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