The lagoon over the years has had its ups and downs. After Troy had a good whack on them in the mid 90's, and Gary Harrison killed all of those fish, the lake started a "little" downswing and fell out of the spotlight. Casitas was on the rise so the Lagoon fish had time to adjust even though Pat and Butch continued to sore lip every bass in the pond. Now that Butch has let the word out on the amount of fish that he has caught over the last couple of years, the pond has seen more pressure. I imagine that once again the pressure will put the fish off and it will once again fall out of the spotlight if you will. With such a small lake and the fact that there are only about 5 or 6 "spots" on the lake, people will get tired of battling the locals with the commando style fishing and once again turn back to other lakes.

None of us want to see a 19+ killed but you need to realize that unless you are a true trophy hunter, killing a big fish isn't really that big of a deal. It's unfortunate but this is something that none of us are going to be able to change. The fish made a stupid mistake and it paid for it. I was hoping that the dirty water would stay through the spawn but that was too much to hope for I guess.