11-09 | Drought Slowly Taking Toll on Lakes Brownwood and Coleman

[TX P&W RSS Feed]

ATHENS--Lakes Brownwood and Coleman are historically known for consistent and decent largemouth bass fishing, where anglers could expect to catch a bunch of small bass with a few keepers along the way and even an occasional big bass. But the current downhill slide of water level, dating back to 2007, is beginning to take a toll on these bass populations based on recent electrofishing surveys, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's standard method of collecting information on numbers and sizes of largemouth bass in a lake.

More...