No drought perhaps. Water levels didn’t recede far enough out to allow for the “normal” growth were used to. Freeze didn’t help either.
Tawakoni has been full or over full for a good while and was during the freeze if I recall. As a friend pointed out its odd that a small lake like Holbrook still has its vegetation as it froze too.
I think the carp have started to take over Tawakoni. I was there at the end of March and every inch of shorline from north to south seemed to be covered with carp.
And Hawkins on the other hand is tiny in comparison and the vegetation there is out of control. The freeze had no effect on Hawkins.
I know a 10lber was caught Tuesday off a bed that also had a lot of carp thrashing in same area. Really opened my eyes not pass to through spots like that too fast because of the carp.
I was catching them good on a frog about 10 yards out from the carp. The bass were still there, just not shallow enough to see, for me anyways. Of course passing up the areas where the carp were wasnt really an option for me since they were all over the lake that weekend. I beleive that was the weekend of the last full moon.