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Originally Posted by homerun
After seeing a really good summer on numbers of fish this summer. Makes me believe climate has more to do with lack of shrimp/fish than anything else. We had a really cold winter that delayed shrimp showing up and ended up with more shrimp/specks in lake in a long time. If i remember correctly we used to always have really cold winters when the fishing was good all summer 20 -30 years years ago. Cold winters and hurricanes means good shrimp/speck catches. Just Saying!
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Fishing the last month and a half or so has been good, but it is no more than average for this time of year. However, if you take the last 18 months as a whole, fishing has been poor poor poor. Now I am not blaming the weirs, but when they are shut for long periods of time, it without a doubt effects the migration of shrimp and baitfish from the marsh into the lake.
You speak of fishing being good years ago, if you were at the meeting a couple weeks ago there was a bar graph that showed how many days a year the weirs were open, and they were open more often back then. Yes the winters were cold and wet back then as well, but the fishing during the spring was usually fantastic, with many many big fish being caught. This year, complete opposite of that. Do the weirs being closed directly correlate to bad fishing? Who knows, but it is well worth noting.
I'm over the weir argument, as I believe there are two other bigger issues.