03-29-2008, 02:56 PM
Well, the info you ask for was in that post you deleted the link to. [cool]
FYI, that's a blog, not a forum. But anyway, the lake is suffering from a loss of vegetation. The lake may be 450,000 acres, but honestly only about 75,000 acres is really good fishing due to that being where the vegetation is. When the lake is at elevated levels, the water encroaches on even more vegetation, making it great for bass fishing.
Unfortunately right now, the lake is at about 4 feet below the average. So we are well below the median water line, meaning much less vegetation than even the average, and the vegetation that would normally be there is dying off largely in part due to the phospherous in the lake sediment from runoff. The water management districts are working to get the pollution under control, but we'd still need a few good years of weather conditions for the vegetation to really make a positive comeback.
More later...
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FYI, that's a blog, not a forum. But anyway, the lake is suffering from a loss of vegetation. The lake may be 450,000 acres, but honestly only about 75,000 acres is really good fishing due to that being where the vegetation is. When the lake is at elevated levels, the water encroaches on even more vegetation, making it great for bass fishing.
Unfortunately right now, the lake is at about 4 feet below the average. So we are well below the median water line, meaning much less vegetation than even the average, and the vegetation that would normally be there is dying off largely in part due to the phospherous in the lake sediment from runoff. The water management districts are working to get the pollution under control, but we'd still need a few good years of weather conditions for the vegetation to really make a positive comeback.
More later...
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