Don’t be surprised if opening weekend is uncomfortable. The lake fishes small! 26 miles of shoreline sounds good until you do the math. 250 boats launched, 40 rental bass boats, 10 pontoon boats for a total of 300 boats. That’s 457 feet of shoreline for each boat, or 228 feet in either direction.

If there are 2 people per boat and each angler catches 20 fish, after 3 days of fishing the total fish caught for 300 boats is 36,000 fish. I have read the bass population is estimated at 40,000 to 50,000 fish (someone please correct me if the aforementioned numbers are wrong). It will not take long for these Florida strain bass to get educated.

Also, to get 70 boats launched on Saturday took approximately 1 hour. They had pontoon boats tied to the docks, which lessoned the number of available lanes. If this is the norm you can do the math and figure how long it will take to launch 250 boats.

Happy Fishing

Henry