For 11 Years...

[SunsetBengal]

(08-03-2019, 01:02 PM)fredtoast Wrote: When I was a kid pretty much every summer we would go to a place on the Canadian side of Lake Erie called Rondeau Bay.   It was famous for the bass fishing.  My dad would fish early every morning then the family would go to the beach on Lake Erie in the afternoon.  The bay had so much vegetation that they had "choppers" cut channels from around the dock out to the deeper water.  We stopped going for many years, but when my sister's kids started getting bigger she suggested that we all go back.  Turns out they had used some kind of weed killer to get rid of the vegetation and all the bass had left.  All that was left were small perch and stuff like that.  Back in the 60's and 70's that bay was full of big bass, but last time I checked Rondeau Bay it is was being promoted as a waterfowl/birdwatching site.

That's sad about your childhood fishing spot.  When i lived at the beach, my place was on a lake, between two Golf Course neighborhoods.  The vegetation in there grew at a phenomenal rate, due to all of the fertilizers and such that washed into the lake from the golf courses.  However, this made excellent habitat for the large mouth bass.  Several of us would wade out and rake out casting lanes off our back yards.  In the dozen or so years that I lived there, It wasn't uncommon to see a 10 pounder or two taken each year.