Cecil,
We have been in a draught for the past ten years in Las Vegas, Lake Mead was down about 80 feet. We have finally got an enormous amount of rain the past several months and the lake is back on the rise, about ten feet. My main fishery here, Lake Mead is gin clear with the visibility often to twenty plus feet on a calm day. Other fisheries in the area are mainly trout waters but one has had bass mysteriously introduced to it and is taking off like wildfire. This lake I'm talking about has a healthy population of crawfish which the bass love to gobble up. My concern is that the lake was managed for brown and rainbow trout and the rangers say the bass are not supposed to be in there. But it seems suspicious that all of the bass I caught are in the same year class, similar sizes. my guess is they must have been stocked on accident?!
We do have a long growing season here in Las Vegas. In washington where my pond is located it is in agricultural number 8a or 8b which seems similar to some of Texas. Does this number correlate to the length of the growing season or is it just a temperature range thing?
P.S. there is a picture of my pond on the pic post page at on this site. Page four of pictures, right side, second from bottom. If you are interested.
