Release more crappie with eggs!

[dtrs5kprs]

a. lot of these people on this thread think nothing of sight fishing bass. Then jump on someone for keeping them to eat. I got to wonder do you know what happens most of the time when you pull that bass out of that bed ? The blue gill and sunfish race in there and make short work of the eggs if they are present at that time same. applies to the fry. I know the bass goes back but at times that is before the bed has been spawned.

I don't intentionally bed fish much. Can't see them. Only way to get around catching one off a bed is to close the season in the spring. That doesn't even work up north, fish just wait until the season opens and spawn then.

[dtrs5kprs]

It used to be as good as Stockton. And better for bigger crappie.

Still has big ones, just not enough of them. There has been a good crappie bite around the deep docks, according to a friend who guides.

[dtrs5kprs]

Might as well give up brotha', You can't argue with close minded person(s). Remember all hail the bass...and if nothing else is biting you can always catch them.

Funny thing is there are several bass guys who have posted supporting reasonable harvest. We're just not cool with killing everything that measures, of any species, which seems to be the desire of more than a few.

[5bites]

I don't intentionally bed fish much. Can't see them. Only way to get around catching one off a bed is to close the season in the spring. That doesn't even work up north, fish just wait until the season opens and spawn then.

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.

[J.M.]

I know what hypocrisy is. Is people who don't you to keep a bass and thank it is alright to keep crappie or don't you to keep crappie but bass are alright and the ones that want every striper in there lake kept and killed. We all that fish have a bit of hypocrisy. The same people who don't want you to keep bass will take one off the nest and take it sometimes miles to a weight in and thank it is alright. I have not kept a bass in years, but the mdc says you can keep 5 (I thank) they say you can keep 15 crappie. They should know what the lake will produce. JMHO

[5bites]

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.

[abkeenan]

I don't like to see ANY FISH SPECIES over harvested. ANY. A neighbor of ours fishes in early spring for crappie and says that he will get his limit....run back to his dock, unload his 15 and go back and get another limit. He does that for days if not weeks in March-April. This guy is local and is a nice guy and all but I certainly look down on that. He is in his 70's and that probably just reflects the type of behavior for his time period but I could call the game warden on him if I wanted to but never would. I would call the warden on a person I don't know with over their limit of ANYTHING from fish to frogs to things with fur.

[mjk86]

Funny thing is there are several bass guys who have posted supporting reasonable harvest. We're just not cool with killing everything that measures, of any species, which seems to be the desire of more than a few.

Dont forget that your also not cool with people posting pictures of fish that they intend to keep, well at least pike/bass.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Still has big ones, just not enough of them. There has been a good crappie bite around the deep docks, according to a friend who guides.

I'm sure it does.

But it's nothing like it was when I was fishing back in the 70's and early 80's.

[dtrs5kprs]

I don't like to see ANY FISH SPECIES over harvested. ANY. A neighbor of ours fishes in early spring for crappie and says that he will get his limit....run back to his dock, unload his 15 and go back and get another limit. He does that for days if not weeks in March-April. This guy is local and is a nice guy and all but I certainly look down on that. He is in his 70's and that probably just reflects the type of behavior for his time period but I could call the game warden on him if I wanted to but never would. I would call the warden and a person I don't know with over their limit of ANYTHING from fish to frogs to things with fur.

Indeed. There is a fine difference in the definition of renewable if it takes years to grow another one. Might be different if stocked, as with walleye and slick fish. They get replaced by the truck load.