Release more crappie with eggs!

[Iclass]

HAHA, I think you know what I mean, but for clarity let's say just 20% in the next year.

Sorry, the smarta$$ in me couldn't resist

[Champ188]

All you bass guys berating everyone else for keeping fish might just backfire as people like me who are now gonna take every legal fish outta table rock that i catch. Find something better to complain about.

Any such group of people would likely lack both the intelligence and numbers to do any real harm. So carry on, wayward sons.

[MOPanfisher]

Simply closing a spawning area or changing length limit isn't going to do anything. Something is lacking, How is the shad population on TR. Crappie are shad specialists, bass will happily eat shad and bluegill or if they are in short supply bass will happily eat smaller bass. Crappie don't have mouths big enough to eat little bass, so the small shad are a critical link in their food chain.

[jtram]

Simply closing a spawning area or changing length limit isn't going to do anything. Something is lacking, How is the shad population on TR. Crappie are shad specialists, bass will happily eat shad and bluegill or if they are in short supply bass will happily eat smaller bass. Crappie don't have mouths big enough to eat little bass, so the small shad are a critical link in their food chain.

And the thread is back on track . I dunno much but around big m there are a bunch of minnows swimming around.....

[mjk86]

Any such group of people would likely lack both the intelligence and numbers to do any real harm. So carry on, wayward sons.

fair enough

[5bites]

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

[Champ188]

About 20 years ago, the COE pulled Lake Ouachita down about 10 feet below conservation pool and mostly held it there for 5 years. The result was a world of new shallow-cover growth, which led to a rebound of crappie and largemouth bass populations.

While Ouachita is also a flood control reservoir, it might be that this would be impossible with Table Rock because of location, weather patterns, etc. But new cover is never, ever a bad thing.

[dtrs5kprs]

About 20 years ago, the COE pulled Lake Ouachita down about 10 feet below conservation pool and mostly held it there for 5 years. The result was a world of new shallow-cover growth, which led to a rebound of crappie and largemouth bass populations.

While Ouachita is also a flood control reservoir, it might be that this would be impossible with Table Rock because of location, weather patterns, etc. But new cover is never, ever a bad thing.

This happened in some of the western KS lakes about the same time I quit chasing tmts. Back around 2000 or so, in lakes like Cedar Bluff. They were hotter than doughnut grease for a few years because of it.

[dtrs5kprs]

Although I respect your ethics, mine are different. Placing a blanket ethical judgement on a choice of what to keep or not isn't my place, nor yours. No matter the species. I understand your beliefs in selective harvest and practice the same methods most of the time. Not everyone that wets a line has that luxury.

It would not have a thing to do with my ethics, yours, or anyone else's except the angler making the choice. That angler still has to make a choice about each fish caught.

Not a whole lot of subsistence level fishing going on in this country, especially by folks making trips to other states to fish. That would be the only thing that could eliminate the existence of that choice.

[Wesley]

To easy to catch in the spring. Close flat creek from the flat creek inn up 1 mile. From april 5th thru the 25th. Let them apawn.There re so many boats up there taking crappie you need a parking permit. The fish have no chance. This would increase the fish count. and make the anglers work harder for there fish.

Nothing wrong with the lake. To many fisherman and fish being taken.