| I do not know a lot about the other lakes in | | | | |
| Georgia except what I read. He fishes most of | | | | Have you ever tried the main lake? There are |
| the lakes in Georgia in his tournaments. From | | | | some places along the left shore, facing up |
| what I read most of the lakes north of here | | | | the Flint, that have some good places for |
| have become overrun by spotted bass. He | | | | topwaters. Up around the islands there are |
| seldom catches one over 3lbs. | | | | some places where holes in the flats contain |
| | | | some good places. Also up the Flint the |
| I have fished Ray's lake only a couple of | | | | channel twists and turns with flats on both |
| times and have caught some small bass but | | | | sides that produce on top. |
| those pads on the north end should hold some | | | | |
| big bass and I am sure they have in the past. | | | | The Chatahoochee side also has some good |
| The carp you see are the white amour carp put | | | | places upstream on the right is a marked |
| into that area by the "DNR" to try and | | | | channel, you have to look close to see it, |
| control weeds. The only result is that they | | | | that leads through hundreds of acres of pads. |
| have controlled the bass. The gates do, I am | | | | I have caught some bass there. I seldom go |
| certain keep migrating bass out of the area | | | | there because it is such a long run for me |
| as well as supposedly keeping the carp in. I | | | | but much closer via the Fish Pond Drain. By |
| hope, for the sake of the rest of the lake | | | | the way Ronnie caught some fair fish in the |
| that they are successful in containing the | | | | pads at the lower end of Fish Pond Drain in a |
| carp. | | | | recent tournament, but no really big ones. |
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| Spring Creek used to be some of the best bass | | | | I believe that the lake is coming back now |
| fishing in the nation. I used to catch 5-8 lb | | | | that the hydrilla is coming back. Now if the |
| bass quite often and a limit of ten fish was | | | | state will just keep hands off and let nature |
| not unusual. However in 1999 the DNR put a | | | | take it's way it will be a great bass lake |
| drip system at the bridge where SR253 crosses | | | | again. One more thing I can tell you is that |
| Spring Creek. This chemical was to kill off | | | | the flats on Spring Creek have never been |
| the hydrilla that covered about 85% of the | | | | that productive for me. The creek channel and |
| Spring Creek arm. The result was a complete | | | | the stump fields on either side have produced |
| success. It killed almost all of the | | | | most of my bass over the years. I have caught |
| hydrilla, but with the hydrilla went the fish | | | | a few small ones on the flats but the bigger |
| and I mean almost all of them. We used to | | | | ones have come from the creek channel areas. |
| have hydrilla around our dock and each spring | | | | |
| the brim and shellcrackers bedded around the | | | | Also almost all of my topwater fishing has |
| dock. | | | | taken place from the time the sun gets to the |
| | | | treetops until dark and sometimes even after |
| The year 2000 we had hundreds of big crackers | | | | dark. I caught my biggest bass ever, just |
| and brim. A year later there were was | | | | over 9lbs, about 11 pm one moonless night on |
| nothing. I see a few around my dock now and | | | | a muskie jitterbug. I cast back to the same |
| people up and down the shoreline are catching | | | | hole in the hydrilla and caught one just |
| them. I did not feed them this year to | | | | under 9lbs. Of course I have gone fishless on |
| attract them so I do not know if that is the | | | | many evenings and nights too but then that is |
| reason I do not have many. | | | | bass fishing. |
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| I fished Spring Creek regularly in '02through | | | | Now after telling you that I still believe |
| '05 with little luck. Last year I began to | | | | this lake has a lot of good fishing but I |
| catch a few nice bass again but both my boat | | | | also know that when your friends give up and |
| and my health gave me problems since then and | | | | don't come back it is difficult. Maybe you |
| have not been able to fish this year like I | | | | should talk to them and see if they have had |
| usually did. I have heard reports that the | | | | better success elsewhere if they are still |
| bass have returned to Spring creek. I hope so | | | | fishing. If they have had success perhaps you |
| but can't prove it. | | | | might give their place a try but maybe come |
| | | | back in some future vacation. |
| I am hoping to get my boat back in the water | | | | |
| tomorrow and get to fishing again regularly. | | | | Also maybe you could give me a follow up in a |
| I wish I could tell you that Lake Seminole is | | | | few months and see if I have had more success |
| anything like it was in the late 90s but that | | | | since my health problem is now in check and |
| would be false. I do believe, however that | | | | my boat ready for the water. I hate to see |
| there are still lots of big fighting bass but | | | | people give up on the lake but I also see |
| not in Fish Pond Drain area because of the | | | | reasons for it in recent years largely due to |
| carp. | | | | errors by the State. |