I was just curious...

I have heard many people say that the lake George Perry caught his world record is now just a swampy backwater, but I was curious if anyone has visited this area personally, and especially if there are any pictures of it.  I was reading up on it and it roused my interest.  I wonder how big the lake was when he caught it?

Thanks!

TF

This is all that's left. It is an old Oxbow of the Ocmulgee River.

Cool.  I can make out the image of where the lake/pond once was.

That is pretty cool being able to see Lake Montgomery now-a-days.  Seeing it as a lake which is so aged and almost gone only adds to the mystery of the World Record Largemouth Bass.  Its also cool that it is an Oxbow, because it makes it seem like everything that was trapped inside it was trapped from the rest of the world............i dont know what im talking about.......its just pretty cool.

Anyone from Georgia fish the Ocmulgee or it's oxbows these days? I wonder what the fishing is like there now?

I posted in a thread not too long ago about the largest bass ever documented with a picture of what Montgomery Lake looked like sometime recently.  It looked more or less like a pond, very narrow and not very long and also not very deep..but very bassy looking.

Awesome...I wish I could see that thread.

theres the pic.

I fished Lake Montgomery back in the early 70,s around 1972 and it was much bigger then. In an old wooden boat that me and a guy who's name was Red had fished it for about a week. Red was about 75 years old then and only used a knuckle buster with dacron and a steel casting rod. I used a cane pole he made for me. (broomstick thick and 12 feet long) to shake scupernoil Creme worms in the holes around the trees. I can still smell those strawberry flavored worms. We kept every fish for him to eat regardless of size. Some where about 6 pounds.

Oh the memory's

Capt Mike

Good story, Mike!

I live about 60-75(?) miles from Montgomery Lake but I've never been down there.  My neighbor fishes the Ocmulgee once in a while but we're 'nawth' of Montgomery Lake.  He's caught some nice Bass from it.

More about the Ocmulgee.

Dan

Great pic kendammit28.reminds me of some hatchie river oxbows I fish here in Tennessee.

Thanks for the pic, Ken!  It looks like it would have been a good lake.  I wonder how many big fish such as that 22 lber there were back then in that area?  It keeps me wondering what the sizes for the average fish around there were back then.