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Originally Posted by sharphook

If possible put out some fertilizer for fish waters starting when water temperature is 60 degrees!!

This only for small lakes or ponds

Originally Posted by sharphook

Pea gravel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Place on hard most accessible bottom!!!

Good for spawning beds . Brush or other cover good for young fish .

Originally Posted by Andrews

We will be putting in new gravel beds and sand bed areas

Mud bottom lakes wood helps . I build pallet stake beds . The pallet gives fish a hard surface above the mud and stakes provide cover .

You can build a stake bed out of a wood pallet. Come back and pour 4-6 five gallon buckets of pea gravel on top of said pallet!!!

You have just made a bedding area for the spawns. And also given cover and a place to catch the fish. Fertilizer needs to be put in sparingly to avoid excessive weed growth. Your optimum color is a pale green color to you water. If your water is black or highly acidic. You would need to apply agriculture like at 1 ton per 3 surface acres.

Originally Posted by sharphook

You have just made a bedding area for the spawns. And also given cover and a place to catch the fish. Fertilizer needs to be put in sparingly to avoid excessive weed growth. Your optimum color is a pale green color to you water. If your water is black or highly acidic. You would need to apply agriculture like at 1 ton per 3 surface acres.

Josh's lake is St John, in Ferriday La....Old Mississippi, deep Oxbow, 2500 acres. East side is all Cypress, West side all houses with docks. Agriculture run-off has covered gravel and sand bottom.

Put in bedding wood if you want tooo rough to fish over. Bottom line if it is public fishing on the honor system creep limits etc. Just fish and take friends and family when possible!!!! When you are dead and gone the things that are important are also. The fond memories of your smile and fellowship with fishing companions will along. E reason for smiles from family and rising friend when you are remembered!!!!!

What is the issue? Are you not growing big bream? I have a spot on a private oxbow lake and the bream are small. Perfect trot line bait size and you can catch them back to back. I don't know why we don't have any big titty bream in the lake. When I was younger we fished Yucatan and man we loaded up on the huge titty bream and the lakes are very similar beside our lake is not as deep.

Tucker