Hey Rowly, We talked about a year ago about the simmilarities of our lakes. If you recall when I bought the place the water was crystal clear and had a ton of coontail as deep as 15 feet! I was told from the previous owner that it was spring fed. Well, there may be a spring or two in there but the culprit to the clear water was a neighbor that was putting copper sulphate in there to kill the coon tail. As soon as I heard that, we had a talk and he saw things my way, it's my lake not his! This spring I've got a beautiful bloom, 15-18" and the lmb are showing relitive weights of better than 90%. The coontail is receading and I'm one happy camper. The big bass biomass is super, thats what I'm after. We've taken over 100 crappie out this past spring and and added 300 adult b-gill and 500 res. All bass over 15" are fat as can be and I've finally convinced myself to remove SOME smaller bass, got alot of them. Surface water temp. is 84.2f as of sun. We hand feed the b-gill and cats every night, see a few carp(not grass) from time to time also feeding. My b-gill, last year were still spawning in sept. if you can believe that. And From the looks of it the bass spawn was real good too, lots of fry all over the lake. Feel free to E-mail me if there's anything else you want to know.
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