| I do not know a lot about the other lakes in Georgia | | | | Have you ever tried the main lake? There are some |
| except what I read. He fishes most of the lakes in | | | | places along the left shore, facing up the Flint, that |
| Georgia in his tournaments. From what I read most | | | | have some good places for topwaters. Up around |
| of the lakes north of here have become overrun by | | | | the islands there are some places where holes in the |
| spotted bass. He seldom catches one over 3lbs. | | | | flats contain some good places. Also up the Flint the |
| I have fished Ray's lake only a couple of times and | | | | channel twists and turns with flats on both sides that |
| have caught some small bass but those pads on the | | | | produce on top. |
| north end should hold some big bass and I am sure | | | | The Chatahoochee side also has some good places |
| they have in the past. The carp you see are the | | | | upstream on the right is a marked channel, you have |
| white amour carp put into that area by the "DNR" to | | | | to look close to see it, that leads through hundreds |
| try and control weeds. The only result is that they | | | | of acres of pads. I have caught some bass there. I |
| have controlled the bass. The gates do, I am certain | | | | seldom go there because it is such a long run for me |
| keep migrating bass out of the area as well as | | | | but much closer via the Fish Pond Drain. By the way |
| supposedly keeping the carp in. I hope, for the sake | | | | Ronnie caught some fair fish in the pads at the lower |
| of the rest of the lake that they are successful in | | | | end of Fish Pond Drain in a recent tournament, but |
| containing the carp. | | | | no really big ones. |
| Spring Creek used to be some of the best bass | | | | I believe that the lake is coming back now that the |
| fishing in the nation. I used to catch 5-8 lb bass quite | | | | hydrilla is coming back. Now if the state will just keep |
| often and a limit of ten fish was not unusual. | | | | hands off and let nature take it's way it will be a |
| However in 1999 the DNR put a drip system at the | | | | great bass lake again. One more thing I can tell you is |
| bridge where SR253 crosses Spring Creek. This | | | | that the flats on Spring Creek have never been that |
| chemical was to kill off the hydrilla that covered | | | | productive for me. The creek channel and the stump |
| about 85% of the Spring Creek arm. The result was | | | | fields on either side have produced most of my bass |
| a complete success. It killed almost all of the hydrilla, | | | | over the years. I have caught a few small ones on |
| but with the hydrilla went the fish and I mean almost | | | | the flats but the bigger ones have come from the |
| all of them. We used to have hydrilla around our dock | | | | creek channel areas. |
| and each spring the brim and shellcrackers bedded | | | | Also almost all of my topwater fishing has taken |
| around the dock. | | | | place from the time the sun gets to the treetops |
| The year 2000 we had hundreds of big crackers and | | | | until dark and sometimes even after dark. I caught |
| brim. A year later there were was nothing. I see a | | | | my biggest bass ever, just over 9lbs, about 11 pm |
| few around my dock now and people up and down | | | | one moonless night on a muskie jitterbug. I cast back |
| the shoreline are catching them. I did not feed them | | | | to the same hole in the hydrilla and caught one just |
| this year to attract them so I do not know if that is | | | | under 9lbs. Of course I have gone fishless on many |
| the reason I do not have many. | | | | evenings and nights too but then that is bass fishing. |
| I fished Spring Creek regularly in '02through '05 with | | | | Now after telling you that I still believe this lake has a |
| little luck. Last year I began to catch a few nice bass | | | | lot of good fishing but I also know that when your |
| again but both my boat and my health gave me | | | | friends give up and don't come back it is difficult. |
| problems since then and have not been able to fish | | | | Maybe you should talk to them and see if they have |
| this year like I usually did. I have heard reports that | | | | had better success elsewhere if they are still fishing. |
| the bass have returned to Spring creek. I hope so | | | | If they have had success perhaps you might give |
| but can't prove it. | | | | their place a try but maybe come back in some |
| I am hoping to get my boat back in the water | | | | future vacation. |
| tomorrow and get to fishing again regularly. I wish I | | | | Also maybe you could give me a follow up in a few |
| could tell you that Lake Seminole is anything like it | | | | months and see if I have had more success since my |
| was in the late 90s but that would be false. I do | | | | health problem is now in check and my boat ready |
| believe, however that there are still lots of big | | | | for the water. I hate to see people give up on the |
| fighting bass but not in Fish Pond Drain area because | | | | lake but I also see reasons for it in recent years |
| of the carp. | | | | largely due to errors by the State. |