Fishing Generating Flow Rate

[Charlie K.]

How does the release of water on lakes effect the fishing ? I fish a lake that is usually at a constant level except when we have heavy rains. After heavy rains they keep the level of the lake I fish constant but they will generate around the clock trying to keep areas above and below me from flooding. Any suggestions on fishing while they are generating.

[revengable]

40 years ago all that cold water would move the bass and crappie up into the Big Mazarn. Stokes creek and Bull Bayou I don't recall any effect.

[constructskeeter]

Yeah I'm guessing he's talking about Hamelton which for the most part stays constant with very little rise I noticed while living over there. Now other lakes like Dequeen, Gillham, and Deirks where I grew up and am now it sucks to have falling water. I fished Gillham other day which was about normal after a big rise they'd sucked her back down and it had leveled out. We had 14 crappie that morning and my buddy had to leave early so I hit Dequeen which was about 5' tall and falling fast....I never caught a fish and I talked to an Old man who crappie fishes everyday who said they hadn't either and they wasn't biting. We fished a bass tournament Memorial Day weekend and the day before caught 2 bass that was 6+ in less than 2hr fishing, they put the suck on her that next day, day of the tournament and we barely caught anything! I fished a short bass tournament on Dequeen last night and falling water almost skunked us so you can imagine my thoughts on falling water. I'm nearly 40yr old and I know guys in their 60's and 70's who don't have an answer for falling water, it's not a good thing!