Lake Cortez Hot springs village

[pilotscb]

Anybody ever fish it?

[RCC]

I have fished Cortez one afternoon. It gave us a pretty good beating, but a person could probably learn it. We caught a few fish on the north side, not far from the ramp on the west end. This was a few years ago and not current information.

[ibmack]

thought the lakes at the village could only be used by land/homeowners or possibly by a guest (kind of like the golf courses). if that is incorrect, let me know what i have to do to get on them.

[NIMROD]

thought the lakes at the village could only be used by land/homeowners or possibly by a guest (kind of like the golf courses). if that is incorrect, let me know what i have to do to get on them.

Buy you a cheap lot and pay dues . I have seen one on craigslist for free once .

[pesce]

I have not fished Cortez yet, but I have fished Desoto, Balboa, Coronado and Grenada and the best so far was Desoto. I must say you have to do your homework finding brush piles and bamboo cribs and also have down and side imaging. The best lake I have fished outside the village is lake Nimrod. This cooler is from DesotoThese two pics are from Nimrod.

[RCC]

There are some real nice rentals in HSV. Some you can rent at a bargain. If you are renting, you can purchase a day use pass so you can use the lakes. I've heard Desoto is a good one to fish, but never tried there.

[NIMROD]

I know they should be good fishing . Never tried them but heard good stories of Bream , Bass , and Catfish . i know some that catch a few Crappie there too .

Afraid it will take Nimrod a year or two to recover from the drawdown this time . It really got hammered this summer . Pesce I may have to visit you in the village on your next trip down to Arkansas , never saw those lakes .

[cache22]

I know they should be good fishing . Never tried them but heard good stories of Bream , Bass , and Catfish . i know some that catch a few Crappie there too .

Afraid it will take Nimrod a year or two to recover from the drawdown this time . It really got hammered this summer . Pesce I may have to visit you in the village on your next trip down to Arkansas , never saw those lakes .

Why do you think this, did the last drawdown hurt?? I thought the drawdown previous to this year's was to improve fishing by allowing more predation to reduce the population of small fish. All the biomass they plant should improve the spawn this year.

[slackline]

Why do you think this, did the last drawdown hurt?? I thought the drawdown previous to this year's was to improve fishing by allowing more predation to reduce the population of small fish. All the biomass they plant should improve the spawn this year.

While the draw down may in fact help the spawn, my experience the last three trips showed small fish only. Fish over 10" were about non existent. The small fish will grow but it will take time.


I know there were many limits of 10"+ fish caught and kept during the draw down. The lack of places for the fish to go made it a slaughter.

Chris

[pesce]

These big cats were caught on lake Coronado. Darwin likes to fish for cats, he lives by Desoto marina.