Lake Okhissa in Mississippi.

Used to be really good, then it sucked, starting to come back

It was closed for 2 years to remove giant Sylvania and to also refertilize the lake. It doesn't self refertilize, so they Drew it down and let grass grow. Let it fill back up, the grass will die and that will refertilize. They will have to do this every 5 or so years, the plan is not to close it in the future, just draw down to a lower winter pool.

It opened on the 15th, I went on the 16th. There was 136 boats there that day. I fished from about 7:30am until 5pm and caught 53, the largest coming in at 5lbs, there were a lot over 3. I seen a lot of guys keeping fish under the slot, which is fine. Also seen some guys keep slot fish and got busted. It's a federal lake so those were federal tickets. Went back the next week and only got to fish for about 2 hours but still caught 16. Didn't see a single agent there that day. As long as this lake is managed right, it'll produce big fish. It's stocked with F1's.
During the closure, they stocked it with 400k panfish, 50k catfish and 5000 gizzard shad. Bass numbers were healthy so they didn't restock any of them.

quote:

---

Got a picture holding the fish signed by Bill Dance for it.

---

That's impressive. What kind of marker did he use to sign the fish?