunlap was on fire when we first moved to New Braunfels pumping out 8-10 lbs fish weekly, until word got out on a few forums. Until about 2015 I had my boat close to Dunlap so I could fish after work.
Still can't believe it's gone! SMDH

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13862638 01/27/21 01:27 AM
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My glory days were a few years back:

Thomas Hill - best warm water lake ever. Colder it got, the better the fishing.
Shelbyville - new lake effect, could catch over 100 per day easy. No monsters though.
Stockton - new lake effect. could make 3 casts gong down a bank, catch a 4 lb LM, a 6 lb walleye and a 10 lb northern.
Kinkaid - new lake effect. Honorable mention. Huge northerns mixed in with the LM.

Originally a Yankee.

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: Scoundrel] #13862682 01/27/21 02:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Scoundrel
Originally Posted by Bass Buster1
Originally Posted by senko9S
I missed out on big creek, I was at the other ____ creek...


^^^In a borrowed Pond Hopper from the BPS days before they killed the grass, those were good times Dave^^^


Fork - Before they sprayed the grass, killed the fish and called it LMBV - first time I went with Dean Strohman RIP

Purtis Creek - Before they sprayed the grass

Ray Roberts - Before they sprayed the grass

Oh and I almost forgot BBR park in HEB area, only needed one bait, a superfluke... grin

I think there might be a common theme here...


BBR before it was a park, before superflukes were invented - weightless Fliptail Lizards
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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13862696 01/27/21 02:15 AM
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Monticello, Fork, Purtis Creek

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13862712 01/27/21 02:33 AM
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Lake Nacogdoches around 2000. Little grass but acres of pads and 4-7lbers that had never seen a frog before. Neither had we....found some snag proof and the rest is history. It was as good as frog fishing can get.

Kurth 1999-2010....early 2000's was the best sight fishing that's possible on a body of water. 35-50lbs literally every day nearly the entire spawn. Almost hard to believe looking back. It truly was a peaked out unpressured fishery. I know of atleast 3 fish over 13 caught and a 15+ found floating. It was nuts. Some days you'd see 5-10 dd's in several hundred yards of bank.

Of course falcon 2011 ... easiest 40lb bags ive ever caught cranking. 25lb fluorocarbon and dd22's. We didn't know just how good it was. Should've stayed a couple months.

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13862717 01/27/21 02:36 AM
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Holbrook in the early 90's.
Fork in the 90's

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13862755 01/27/21 03:08 AM
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