Originally Posted By: Al Davison
Teeh - yep! We've got REM and quite a few more in town - this is a music town and a pretty cool place. We've also got the University of Georgia here. My wife is actually the Mayor of Athens. Come visit!

Well, the LMB fishing has been poor in my pond since about June and we've fished every cubic inch of water with every kind of bait you can imagine. Every kind of plastic you've ever heard of and live baits like shiners, baby BG, varieties of worms, crickets, etc. deep and shallow, fast and slow, and on-and-on.... ;\)

It ain't like we don't know how to fish - we've been catchin' 'em in other ponds and lakes. But, nobody has really been catchin' a ton of fish in Georgia this year. We went from a 3-year drought to El Nino flooding this year.

So, like I said...I'm not panicking. Just running a theory past you guys to see what you think.

Thanks for all the responses! More are welcome!



Well, good to know I can drop a name if I ever find myself getting roughed up in Athens! What a trip - you are the first first husband I've ever met.

Thinking out loud here:

Lots of rain = lots of flooded vegetation/structure = lots of spawing habitat for GSH and plenty of structure for your other fish to settle in...making them a little less accessible to angling?

Lots of GSH = less LMB appetite

The rain is a blessing to my friends in the SE - I'm glad you finally broke the drought. Natural cycle of your BOW - now the fish will grow hefty and you'll pull off some big spawns. This is just my two cents...

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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