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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13862825 01/27/21 04:16 AM
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joe pool before they killed the grass bang

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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13862852 01/27/21 04:55 AM
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Amon G Carter use to spit out DD’s on the regular. Especially on the old cemetery road bed.

Amistad during spring break in HS you could sight fish 100 bass a day. I learned a ton looking at that many.

Hubbard Creek on a Shad spawn with a square bill is some of my best memories. I had 2 9lbers & a 10lber in an hour one April morning. It was incredible!

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: Jimbo] #13862859 01/27/21 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Jimbo
Falcon
Amistad
Calaveras
Braunig

I'm talking mid seventies and the eighties. During the Heyday of the introduction of the Florida strain bass.


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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13862885 01/27/21 09:37 AM
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Guerrero in the late 70s
Seminole in the 70s, 80s and early 90s
Fork in the 80s and early 90s

Runner ups
Caney in the 90s
Big O in the 80s and 90s
Toledo Bend in the 60s, 70s and 80s
Falcon in the 70s at 28 feet low
Rayburn is still my favorite of all time tho!

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13863024 01/27/21 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by senko9S
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.

Stik Marsh
Fork
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never saw a smallie at monti.


He has to be talking about a different Monticello

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13863037 01/27/21 01:53 PM
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Ivie in 2009-2011 I caught multiple 8 pounders those years

JB Thomas 2017-2018 I could catch 10-40 bass a day in the 1-5 pound range

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13863050 01/27/21 01:57 PM
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OH Ivie, was killer and is coming back big time.
Cooper, Loved that lake back in the day. Miss staying at the Fishermans lodge, great people and great SOS in the mornings. Lots of great memories there.
Amistad

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13863052 01/27/21 01:58 PM
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Pick any three. They were all glory days before the onslaught of Covid boats.


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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13863058 01/27/21 02:01 PM
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Guerrero
Falcon
Champlain

until I fished

Picachos
El Salto
Comedero

and those three lakes are unbelievable....

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13863108 01/27/21 02:28 PM
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Lake Pauline near Quanah
Lake Kemp near Seymour
ant no mo' near Crowell


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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13863117 01/27/21 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by senko9S
What are some of yalls glory day stories from the past, specifically top 3 lakes?

Fork obviously comes to mind. I remember fishing with Hollice Joiner in the 80's before the timber fell and the grass was immaculate. he would run timber lined "guide lanes" in his Charger like a NASCAR race. crazy fun. fishing was insane, never have seen so many huge schools of 5-8 pounders in the mouths of the major creeks certain times of the year. matted floating islands of hydrilla, it was insane, catch em however you wanted to.

Ray Roberts brings back some memories as well. Sand branch trap bite in the spring would get your arm broke off, lots of 10-12 pounders cruising around there in the spring. Then you had the wolf island hydrilla flat drifts. that's where I learned the magic of bubblegum flukes. start on one end and let the wind push you for ever throwing over the grass. also remember black light fishing at night on the humps in the early 90's.

Cooper was a unique gem for a few years. you didn't even need a map. you could easily see every road bed, fence line, channel etc. Pitching tubes in 14ft of water along the tree lined roadbed going into doctors was a blast. During the spawn you could go deep into the forest and sight fish double digit bass spawning on huge horizontal oak tree limbs near the surface on the edge of the river channel in deep water. 10 pounders being caught daily by many anglers

what are some of yalls? texas

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If Texas Parks and Wildlife would allow Hydrilla to grow, there wouldn't be a lake in Texas that wasn't a dream.

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13863148 01/27/21 02:50 PM
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EVERY lake, before they killed the grass.

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13863179 01/27/21 03:10 PM
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Fairfield.......back in the Redfish days! Loved going out there and catching about 30 Redfish and 30 bass in one day!

Fork back in the late 80's and 90's.

Cooper Lake in the 90's

Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: crapyetr] #13863186 01/27/21 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by crapyetr
Lake Pauline near Quanah
Lake Kemp near Seymour
ant no mo' near Crowell


I went to High School in Quanah (Class of 83). Lake Pauline was a good one. We lived between Medicine Mound and the Pease River and had about a 60 acre lake on the ranch that was insane! I'm originally from Big Sandy/Hawkins area and had the good fortune of watching Fork fill up. My Uncle would carry my twin brother and me to Fork, Palestine, Tawakoni and Texoma all the time back then. Those were the days!


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Re: the glory days... top 3 lakes you remember [Re: senko9S] #13863199 01/27/21 03:22 PM
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Conroe
Taylor Lake
Toledo
all in the 70's

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