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How does the release of water on lakes effect the fishing ? I fish a lake that is usually at a constant level except when we have heavy rains. After heavy rains they keep the level of the lake I fish constant but they will generate around the clock trying to keep areas above and below me from flooding. Any suggestions on fishing while they are generating.
40 years ago all that cold water would move the bass and crappie up into the Big Mazarn. Stokes creek and Bull Bayou I don't recall any effect.
Yeah I'm guessing he's talking about Hamelton which for the most part stays constant with very little rise I noticed while living over there. Now other lakes like Dequeen, Gillham, and Deirks where I grew up and am now it sucks to have falling water. I fished Gillham other day which was about normal after a big rise they'd sucked her back down and it had leveled out. We had 14 crappie that morning and my buddy had to leave early so I hit Dequeen which was about 5' tall and falling fast....I never caught a fish and I talked to an Old man who crappie fishes everyday who said they hadn't either and they wasn't biting. We fished a bass tournament Memorial Day weekend and the day before caught 2 bass that was 6+ in less than 2hr fishing, they put the suck on her that next day, day of the tournament and we barely caught anything! I fished a short bass tournament on Dequeen last night and falling water almost skunked us so you can imagine my thoughts on falling water. I'm nearly 40yr old and I know guys in their 60's and 70's who don't have an answer for falling water, it's not a good thing!