The 5 Most Overrated Bass Lakes In America…(Don’t Waste Your Money Going To Them)

Randy talks about the most overrated lakes in the country…#bassboat #bassfishing #bassproshop #bassfishinglures #lake

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[brianbickhaus]

How about a list of your Top 10 Underrated Lakes?

[darrellgrant]

I live near Lake Champlain and grew up on it. I’m TERRIFIED of what is going to happen to it because of all the tournaments. We’re way up north and the fishing window is very narrow to begin with. From Memorial Day to Labor Day it gets hammered with tourneys. I wish they’d cap the number of permits issued for tournaments and also have a grace period like 14 days minimum between tournaments. I hate tournaments anyway that involve weigh ins. NY and Vermont did a joint study on its effects and there’s NOTHING positive for the fish.

[Fishing]

I’m in California. Where I live there are 4 reservoir’s within an hour. One is terrible due to pressure from fishing and heavy recreational traffic.
The other three are great. Two are predominantly large mouth and one is smallest and spots.
I’m glad that BASS and MLF ignore the west coast.

[Marcus-justice]

Randy, I wish you would send this video to the Lake Havasu, Arizona chamber of commerce. They have allowed that lake to get over-fished every year from February to May. They allow dozens of tournaments every weekend. And, the Winter visiting snowbirds sustenance fish and fill their ice chest every day without being checked for limits. I have spoken to the local tackle shop owners who are stuck in a quandary between selling tackle and watching the lake go downhill.

[RileyBrody-io]

I’m just glad I live up north and it gets cold enough to deter constant pressure year round. Yeah ice fishing is there but not nearly as problematic in terms of pressure.

[savagebiker]

Can't believe you put Table Rock in the list but didn't even mention Lake of the Ozarks. Same problems as Table Rock, but so much worse. Some days there'll be 2000 or more tournament boats on that lake at the same time. Probably at least 75% of the shoreline is developed, which I absolutely HATE! So many people live on that lake, which means it sees a RIDICULOUS amount of recreational fishing pressure IN ADDITION to the tournament pressure. Plus it sucks to fish because not only are the fish heavily pressured, but also that lake attracts more recreational boat traffic than just about anywhere else in the country. And yet, people still hype it up like it's still as good as it was back in the day

[jeffscherer]

Kentucky lake is making a comeback. I live 30 minutes from it. I fish BFLs on it. I knew it was gonna make this list and it's not a fair call. The smallmouth have exploded. Granted that's because tva messes with water levels during the spawn and kills many largemouth. It does indeed get tons of pressure. But kentucky and barkley are two of the best lakes I've ever fished. After my regionals two seasons ago my number one would be ozarks. What a miserable fishery with the yachts throwing 5ft wakes and cigarette boats, never mind fishing pressure.

[markolson]

After reading the comments and watching the video Im hearing the pressure is awful everywhere. I have been fishing a large well known public lake for bass in the fall for near 20 years now. I have never seen another bass fisherman. A gift in todays world.

[buckchaser]

Lake Fork died when the hydrilla disappeared.

[johnnymassengale]

Lake Chickamauga is a shadow of what she use to be. The combination of the TVA spraying grass, which they deny even with video footage of it occurring, far too much fishing pressure and pleasure boat traffic.

[patshively]

I agree, I've got a lake house on Birch creek at Lake Fork. Been there for 34 years. Please don't come to Fork. Fishing is tough. LOL

[Byoung]

Too many tournaments everywhere, the local lake here where I live gets hit too much
Tournaments aren’t good for the bass populations

[formerIWUcoachDDD]

I have a friend who has a place on Barkley, and he says, and I've read elsewhere that those lakes are making a comeback. They had a tremendous Asian carp problem, and they've really worked hard to try to get that under control, and from what I've read, they've made good progess on that front.

[basschaser]

Randy being the old grandpa will keep telling people in his 80 “back in my days 40yrs ago fishing was good “

Little Billy who is 10yrs old with livescope just don’t care lol

[Basscater]

Talk about bass going on the frying pan. Toledo Bend. Damn cajuns take out everything they catch and it’s a bigger limit on the LA side.

[edwardgerdemann]

I once fished on Alamo Lake, AZ, a 2000 to 3000 acre lake depending on water level, and there were 125 tournament boats on it 0 one 65-boat Arizona tournament and two 30-boat California tournaments. You COULD NOT motor straight across the lake with so many bass boats ripping back and forth at 60 mph. With so many boats on the lake none of the three tournament clubs had good tournaments, and the lake was completely wrecked for recreational fishermen. The tournament guys acknowledged that and with many saying that was just too many boats and the conditions were too dangerous. The week prior I got caught in a 150-boat tournament on Roosevelt Lake, still too many boats even though Roosevelt is three to four times bigger than Alamo. The very next week my wife and I went up to Page, AZ, and bought a mobile home near Lake Powell, and I've fished there ever since.

[joshuacrow]

I’m a couple hours from Table Rock. Great for recreation but not fishing. My home lake Lake Dardanelle in the Arkansas River Valley was once a great lake. When my 16 year old was young he got a love of fishing catching bass on minnows. He then moved on to fiahing Youth Bass Hawgs. He does well but hates tourneys on our home lake. Big tournaments and college/high school tournaments so often have decimated the lake.

[bigc]

I fish lake Fork all the time and have for years. In addition to too much spraying for vegetation, it's the fishing pressure that makes it so tough to fish. I've struck out even with famous guides who know the lake intimately. The best thing you can say about Fork is, yes, any cast could yield the bass of a life time.

[lmramos]

Randy I would love to see you come out to California and fish our delta and some of our huge reservoirs. There are some monster bass in our trout planted lakes. I think it would be completely different then fishing the lakes in your area.

[woodwired]

I’ve fished Sam Rayburn for 50 years and it has been way overrated in the last 20 years. And the fishing pressure has become insane.