the grass is the thickest and most spread out I have seen it in 4 years...the pads are also in awesome shape. Even with the colder temps I'm heading there tmro just to see what can happen.

25+years of Monticello for me. It won't die-just fish differently. Not as "winter predictable". Bet you see me in the upper end in the summer!

hope it dont turn into a big fish kill like fairfield..

Nope, Fairfield woes is in part to the temps. Monti will be fine !

Oh yeah.... Nights could be fun up there too

Oh yeah.... Nights could be fun up there too [/quote

Really, I think I will go to Purtis Creek. The trip back to the ramp will not take as long.

I heard from a friends, second cousin's, widowed aunt that they are improving the stacks at Monticello and it would be operational this spring.

Get over it, don't turn this into a political thread.

What did cause the fish kill in Fairfield?

kinda hard to get over it when those people who work there are losing their jobs.

If they quit generating,they will quit pumping water from bob sandlin,monticello water level will be dropping in the furture.

It might fill up with hydrilla now. I remember when the stack collapsed years ago, the water stayed cooler and grass grew like crazy. That will be a bad arse lake if it stays cool

Maybe some of that hydrilla will find its way to cypress springs .....

There are plenty of good lakes to catch fish in the spring and summer. The beauty of Monticello...and other power plant lakes...has been it was a place most of us could get bit in the dead of winter.

I don't hunt anymore so it's just fishing year 'round for me. To heck with going to "normal" lakes and getting two or three bites per day in January.

This is a big loss for a lot of people, fishermen who like to catch fish in the wintertime included.

I heard a couple of years ago Braunig and Calaveras near San Antonio would shut down.

Don't let the water dist. see it, they will put in a million more grass carp.