Basically what my boy "cox" just said sums it all up.
Cliff Crochet's fish definately came off shoreline veg ...... not frog's over hydrilla. The funniest thing about that is up in (deleted by 'gcoxvb') Creek, you very rarely saw a bass boat, mostly just jon boats and guys catfishing. For a solid week after that TX, you'd cross the bridges in the upper ends of (deleted by 'gcoxvb') and (deleted by 'gcoxvb') and there was 5-10 bass boats up each one ALL WEEK LONG !
I do definitely agree that this lake has changed over the years (meaning 20) and the only thing I can acct it to is BBH. If you'd told us 20yrs ago to go run the BBH bite we'd looked at you like you're nuts. Back then the bass were so pattern-able it was nuts. I mean to the point where you fished it in the upper end (Hester's Bottom and north), then 1wk later you fished it in the Hickory Knob area, and then 1 wk later in Parksville/Modoc. If you were junk fishing, you were generally just some guy unable to get on the exact pattern. Not so today.
"Cox" ..... I agree ...... I don't understand either ........ someone needs to read to them ........ would love to understand blanks and tumblers ......... seen I missed a call but no message to follow up on.