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You are a funny guy..lol last note on this then you can leave this disaster lake and this thread. no place on earth continues to rise and never sees declines. The big O, Guntersville, Falcon,etc.. It's always a cycle. Some argue environmental changes or situations and some pressure. Ever heard "all good things come to an end"? It happens . But the great thing about Mother Nature is she always rebuilds it. Is it on a decline? Time will tell. Its too early to say that now, much less based on one trip and what some locals say. But it will always come back. i respect your opinions, but your facts need work, too bad you can't admit that. Cheers.

i unsubscribed from him when I read " the lake is 8-10ft low". He was defending himself on another forum. I find it not a coincidence that he comes here to defend himself and yet again spews bad information. If you are going to publicly write about a topic do your work and get the facts straight. Compare with multiple resources. And not just grab the first article you get on google. He put himself in a situation with that article and he knows it. He never before had to come join random forums to defend himself. I have nothing against him. If i'm going to follow a writer I expect him to do his homework. Everyone thinks you can just put your bait in the water and you get a 10lber. You have to work for the fish. the fish adapt, the fisherman needs to follow.

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eat em!!

i have found that bass from different lakes taste different. Not sure why, but the bass here in south la taste great and I hate fishy tasting fish. if that makes any sense. Just eat the small ones and you can't tell a difference from a sacalait, perch, or bass.

i like to use the lightest weight that will get through it. So it could be different every time out.

i think graph choice should be based on maps and maps of the areas you fish most. Thats the reason I went with lowrance. More options of satellite imagery maps for south louisiana. (legend cartography, E-standard mapping chips) For toledo I purchased the navionics premuim south chip. i believe the only satilelite overlay option for mapping on hummingbird is the navionics platinum. Maps chips can get expensive.

follow the highways!! just like them fish.

There are a couple coves towards the front with some grass, but very little in the back of paulo. Honestly if the weather allows try to find some humps in 12-15ft of water close to the main channel swings. Hopefully you can find a couple that has some stumps or some type of cover on it. We fished the grass along the banks hard and it was a grind. Most of the fish caught looked spawned out. Unless the full moon pulls some more up for spawning but just seems like in the majority of the spawning in this area is done.

our annual trip is coming up. So far as I can see the first couple days weather wise looks promising. Lake at full pool which i've fish before. We are going to run our normal spots, but i have a few general questions. Whats the water visibility in paulo? This is where we stay and always put in at least once back there. Been lots of attention to the hay grass this year with the water level, have not heard much about the buck brush though. Its it still a factor? I would expect there still to be some spawners south by the dam, anyone still running across bedding fish? Water is so stained where I fish in my home waters just seeing beds in toledo is pretty amazing to me. Only really had one trip where we stumbled across a small cove with beds everywhere, but i think we were a little late cause only a small portion had fish and were all small males. I finally got a bigger boat this year so even though fish are still spawning I hope to find some action offshore.

poor indian mounds.. sure getting a lot of attention lately. With getting voted #1 lake and all the LA sportsman's articles mapping out where the DD's have been caught it seems to be getting the bulk of the pressure. Wasn't even a few years ago you would have maybe 5 boats at the launch on a weekday.

on that note.. That was the scariest I ever seen that lake on thursday. It was nasty.

a lot of people can catch fish. Its finding the fish that makes you a real fisherman that can adapt on the water. This thread is to do just that. Teach you how to read a map and take that knowledge to the lake. Much more satisfying than having someone else pick a spot for you. just my opinion.

heading up on tuesday, hearing that paulo never cleared up from the rain a couple weeks ago. Any one noticed recently?

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