If you want to catch some big enough to keep, might better go someplace else.:D Couldn't find any with any size, they may be there but we couldn't find them.
If you want to catch some big enough to keep, might better go someplace else.:D Couldn't find any with any size, they may be there but we couldn't find them.
They not only on the bank they all over that lake in that size.
When I drive by I just look out across the lake and think what it used to be like and keep going to another wet hole.
How long ago was "used to be like"?
in the early 70's. i started fishing it when the timber was still green but i fished only for bass. it was something else back then. back then i lived in the bootheel and it was an hour and a half drive each way. if i knew i could get in 2 hours fishing i would make that 3 hour drive it was that good. but poinsett lake was hot when it was new too but i never fished it back then. lake charles kept pulling at my heart strings. now i'm like turtle. i pass it on my way to somewhere else.
now i live within a few miles of it and never fish it now.
Maybe they need to put some hybrids in there like they did horseshoe, it sure seemed to make a difference in the quality at the shoe.
i think they put some hybrids in once. the fishing had slowed by then that i had started fishing another lake. and you are right about needing some now it looks like.
The 10" min. didn't work.
I've always wondered if drawing the lake down to flood the woods in Raney Brake had anything to do with the size of the fish.
I can't believe there was a 10" limit there untill a few years ago. That's a good example of needing to thin out the herd.Quote:
Originally Posted by creekslick
I bought 2 lots on the back side of charles back years ago thinking I would build a house,at the time you couldn't ask for a better lake to fish.Now you'd haveta talk pretty hard to get me to unload there,catching zillions 4in. crappie all day is tireing with nothing in the cooler.
I don't think the draw down hurts it any,catfish get fatter,if we're lucky the draw down doesn't last long with a wet winter.
The creek channel has felled in,the old barn is gone,bridges have floated off,you can still see the old hwy with the draw down.I think 2 weekends ago when I went by you couldn't find a parking spot it was full of empty boat trailers.
I blame game and fish,we're more interested in hunters in my area than they are fisherman.The problem is been let go to long,it would take years to bring it back now.