Favorite Lake

[surefoot]

[xbonez]

I love fishing at Cozy-Dale i would have to say this is my favorite lake by far

[Big Smooth]

Not to fond of the dale, I have fished it 9 times and not one run. But that is not why I don't care for it. I was fishing there with my father about 2 years ago on the main lake. There was probaly 2 other people fishing. There wasnt a thing happening, when I looked over to see the owner standing on the dock that looks over the main lake. I watched for about 15 minutes and I thought I saw him dumping something into his lake with a dip net. After about 1/2 hour my couriosity got the best of me and I had to know what he was throwing into the lake. I went up to the dok and opened the door to what was a large bait tank. Come to find out he was feeding his fish, now Im not talking about a couple pieces of bait, he threw in a boat 10 huge net fulls of live bait. This is why I will never fish the lake again. There is no doubt that the lake has fish in it, but when the owner is charging an outragouse price and then feeding his fish while I am trying to catch fish. I will not fish the lake again.

[xbonez]

what you are talking about is where he keeps all his live bait at that he sales in the bait shop. chubs,shinners,izzys etc. when he runs out of live bait in his shop he will go out on the dock and open the door and get some more bait and bring them inside the bait shop to sell. he is not feeding his fish.

[surefoot]

bigsmooth said:

There is no doubt that the lake has fish in it, but when the owner is charging an outragouse price and then feeding his fish while I am trying to catch fish. I will not fish the lake again.

I don't see a reason for him to feed his fish, he doesn't pay bounty. You'd think that he would want you to catch fish so that you would come back.

I added it up one time, and I don't remember the exact price, but a full ticket with all jackpots and an extra pole is over thirty dollars there. The guy has too many jackpots. Too much rolling the dice. You can spend so much on this jackpot, but if you don't get into this jackpot, then that is the fish you will catch (with my luck at least). The just need like a 50+ jar, weekly, and monthly, in my opinion.

[xbonez]

This is kind of a hard desicion I like the new lake becasue its hardley has any snags in it (atleast i havent found any yet) and i allways get atleast 2 or 3 runs every time i fish this lake.
The bigger lake is has allway been my favorite lake to fish. i do get snagged up from time to time but i caught alot of fish and had a blast at this lake. I like fishing deep and i love trolling this lake.
there was times where you cast out and got to set your baitclicker and your float was burried in a matter of seconds and it was like this allmost non stop. i remember seeing some guys hitting them left and right every 5 minutes they had a fish on and it was like that all day. i have seen bill just absouletly tear the fish up in this lake

although most of my success this year has been in the new lake i havent rreally done much good in the big lake this year.

[Big Smooth]

No what I saw was the owner reach into the live well and throw a couple nets full of fish into the lake. I don't care for someone who feeds his fish especialy when they are not biting. To me it is bad business. I can fish with the best of them. And as I said I sat there one day and watched a guy catch 30 fish in 8 hours , it was amazing. But the fact that he feeds his fish is just wrong. I saw the owner do this. It wasnt anything but feeding his lake.

[Cat-man]

I have fished several pay lakes. In my opinion, all pay lakes "feed" the fish. The lakes must have a supply of bait fish, natural or stocked, to keep the big fish alive. That is why you can fish a paylake for 15 hours and not get a bite; the fish are not starving.

[catfishbryan]

jcrrankin said:

I have fished several pay lakes. In my opinion, all pay lakes "feed" the fish. The lakes must have a supply of bait fish, natural or stocked, to keep the big fish alive. That is why you can fish a paylake for 15 hours and not get a bite; the fish are not starving.

im not gonna name any lakes what so ever, but there is a lake not to far from me. that when he stocks channel cats and blues or what ever it be. there is a good supply of bait dumped with them as well.

[Big Smooth]

With the lake full of bait fish, and bait fish breeding more fish? This does not make since. A lake stocked with these big fish after a while the lake becomes like any other natual envoirment. People releasing there bait at the end of the day, people slinging there bait off as they cast, the shad in the lake. There is no way these fish would starve and there is no way to justify feeding fish. Take cedar lake for example, ask the owner how often they throw bait fish in to feed the big cats. The response is they do not. As said before this lake gets a lot of business and there are a lot of fish caught. It's just not for me. To all on this forum, if you are slaying them at that lake, Good luck and good fishing. I am just a business man and love to fish. I just don't support what I believe to be bad business. Tight lines to all.

[Alsept1]

Bigsmooth has a very good point. I always see people tossing their leftover bait in the lake. It makes me angry!!!

[catfishbryan]

i dont dump my bait it comes back home to and back into the deep freeze bait tank

[Big Smooth]

Nothing lke some nice frozen izzy heads.

[catfishbryan]

to be honest i have never gotten any type of anything on izzy heads. have you had any luck usuing them

[Big Smooth]

I have at White Oak Valley. My dad he used to drive for Cincinnati Wholesale Bait and Tackle. He would freeze the dead fish and we would use them for bait. At white oak it never fails, Cut them right behind the gills as you step on them from the tail to the mid section and slice away. Tons of blood. If you can find a leech throw that on there as well.