Recommendations for Santa Fe Dam/Reservoir

[addicted2sp33d]

Originally Posted by guamboas

Those arent rocks down there its probably a body.

I would not be surprised at all if I pulled up a body.

When I was using a crankbait, I pulled out a lot of rags, sandwich bags, and grocery bags.

I even pulled out one T-Shirt that looked like someone just took it off and threw it into the water! It was covered in mud, but it was an otherwise intact T-Shirt!

[tattuna]

Yeah, that place sucks! It was once a really productive lake with big fish. Still the biggest bass I've seen in person was in that lake. I know a guy who caught an 8 pounder there last year on a buzzbait of all things though. If I remember right the deepest part of that dump is 13 feet.

By the late 80's there were fish with lesions all over em swimming close to shore dying from fungal infections. They would shut the lake down for weeks at a time and treat it with all kinds of chemials.Turns out it was from excess fecal matter from people swimming and shitting in the lake.There was a death nearly every weekend there from people who would get drunk and go swimming then get their legs wrapped up in all the weeds and couldn't get free. I stopped fishing there around that time. The whole fungal thing was just nasty.

There's still fish in there, but not like there once was. I've fished it a few times since it's less thn a mile from me, but I haven't caught a decent bass there since 2001.