Any bass reports out there? i was told they have been spraying the grass down there and killing it off.. Any info??
I don't have any info, but planning to go later in the week and will post what I find. Fishing around grass was the only place we could catch any on the 2 trips we went last year. I can't imagine what good reason they could have for spraying it. The shallow sloughs that have the grass are worthless for any other sort of recreation. Makes no sense to kill it and ruin the fishing; they will just become shallow mudholes.
I said I would report back, but this isn't much of a report. My uncle bought a boat 5 weeks ago and then fell off a ladder and broke his arm before ever getting to take it fishing. I went down there and we went yesterday, mainly just to try the boat. We put in at Bridgeport at 9 am and fished until 3, and caught only 2 fish. We only went a few miles up the river, and all the water we found was either muddy or stained. The only place we caught anything at all was one little stretch of water that wasn't stained as much as the rest. I had a couple of 3 to 4 pound fish on and managed to lose both of them.
I wouldn't let our results worry me; it wasn't a very serious trip and we fished the worst time of the day. If I were gonna fish again tomorrow, I would get further back into some of the bigger creeks and look for clearer water.
