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[Champ188]

4 hours ago, Seth said:

LoZ gets hit harder than TRL and it still produces way more big bass than TRL. What's the difference besides LoZ has way more docks? Do all those docks really protect that many big bass?

LOZ's water is more fertile. More nutrients, more baitfish, and so on ...

[Seth]

So what makes LoZ more fertile? What exactly does that even mean? The point @fishinwrench made about the big boats keeping a lot of the fishing pressure reduced for half the year sounds the most plausible to me. Truman gives up some nice fish but it still doesn't seem to compare to LoZ overall which also makes me think that wrenches reasonings hold the most water.

[Dutch]

26 minutes ago, Seth said:

So what makes LoZ more fertile? 

Fertilizer makes things more fertile.  Thousands of septic tanks.

[Seth]

So crap makes a fishery better? I figured that would do more harm than good.

[fishinwrench]

26 minutes ago, Seth said:

So crap makes a fishery better? I figured that would do more harm than good.

I'm no biologist (🙄) but septic leakage is heavy and collects along the bottom.   Surface runoff from fertilized lawns might contribute to surface plankton blooms, but only during heavy rain periods. 

Deep structure fishermen have this mental image of clean rocky bottoms.... but that truly doesn't exist on LO below 15-18ft.    The floor of this lake, at depths unaffected by wave action, is buried under a thick accumulation of silty sludge.   Imagine a landscape after a heavy drifting snowstorm and THAT is what it resembles down there.   Even though your electronics might show a distinguishable rocky bottom with abrupt dropoffs, you can be assured that your 1oz. football jig is POOFING ALONG through a foot or more of accumulated snot.  

[jdmidwest]

17 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I'm no biologist (🙄) but septic leakage is heavy and collects along the bottom.   Surface runoff from fertilized lawns might contribute to surface plankton blooms, but only during heavy rain periods. 

Deep structure fishermen have this mental image of clean rocky bottoms.... but that truly doesn't exist on LO below 15-18ft.    The floor of this lake, at depths unaffected by wave action, is buried under a thick accumulation of silty sludge.   Imagine a landscape after a heavy drifting snowstorm and THAT is what it resembles down there.   Even though your electronics might show a distinguishable rocky bottom with abrupt dropoffs, you can be assured that your 1oz. football jig is POOFING ALONG through a foot or more of accumulated snot.  

Only you could paint a picture of crap and make it a snowstorm.

I have a septic tank, the sludge collects at the bottom and you pay a guy to pump out the solid parts.  The nitrogen and ammonia comes off the top into the leech field.  Unless you guys straight pipe it over there.

[snagged in outlet 3]

24 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I'm no biologist (🙄)

😂😂😂.  Stop it I just ate dinner😂

[fishinwrench]

13 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

Only you could paint a picture of crap and make it a snowstorm

😂🤣😅

[jdmidwest]

Crappie seem to like the septic sludge.

Hmmm.  Crap Pie.  I see a connection.

[Smalliebigs]

On 11/22/2021 at 7:50 PM, waterpossum said:

I live on Stockton and there's not as much fishing pressure as TR. That said there are still too many tournaments on this lake. There is an occasional 7-8 lb fish, but that is rare. Probably by the time a bass has reached 3 lbs it's been for several boat rides. IMO stressed fish aren't going to reach any size before natural mortality. If there were any substantial numbers of 5 lb fish, then 25 lb limits would be weighed. 

 

 

Agreed