The writer must be from the Midwest....
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The writer must be from the Midwest....
They are both good lakes..Oconee is usually dead in Jan and Feb but March-May is usually a great lake for some big fish...West Point has some good fish also, but I think it is over publicized...It is great for quantity but so-so for quality. I wouldn't give up a trip to Talquin or Crescent for either one tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by Southern Young Gun
It's prolly based on the resorts & best places to stay combined with a somewhat decent lake.
That fine eo me if they leave the good FISHING lakes off the list & keep the tourists elsewhere.
I would pick Crescent, Monroe, Lochloosa, Kissimmee & Tarpon as my top 5 in Florida.
Big O is well overated to what it once was, same for the Harris Chain both were good
once, due believe some of their problems were fishing pressure without size limit and
continued building around the lakes, as well as chemicals being used to control hydrillia. The later being Blue-gill used to be monsters in Kissimmee, past few years,
size is big, but no meat on gills, very skinny..this could be from dispensing of pellets
by air into lake. Gill comes to surface and eat pellets, Crappie spawn before gills and they inturn eat the gill's fry, Hence now spec's are holding size, but weight is dropping same as gills did and they look sickly. (just my opinion) no one from FWC
wants to talk about situation on the "Kissimmee"
raid gill nests.. The Big O was once commercial fished beyond belief for Spec's....
Reelfoot is another lake that has been over rated probably the past 15 years........
Too many fish camps and to much tourist money spent at Sports Shows to convince
people to come fish at Reelfoot.
Hmmm Dream list:Quote:
Whats your top 5 stu?
Grenada, Eufaula, Clarks Hill, Weiss, Arkabutla
Working on plans to get up to Grenada........ wife is coming around ................................I love that woman :)
Im sorry Gurly, ya know I luv ya, but top 20?............. I have a really hard time seeing that unless you take into factor the local support, food , hotels, etc..Quote:
You all TALKING BAD about my backyard
The pasty white Harris fish....almost looks foreign to the state. Maybe something in the water in that chain........ still strange to me :)
PS. I hope ya show the boys this weekend exactly what a stringer of big fat mutant white pasty specks looks like! Get'em CG
I meant Florida but ok, lol. My top 5 in the nation (dream list) would have to be Sardis, Grenada, Santee Cooper, Enid, and Alabama River. Already been to Santee, hopefully gonna mark Sardis and Grenada off this list this fall.......Quote:
Originally Posted by CrapSlabStu
Aren't Sardis, Grenada, and Enid all sort of close to each other?Quote:
Originally Posted by Southern Young Gun
What are your top 5 in Florida?
Ginny
already listed them.........on the first pageQuote:
Originally Posted by Fiishergurl
IMHO
In Florida I think the water levels have dropped so much as to lose flow in places like Kiss., Okee., Harris chain, Apopka, Clermont. And that lessens the spawn and feeding area over all these lakes which means less fish produced. Then there is much more fishing pressure on smaller areas. Just like where I live my Dad as a child caught fish from the roadside ditches. They held water year round. Now we may get standing water once or twice a year.