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I'd love to learn the section from Holiday Island to as far as you can catch bass in a boat up river from there. My lower unit talks me out of it. Beaver town area is as far as I go.

Absolutely. Also in the middle of drains along flats. Lots of good ingredients there. I've mentioned before I need to spend a day just looking for trees between eagle rock and shell knob. Especially up to big m.

I agree but I think the pattern is established by now.

Lol! Trying to get off the kill thing and stripers come up! Hahahaha! I think you should be waypointing me some good willow trees. That's waaaaaaay more fun than actual fishing.

Yea that was a pretty tasteless way of disposing of them. Throw them in a creek or something.

What did you mean by right at the mouth of accessible?

It could if that was the norm but once more look at the current condition. The lake survived. Also the lmbv was to blame and was my point. My guess is the keep to release ratio was about what it is now. Maybe less considering the fewer lm numbers at that time. Nevertheless history up till now is what I'm resting my case on. It's hard to argue against the proof. I'm not advocating anybody keep anything. I'm saying leave the ones that do keep alone even if it not what you or I practice. They obviously aren't hurting anything. The crappie though I really dont know. They do get beat on pretty hard but again a one month window is hardly enough evidence to prove there's a problem.

I think even the folks that do keep bass etc are in complete agreement everything you just said. On this board anyway. It's the narrow minded extremist that say you can't keep any of "this" species because I like it more that have the bigger issue. That's how I see it anyway. Again c&r guy talking but I'm not one with a narrow mind on what is acceptable harvest and definitely don't want to chastise someone for exercising that right ESPECIALLY when the lake is in good shape. If table rock has a bass shortage in the future the guys filleting fish will not be a contributing factor. Moderation is great on both sides of the fence.

On the crappie I do wonder if it has just been tougher to catch them. Maybe? Is it possible that since most everyone (including myself) mainly crappie fishes in April when it's easy, and that because it was just a tough spring for whatever reason that the population is in fact thriving and a problem doesn't exist at all? Just because the weren't in 2' of water and going nuts may not be the best indicator. Probably not the case but possible. How did the winter crappie guys do? That would be a more accurate picture I'd think.

Besides as I've pointed out a thousand times bed fishing and the few that are keeping fish are obviously not hurting anything by the condition of the lake so to each their own. That's the one thing people are overlooking. The facts. Is the lake suffering? Nope. Well then continue on people because we must have a pretty good balance going here.

I wish they'd do this to stockton badly. After they left the lake way to high for a couple year it killed 95% of the willows. If they'd do this with grand that lake would be scary how good it could be.

More habitat in 15' and less would also not hurt a thing.

Thank you Phil

This is very very interesting. So they are able to moderate what temp of water comes through or you mean it's a constant flow? I do wish I could have seen the lake prior to beaver. Just because.

Native to a river that is now a bunch of lakes. That don't compute. If the river was restored then yes.

Well water ever you said I'm pretty sure I don't like it lol. Jk. I believe we have the most diverse range of lakes right here than anywhere. We just need a grass lake. Seriously though consider what is within 2-2.5hrs of Carthage where I live. It's really pretty amazing. Even 1.5hrs is more than what I can bother to fish on a regular basis.

We will drain it slow and eat well for a long time. This way we can send over the fish we want one by one. We are also making table rocks dam taller. Might as well use that new real estate.

Stockton seems to get as much crappie pressure as anyone but like has been pointed out the population seems great. Table Rock crappie run bigger though generally. If we exploded the Beaver dam and had an actual river at the upper end of Table Rock it would help. That might be a little extreme though.

Just curious. I had one that would shock me a lot.

Dodge?

Very nice good sir! I bet that was a fun day!

Starting a campaign about how bad the crappie fishing sucks at table rock would help as well probably. The people would go elsewhere lol.

Does the flooding that helps bass spawn the hurt crappie spawn? The timing seems right for it.

I just wonder if they were implored to stay out or what happened. I wasn't there so I can't say what it was like weather wise leading up to it. It rained at grand but I never heard thunder or anything. The storm that got hi came between grand and beaver I believe.