Any info on Lake Fairfield in Fairfield, TX?

[Tonykarter]

I camped at Fairfield State Park back in early October. Real nice state park too right on the lake. What I noticed though is the lake had almost no boats on it. Anyone have any info on this powerplant lake?

[skiptomylu]

Sorry not me, I just pretty much hang here on Toledo Bend and just don't fish any place else. Also have Sam Rayburn just 25 miles from me.

[Tonykarter]

Me too. Rayburn is 50 minutes from me. it is just too easy to get there. I thought I would try Fairfield, but from what I am reading on some other forums there is a fish kill there every year. Bummer.

[skiptomylu]

Me too. Rayburn is 50 minutes from me. it is just too easy to get there. I thought I would try Fairfield, but from what I am reading on some other forums there is a fish kill there every year. Bummer.

That sucks and probably something that would keep me away from that one. Come over to the Bend sometime, we have some really great water over here and still many many trees under the water and some stumps still standing above water level. Lots of creeks and coves out the kazoo!

[Tracker123]

Skip's right about that.

[Tonykarter]

Come over to the Bend sometime, we have some really great water over here and still many many trees under the water and some stumps still standing above water level. Lots of creeks and coves out the kazoo!

Man, I do love Torpedo Bend. I just love running out of a western bay into the main body of the lake, say out of Six Mile and cutting the throttle and settling into the water. I scan the view from north to south and it just fills me with awe: All that water! All of those bays. Some of them are probably bigger than the majority of other man made lakes in the US. A man could spend a lifetime trying to figure out just one of them. (How the heck you turn off the italics anyway?) Most of my fishing there was accomplished in my youth, back in the 70's when the boat lanes were still well defined by massive stands of flooded timber, back before it started breaking off at the waterline and torpedoing so many unlucky fishermen as the trunks floated slightly under the surface. Back before anyone knew how to spell hydrilla, or knew what it was or how to fish it. Back when it was mostly only a fishing flooded timber thang. Back when everyone's go-to bait was a bait called...wait for it...a Red Fin. Who remembers a Red Fin? Or a Hell Bender! I wish you could have seen it then. You couldn't see the Louisiana side from the Texas side because of the TENS OF thousands of acres of flooded river bottom forests they left untouched when they inundated it. Listen, I use to idle along side some of the tree lines out in the middle of the lake in 40-50 feet of water...and the standing timber could still be as high as 60-70 feet above the water! HUNDREDS of thousands of them! Those were gigantic old growth trees, possibly virgin timber in their size. Forty to fifty foot off the bottom, and still MASSIVE girth around the trunks of a great many of the trees AT THE WATER LINE, so big two men probably could not have reach around them...and that at 40-50 feet off the bottom! I would have loved to have had the opportunity to walk and hunt those river bottoms before they flooded it, love to have seen if my old full choke sweet 16 would drop a squirrel from the top of one of those. Most probably not! I know most of Rayburn's bottom topography below the 147 bridge like the back of my hand...little mystery left for me there. Pretty bored actually. But the Bend? I get giddy thinking about what secrets that lake still holds. It is my Holy Grail. I would love to come over there and fish with y'all. Torpedo Bend is a bucket list thing for me...to spend the greater part of my retirement fishing it and figuring it out until I get too old to fish. I'll load the boat with camping and fishing gear, and just head out for a couple of weeks, living like a lake vagabond, primitive stealth camping after the evening bite, hit a strategic store or two beside the lake to fill up the gas tank and a burger and resupply/re-ice every couple of days. Little Honda inverter generator to recharge the trolling motor batteries. Not shave or cut my hair and scare little kids as I fish past their back yards, channeling visions of Tull's Aqualung here, or Bigfoot. Just fish and side scan my way from the back of one bay to the next, taking the time to smell the roses and enjoy what I was in too big of a hurry to notice back in my adrenaline-filled youth. Start as Six Mile and work counter clockwise around the lake, north, up the Texas side, then south down the LA side, and then back up the Texas side to Six Mile until I have covered every cove in the lake. (Question: Hope I ain't bitin' off too much here...Just how many miles of shoreline does the Bend have anyway?) What a wonderful place for an old man to play Huck Finn. What a wonderful retirement goal. Toledo Bend is nirvana. It will take many trips to complete, to do it slow and do it right, but IT SHALL come to pass, God as my witness.

[chucktx]

Toledo bend has 1200 miles of shore line.....+/-.........

[Tonykarter]

Well, that's sobering. 1200 miles of shoreline huh? That certainly cast a pall on the festivities...

[Tracker123]

Duplicate post - sorry.

[Tracker123]

One of the reasons why I love that lake. There are many times I am fishing alone in the back of some creek there. I am not into crowds like some lakes have. Come join us at the Toledo Bend gathering the last weekend of February.