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With Livescope no lake is overrated…😂
Surprised that clear lake did not make the list lol
Too many tournaments everywhere, the local lake here where I live gets hit too much
Tournaments aren’t good for the bass populations
After reading the comments and watching the video Im hearing the pressure is awful everywhere. I have been fishing a large well known public lake for bass in the fall for near 20 years now. I have never seen another bass fisherman. A gift in todays world.
Randy, I wish you would send this video to the Lake Havasu, Arizona chamber of commerce. They have allowed that lake to get over-fished every year from February to May. They allow dozens of tournaments every weekend. And, the Winter visiting snowbirds sustenance fish and fill their ice chest every day without being checked for limits. I have spoken to the local tackle shop owners who are stuck in a quandary between selling tackle and watching the lake go downhill.
Add Santee Cooper to your list.
I would put Dale Hollow and Santee Cooper on that list. Both are the most disappointing lakes I have ever fished.
Hey Randy!, it's idiots like you and the rest of the bass tournament anglers that have ruined countless lakes across the USA! You are a hypocrite! Get a life,,, and more importantly,,,, get a real job!
Pickwick is more overrated than Kentucky.
Can't believe you put Table Rock in the list but didn't even mention Lake of the Ozarks. Same problems as Table Rock, but so much worse. Some days there'll be 2000 or more tournament boats on that lake at the same time. Probably at least 75% of the shoreline is developed, which I absolutely HATE! So many people live on that lake, which means it sees a RIDICULOUS amount of recreational fishing pressure IN ADDITION to the tournament pressure. Plus it sucks to fish because not only are the fish heavily pressured, but also that lake attracts more recreational boat traffic than just about anywhere else in the country. And yet, people still hype it up like it's still as good as it was back in the day
Grand Lake gets a dose of toxic Lead tailings from the nearbyTar Creek superfund reclamation area. Maybe you could honor your memories of Grand Lake by not selling jigs and lures made with toxic Lead and kicking the can down the road for someone else to clean up. Where’s your lead mined?
I’m in California. Where I live there are 4 reservoir’s within an hour. One is terrible due to pressure from fishing and heavy recreational traffic.
The other three are great. Two are predominantly large mouth and one is smallest and spots.
I’m glad that BASS and MLF ignore the west coast.
BASS sucks, ”these” people suck, these lakes suck, this lure sucks, this color sucks (because I’m jealous of KVD), on and on.
I have a friend who has a place on Barkley, and he says, and I've read elsewhere that those lakes are making a comeback. They had a tremendous Asian carp problem, and they've really worked hard to try to get that under control, and from what I've read, they've made good progess on that front.
I’m just glad I live up north and it gets cold enough to deter constant pressure year round. Yeah ice fishing is there but not nearly as problematic in terms of pressure.
I caught 30 lbs on Lake Okeechobee yesterday never saw a boat all day 😂 I strongly disagree I fish it every weekend
There all getting destroyed by all these tournaments anytime you put money into the equation you lose in the end. Same here in VA NC Roanoke Rapids lake is 4600 acres or so and they have tournaments EVERY WEEKEND and it’s 30 boats plus other recreational fishing and in the last couple years the fishing has declined. Went from 30 pound bags to 15 pound bags in less than a few years. Why can’t they see the damage they are doing? Or do they even care? Destroy our lakes for a couple thousand bucks is just ridiculous!! Gaston lake is not what it used to be either. TOO MUCH PRESSURE!!!! Now they are killing the Chowan River now with all their tournaments. Money has ruined the sport 😢
You left off by far the most over rated lake in the country by a wide margin .. Headwater Lake/Lake Fellsmere in central Florida. All the hype surrounding this place has trashed this lake in just a couple of years. Haven't seen a bass over 5 lbs in 6 months. Luckily the lake literally on the other side of the dyke has lots of 5 + lbers and nobody fishes it. Last week there was 45 trailers in th3 parking lot at Headwaters single ramp and 5 at this other lake … guess where I was fishing .. lol 👽🦖
Table Rock should be #1. It's an awful fishery. Super tough and lots of little fish. Moved to Branson 2017 from northern Minnesota because of the nice weather and like-minded people. Gotta tell ya I have been thoroughly disappointed. Bull shoals is super under rated while table rock is super over rated. Blows my mind why anyone would ever come to the Ozarks and fish table rock when Bull shoals is so awesome
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Talk about bass going on the frying pan. Toledo Bend. Damn cajuns take out everything they catch and it’s a bigger limit on the LA side.
I live near Lake Champlain and grew up on it. I’m TERRIFIED of what is going to happen to it because of all the tournaments. We’re way up north and the fishing window is very narrow to begin with. From Memorial Day to Labor Day it gets hammered with tourneys. I wish they’d cap the number of permits issued for tournaments and also have a grace period like 14 days minimum between tournaments. I hate tournaments anyway that involve weigh ins. NY and Vermont did a joint study on its effects and there’s NOTHING positive for the fish.
I avoid any water that gets promoted a lot. I got a chance to fish Okeechobee but I was doing really well in a local canal so I never made it to the big O.
No one come to Missouri… all are lakes suck!!!
Grand Lake is absolutely correct. Way too much fishing pressure.
Lake Okeechobee isn't what it used to be, but don't fall victim to the enviro-weenie talking points.
The majority, the overwhelming majority of the sugar cane grown is south of the lake. Been that way for decades. There is a tiny bit west, and some east of it, but the natural flow of water is south and the SFWMD hasn't allowed back pumping into the lake, regardless of what you hear, in over 30 years.
There are three things killing the lake; nutrients and phosphates coming down the Kissimmee River, the relentless, unsupervised and unmanaged spraying attact by the FWC and the water level being held way to high. At this point the lake is a sewer for central Florida and a holding pond for both coasts. Until these three things are addressed the lake will continue to die and in turn so will what remains of the Everglades.
Make Lake O Great Again! Slow the Flow, Stop the Spraying and keep the water level around 13' above sea level.
Table Rock is really getting rough.
Good luck
Kentucky lake is making a comeback. I live 30 minutes from it. I fish BFLs on it. I knew it was gonna make this list and it's not a fair call. The smallmouth have exploded. Granted that's because tva messes with water levels during the spawn and kills many largemouth. It does indeed get tons of pressure. But kentucky and barkley are two of the best lakes I've ever fished. After my regionals two seasons ago my number one would be ozarks. What a miserable fishery with the yachts throwing 5ft wakes and cigarette boats, never mind fishing pressure.