Fellows still quiet

[slab slinger]

Slabstacker...good report sounds like ya got inot em good, but if your trying to help substain The crappie population or worried about a successful spawn on your lake you need to keep the females and release the males. When you keep a male the eggs in his nest that he is guarding are not going to make it. Keeping females is better on reassuring a successful spawn because not all females are going to spawn and if they already spawned then well your not hurting a thing. Everyone's Intitled to keep what they want i just thing is better not to keep males so your not leving unguarded nests full of eggs.

[slabstacker]

None of the females I caught had spawn yet they were packed full of eggs still, I only kept 5 males from different areas on the lake just enough for me and my wife to have that night so I am sure the females will have plenty of options as far as a nest to lay in when it comes time.

[slab slinger]

I wasnt trying to offend you at all. Everyone has the right to keep any legal fish male or female. I was just trying to point out the fact that keeping females is a better option. We have all caught females in june that still have eggs in them that never spawned. There bodies will just ingest the eggs and move on. Theres nothing wrong with keeping a few males either there's thousands of crappie in each lake and keeping the population in check by keeping a few only makes the quality of the fishery even better. We all know how crappie will take over a pond and all of the fish will be dinks beacuse theres not enough food/habitat to sustain an overabundance of crappie. Didnt want you to take it the wrong way. Glad to hear that you did well on your trip. I struggle on that lake and have almost gave up on fishing there several times. Haha