On 10/17/2020 at 11:07 AM, Catt said:

 

I know he's from Dallas, not sure if he's a Aggie or Horns fan.

 

After being voted the #1 lake two yrs in a row it suffered drastic changes since then.

 

The lake level reached historic lows, then historic flooding, & spraying for Gaint Salvinia. As a result the lake lost all the grass it was famous for.

 

Many anglers believed the loss of grass caused a fish kill but zero evidence supports this.

 

Many anglers believe after being #1 for two yrs in a row brought so many anglers the lake fished out. Surveys show the fish are still there.

 

Many of us older anglers believe lakes success rates fuluate yearly. And with the lack of grass the bass adapted but the anglers haven't!

 

This research will shed some light on what happened.

exactly catt. guys are probably fishing where the fish used to be. we see the same thing around here. hopefully the grass comes back.

I did that for almost a year back in the early 90's on several large bass.  Back then the transmitter was a glass tube and not super small, so you had to make a small incision in their belly to insert it and put a stitch or two in close if back up.  I lost all six of my transmitters.  Never caught but one fish a second time again and the others, either the transmitter died or someone else caught them.  Got too expensive to keep doing it.

10 hours ago, Way2slow said:

I did that for almost a year back in the early 90's on several large bass.  Back then the transmitter was a glass tube and not super small, so you had to make a small incision in their belly to insert it and put a stitch or two in close if back up.  I lost all six of my transmitters.  Never caught but one fish a second time again and the others, either the transmitter died or someone else caught them.  Got too expensive to keep doing it.

Learn anything interesting before they were gone?

Infection & death ?  Larger fish picks up scent or infection trail.  

Any more marine biologists toys to surgically insert?

What's that old saying "there's one in every crowd"

One other note, a marine biologist owned the equipment and was helping me do that..

 

Yes, they taught me a whole lot about their habits in that body of water that I didn't realize or know.  I would have loved to have kept it going but a friend had the equipment they used for salt water research but they used different transmitters.  Transmitters were not cheap, and just buying six of those `was all I was willing to go out of pocket on.  If I had to have bought the tracking equipment also, it never would have happened.