thanks.

A little update. I think I'll still try to stock some redears this year. It looks to late for them to spawn this year though but giving them time to grow some before next year doesn't sound like to bad of an idea. I found 4"-6" redears but that might not be big enough even for this lake. I decided that starting to fertilize is a no go. I don't know if I could keep it up year after year.

Lately I looked at the record I had last updated in June 2004 and the bass were on average in length 10.048", average girth 6.053", average weight 0.54lbs, and had a relative weight of 92.1%. Out of 50 bass for that year. I had stopped keeping record in june so I don't have any details on the fish I caught for the rest of the summer and all of fall. Up till then I had recorded catching 130 bass 98% of them were equally divided between those under 10" and those 10"-12.5" while only 2 were 13" or more the 7.5 pounder included. Out of that I had only caught 6-8 warmouth maybe 3-4 bluegill.

This year I've already managed to catch close to 30 bass most of which I've tossed. I'll have to restart the record keeping to see if there is any difference. I hooked a 13" bass awhile ago and caught one that had a bigger mouth and eyes than it should have had for an 11" bass. For the most part fishing has been about the same except I've been at the lake more so than last spring so I've been catching more than last spring. The fish(bass at least) were on beds in late march but most of them abandoned them after a couple of cold rains.

I'm thinking I need to get some worms and do some bluegill fishing. I don't know about the other people that fish the lake but I haven't seen a bluegill over 3" in months. I don't have much of an idea how they're doing lately and I've only seen a few at all ever come out of the lake. All I know is I see tons of bass, I fish for tons of bass, and I catch tons bass.

-Allch Chcar
Living the dream, 21 acres. No pond, yet.