Sorry, it took me a while to get back into the forum, but thanks for all the information, advice, and the picture of that humongous Bass eater.
The lake is pretty much at a constant level, with a creek feeding into it. I'm lucky in that the lot I fish from is in the section, near the damn, where I can reach both shallow and the deeper water.
The creek isn't fast flowing, but there is definitely a water turn-over rate to take note of if I can talk the other residents into liming and fertilizing this East Texas lake.
The lake is about 30 years old. I've been fishing it since last september, as often as possible and still keep my job and fiancee. The largest Bass I've caught was about 1.5 pounds and real skinny. Lots of little Bass and Bluegills, but also Crappie. Only caught one Redear Sunfish, but I will add more. Unfortunately, I have also caught huge red-ear turtles, BullHeads, Goggle-eyes, and Long-ear Sunfish. I hooked something that snapped a 20 pound test line, like it was nothing, when I tried to stop it from going under a fallen tree. From rumors I hear, I suspect it was a big Flathead.
I just added 78 Xmas trees, upright of course, around a fallen tree, under, and around one side of the pier I fish. I'm already enjoying seeing little fish come out of the sunken trees to feed on bread. Caught 3 small Bass from the pier a wekk after the trees were sunk. Had caught none off the pier in the previous 5 months.
From what I am reading it sounds like y'all are recommending the CCs, but the lake isn't deep enough for the Blues? I'll just keep count of the CCs I remove and add more when I get down to about half of what I put in.
Luckily, I found Todd Overton's web site. He's not a fountain of good information. He's a huge river of it and has pointed me to many very good information resources. I'm sure glad he's honest and gives it to me straight, when I try to do something amateurish like adding fingerling CCs that would mostly just get eaten, by an existing population of predator fish.
As a matter of fact, Todd pointed me to this forum. I think he had more important things to do, than answer my million questions. I look forward to reading, asking questions, and learning from you all.
--Kevin
