Theory

[bird down]

Would like to hear everyone's on why butla is not producing. I have given mine and got bashed. Mcc weighs and Cc weighs less than 2 fish per boat! Mcc had it tough I will give them that. Besides the two tournaments I have not heard anything as for reports. Grass, grass, grass, is no theory either. All the lakes has the grass and the others have produced. Lets hear it.

[DonDon]

Called lake rape last fall

[ATM]

Handicrappie raped the lake and hauled them all back to Arkansas.

[Big H trucking]

Handicrappie raped the lake and hauled them all back to Arkansas.

This is true but boy I have made some money from his permit fees.

[BigRiverMarine]

High water on top of the Coffee Bean weeds!!!!! The fish are buried in the coffee beans, and you can't troll em outta there. The coffee bean isn't as bad at other lakes because they don't fluctuate like Butla.

Oh yeah, lake rape last summer.

[ducker]

I pushed right through all that grass! Can't be scurred!

[slabin]

We have depleted the resource just like we did the buffalo, We have over fished the lake singlepolers and trollers both hopefully the state of mississippi can see this and do something about it, But nobody will admit it your going to hear a hundred different excuses like low water, bad spawn etc etc but the real problem is the lake getting hammered year after year.

[Rees Guide]

gButla is one of the hardest lakes to fish under "normal" conditions, has been for 40 years that I know of. Why do you think Feelay carries his clients to Sardis?? Its a easier lake, period. All 4 of the Big 4 go through cycles with Butla and Grenada seeming top be the tuffer of the 2 lakes. Glad to see the grass myself, gonna help all the lakes. Willing to bet the fall fishing will be good and maybe even some summer fishing as the grass starts to sour.

[Release to the Grease...]

The fish are there, you just can't find them when it's 10' over summer pool. If it comes back down to 220 or so over the summer the fish will miraculously reappear. This year was much colder and much higher water than last year. March set an all time record last year and summer pretty much started by mid to late April, not to mention the lake never got any water in it so the fish had nowhere to hide and really nowhere to spawn either. The result was a lot of fish caught all summer last year, and probably a poor spawn that we'll see the effects of in 3 years. Was it fished out? No way, because for several years prior to last year you had great spawns and high water, more similar to this year. Those high water conditions are good for the fish but bad for the fisherman. Remember a couple of years ago how people were complaining about all of the short fish in Butla? About how the 12" rule was filling the lake w dinks? Those were the fish that grew up and made the fishing great last summer when we could actually get to them.

I haven't fished it this year, were the fish caught this w/end full of eggs still?

[feelay]

Plenty of fish still there, just too much water and weeds. All y'all chicken little's need to relax.