MoCarp

one thing carpers do is take extra care of our catch. here is a fish that has been captured a few times, last time a few days ago and is now 34-4. fish prob is pushing 20 years old now, perhaps if bass grew as large or lived as long more effort would be put into individual fish care

yeah just need a REALLY big microwave😇

those look a tad short

13#er was landed when the lake 1st opened

numbers of people fishing! and! with more people so those that do keep fish to eat...saw a post in another page of a guy holding a 4 pound smallmouth he kept to eat, more people turn loose their catch these days but we have 200% people, IMHO stress on bass from tourneys Bfing baby bass food makers has had an impact, I also think genetics are getting less and less for fish that can get huge...Truman back in the day had a 13# bass caught, so the genes are there to get huge, over time the fish that get huge get harvested for a mount or a meal...something that should get addressed

meat fisherman are just that, to them fishing is for dinner 1st, thankfully a smaller and smaller % of anglers are like that anymore, putting a knife to those bass is why we don't see 13# bass in Missouri lakes, they can get that big here at least the fraction with the genes to do so, so much pressure on TR its a wonder and fish break 6# anymore crappie live fast die young keeping them for the pot is fine a 4 year old crappie is on its last legs, I would like to see a 12" limit on crappie and drop the bag to 10, and like other states, make a total per boat as well.. that way dragging the 4 year olds to get an extra 15 would dodge stop I release big walleyes you should see the look on someones face when you let a double digit one go in front of them!!!

yup, people went nuts there for a while...till a yote or bobcat ate their pet fluffy

where and how the tracks are made will tell you about the critter, the way a mink moves along a creek bank tells me its a mink instead of squirrel tracks, you can tell 20 feet away (snow) or how and where fox tracks are, house cat, grey or red fox how they act tells you bunches, 'yotes tracks may look like a dogs, but they sure don't cross a field the same ways, bobcats just how they move will tell you...took me a life time of trapping to learn these things...learning to read "sign"

hat band

its attitude like that brings out nasty regulations

the trilobed pad is the dead giveaway of a puma

http://wwmt.com/news/local/kalamazoo-river-boat-launch-reopened-after-dozens-of-discarded-carp-carcasses-found

I do as well, a few would get caught well into the mid 80's price branch seemed to turn up a few on spinnerbaits, could be some minor spawning, it would be quite a feet for a fish to make it up from fellows, the water that gets pumped from stockton is the only connection to any springfield lake, its possible a few would get moved from pomme or fellows

not really, it keeps us up on conflicts of interest, tabs on infiltrators who seek to find places to shoot bigger carp, since many Bfer tourneys allow trailering can earn them a nice big fish check even if it comes out of the freezer for weigh in,😮 also this quote kinda says it all “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War I understand that your goal (and many others) of fishing is #1 meat on the table and #2 fun, I would bet not many will show you their fav fishing spots, save a 5# smallmouth or in my case a 30# carp falls to your knife, just an observation

how the heck is a muskie going to get to stockton from fellows unless it was moved there?, me thinks a few where tested there...be cool if they did

the article says the fish was a shade under 33 pounds the state alt record is well over 50#, the BAA is not the state, its a bow fishing org that has few paid members but under 4k free ones (we have spies there to keep track of them) and they do the records thing so people will step up and pay, I have no issue with eating smaller carp but larger ones is like putting a knife to a 10# bass...that fish was well over 12 years old, bigger fish that avoid the Bfers only get stupid when spawning and are shallow and vulnerable. bigger carp get pretty savvy, and rarely take a casual attempt at catching them, fish under 17 or 18# can be caught pretty easy, but even then will shell out lesser reels or spool you...if not they will get to brush and they are done,here is a dandy upper 30 by a friend of mine caught last week, he released it to be caught again a little bigger

that bass was shot illegally in AR, that guy has video on his FB even...I have pics of shot trout, walleyes and muskies, kinda like gigging "game fish" get hit all the time. Saw the bit about the big mirror shot, needless to say a few of my buddies are a bit miffed, one the fish isn't a record, just a BAA club record a group with less paid members than than the CAG group I have been in for 25 years and two that fish has been caught twice once when it was 14# and 24# it is an easy fish to recognize being a linear...now no -one will ever catch it again tossed it the woods for the flies, I know the article was share on several carp pages including a few over seas, I'd bet a few choice e-mails and comments are getting made..one of the reasons I do not share spots or captures that can be tracked.

WELCOME! and ditto on the stone creek lodge have heard nothing but good things about them

well said

Bass are pretty easy to shoot too it seems

Not everyone thinks it cool to shoot them! some cool things coming to our area soon😎..... if Ike can so can you

not a record

Stockton Crappie bite will be on fire after this rain and don't forget some great 'shooming can be had all around the lake!

not gigging, but poachers poach