[Rhodes1]

I went out twice to Lake Travis, Monday with my boat and last night just from the bank. A couple bites on a slow rolling spinner but I think they were deeper than what I was fishing. I was back in the coves.

I am two thirds up the lake, at mile marker 46. This area was almost dry last Fall and Summer, and LT was a small stream. Now that the lake has come back up 45 feet, how long will it take for the largemouth population to repopulate and rehabitate these area and upriver? Did the low level hurt bass numbers? Have the bass already dispersed or are they mainly still in the lower lake where the water was during the drought?

 

[The_Bass_Man]

They are already there. As far as repopulating, As far as I know there was not a big loss of Bass when the water was down.


Chris

 

[Rhodes1]

Thanks, Chris. Maybe rehabitate is the better word. So you think they are already there? That all of those fish that were "refugees" and pushed 10-20 river miles from their homes have already made the long swim back up?

 

[The_Bass_Man]

After fishing for white bass out there and chasing them up and down the lake, I think those fish can go from one end of the lake to the other in a day if they want to. IMO I would tend to think that the fish that were there just went down as far as they had to and are now moving back in as the water comes back up.


Chris

 

[RO]

Last winter/early spring when the lake was low (650s), I waded from Camp Creek and saw several nice 4-6 lb lmb crusing in deep pools (6-8 ft deep) in the river that hold water even in absence of flow. So SOME bass stay in the "river" even when the lake recedes...

 

[SkeeterMark]

NEVER! The fish will never be back up the river again! lol ;D