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Re: Lake victor
[Re: Droptine-13]
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04/20/21 02:20 PM
04/20/21 02:20 PM
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It's still got some big fish in it but nothing like it used to have. 95% of the big bass in Victor are caught during the spawn. There a group of us that fish it and all these other panhandle lakes in the spring and we release every big female that we catch. But Victor, like all of the other lakes in the panhandle, now have a pile of people fishing them, that if they do manage to catch an 8-12lb fish, they are tossing it in a cooler and heading home to brag about it. Taking these genetically superior fish out year after year has been hugely detrimental to all of the panhandle lakes for the last 20-30 yrs. Everyone wants to "skin mount" one for the wall. Leon Brooks Hinds just across the Bama line about 10 miles north of Hurricane Lake is the same way. Back in the early 2000's, that place was loaded and for a 4-5 yr period was probably one of the best lakes I've ever fished for big fish. Now days, you can walk from boat to boat across that lake in the spring and the fishing quality reflects it. All these lakes used to give up a ton of big fish in the 10-17lb class and occasionally bigger back in the 80's, 90's and early 2000's, but there has been a huge decline in the big fish populations in all these lakes, especially in the past 10 yrs as the pressure just continues to increase. You have to actually work to catch a 10+ fish anywhere in the panhandle now days. I went from catching literally dozens of fish in 8-12lb or bigger class every spring to now catching just six to eight a year in that same size class. I, as well as several other guys quit guiding in the early 90's because we realized that when you added up all the fish our clients were taking home, even though we were turning loose every big one we ourselves caught, we were damaging the big fish populations in all these lakes. Peach will probably chime in and give his two cents but he'll just tell you the same thing.
Last edited by abolt300; 04/20/21 02:26 PM.
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