Thread: Lookin at Butla

Originally Posted by mississippi

mdwfp...............last paragraph. Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks also states that trolling is starting to pick up.

Thanks mississippi but i was looking for a better source. Ive read this one and its from 2012 during the time of the Trolling Rape of Arkabutla. Guess will have to wait until the fall numbers of 2013 to see if the damage is as bad as predicted.

Originally Posted by bird down

I will bite on this and try to give my opinion. I think the lake absolutely got pounded last summer by fisherman. I also think a good many fish died when the water got so low. I could smell them from the mud hole off of interstate 55. It may have been land locked at the time but that is the same fish that swim in butla. I think a lot of fish went through the spillway due to extremely low water. With that what is left? I honestly believe there is only 15 percent of the crappie population compared to the prior year. You take all that and then give them a place to hide and there you go. Fishing sux. Btw handi, the year you spoke of that water was so high I actually did really well. This year I have only been 4 times, in prime conditions, and caught one fish.

That same year was my best one ever at Butla. That's why I was not initially discouraged with the high water levels. But like you, I've been 4 or 5 times this year and caught 2 crappie.