A good one to interview in Texas would be Todd Driscol I believe he's running the biologists for Texas park and wildlife, excellent subject for a discussion 👍

@robburns6411

24 күн бұрын

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A well-deserved thumbs up for you!

I use to fish the Calcasieu and Sabine river a lot and after hurricane Rita those rivers had a massive fish kill. I run into a few Game Wardens out on Calcasieu who were doing some testing out there. I asked them if all the saltwater from the tidal surge is what killed all the fish and they told me it had way more to do with the river being out of its banks pulling all the old dead stuff off the forest floor back into the water. They said all that stuff basically sucks the oxygen out the water at a really fast rate. So I can see why it hurricanes can hurt some fisheries and not others. I think you're 100% spot on when saying how water quality effects the fish I'd say that's probably more important then anything else.

That certainly explains bass fishing on this mud hole called Livingston.. Hard to fish here when I can drive an hour or so to a better lake.

Interesting topic, thanks for going over it.

I appreciate the honesty. How you can take criticism at face value and not make it personal. I’ve talked trash but still a fan. 🍿🍻🍀🎣

Good video. I think you are correct about the water quality. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. The story about your fish tank, sold me.

See if you can bring on Dr. Shannon brewer down here at Auburn. Worked on the red river, has lots of experience with lots of different fisheries and river systems across the south

Great stuff Todd, miss whiskey videos. Personally I hate fast rising or fast dropping, either situation I struggle to catch fish.

Stay Safe And Prayers To All...

Hurricanes are absolutely great for ecosystems and economy's it flushes the lakes and gives them a fresh start to thrive. I came to this conclusion in 2015 while living in Okeechobee Fl.

@kwd1253

24 күн бұрын

Sometimes, that is true. We had massive fish kills from Hurricanes in louisiana. Because of all down trees and leaves kills the oxygen in water.

@nancyzipperer8819

24 күн бұрын

@@kwd1253 awesome letting know that info. The nitrogen from the decomp. Suddenly and I'm such mass.... so any where water isn't moving or getting trapped from the down trees. Damn that sucks

Toledo has a rust tint and is murkey for the last 3 weeks or so. Before that the heavy rains and current from it had it better than I've ever seen (50 bass days for 6 weeks straight). It's definitely in a slump right now

@toddcastledinefishing5924

24 күн бұрын

Yea crazy how the light switch just turned off

My home lake , Lake Panasoffkee had major fish kill from Hurricane Ima . Panfish are hit the hardest , but Bass were effected pretty bad as well . The Withlachoochee River flooded into it and it had the dissolved oxygen issue. I was amazed how fast it came back ! With in 2 years the lake was fishing great again!

Totally agree with water quality, we don’t see bullfrogs like we used too, which is supposedly attributed to water quality. I’m friends with the Jasper hatchery biologists I can see if he will speak with you. Good Christian dude a little older than us.

Also Samuel said to interview Todd Driscoll. That’s worth looking into

Hope everything is good on yalls end

Great video with some very good points and questions. I live on the Louisiana/Mississippi line on the coast and any kind of tropical weather that pushes water up in my area completely screws it up for a couple of months. The water will go from stained/slightly stained to tannic almost overnight and you would swear all the fish are dead. 1 month ago I was crushing them all over the pearl river and in areas around Lake Pontchartrain. The water came up really fast from the first hurricane that went into Mexico about 3 weeks ago, I’m still struggling to catch 5 and the water is still a stained tannic color from that event. I know there still there, they must not be feeding because of water quality. Thank you for the insight

Our 4th started out so promising here in south Texas and in a 2 day period we went from thinking were going to get some much needed water in our lakes. April fools zero rain here horrible for us

Here in the North East our bigger tournaments are held on Tidal Rivers and Large Natural Lakes. Storms have almost no effect on these big lakes and the impact on tidal rivers generally effect navigation more than the fishing. I have fish tanks and PH has a great effect on your fish. Also native brook trout do better in streams with lower PH than the invasive Brown and Rainbow Trout that the state stocks. 40 years ago PH maters were being promoted as a fish finding tool. I would suspect your experience with your pet bass and the activity level of the bass in your area lakes is related to PH.

Todd Tylerreelfishing posted a video 5 days ago where he interviewed a biologist named Steven Barton. It can answer a lot of your questions

One of the first questions should be, what is in the water shed. Is it farm land, pasture or industrial land. Each year farmers spray cotton, rice and other crops. Each year when you have heavy rains the water runs off. The water contains these chemicals and is washed into our rivers and lakes. Each year there is a fish kill, in our bays and river systems. You can set your watch by it. The longer the drought the worst it is. Go by your county commissioner and ask what the county sprays the drainage with. Most say not to be used around marine life. Yet the drainage is sprayed every year and the run off goes in to the water shed. Citys release waste water into our ecosystem. They say it is clean. From the studies I can find. A women's birth control pill does not break down. What is that doing to the rivers and lakes. Plants have dumped all kinds of things in our lakes and rivers.. you can ask the questions, but you get very few answers

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BTW, be safe I hope you guys come through it okay 👍

Just curious Todd. How do these big storms affect Whiskey? Does he eat or sulk?

You got me thinking about what this would do to the thermoclime? Does it change away from the main channel ?

A couple years ago you had a category 4?

New boat garage??

Water here is off color after being high for two months and they have dropped it. Water quality sucks. Stinks and is off color. Fishing sucks. Good point.

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If the gates are open on Fork you might as well not go.

Dumb question, but what makes for good water quality?

@toddcastledinefishing5924

19 күн бұрын

not sure

The poster of yourself behind you for people to see really speaks about your personality. Is there anything you don't know?

I’m no water scientist or biologist but I can think logically. Here it goes, If you kill grass, bad for fishing, and when they spray grass they can’t spray ALL of it….but if you flood a lake, you might, and that’s a lot more dying grass…? Ehe?

Maybe its tough because so many fish got put in livewells and died. Lol

@toddcastledinefishing5924

24 күн бұрын

True

@toddcastledinefishing5924

24 күн бұрын

Deathwells

Your fertilizers,insecticides,oils,gas, etc 😢 run-off into the water will attribute to the issue!

It took 2;minutes before you started complaining about people. How you have 35 k subscribers I have no idea.