Release more crappie with eggs!

[Ham]

Any stripers that are in TR are from Holiday Island up and will stay there. Why? Because of the trout. There is nothing a striper would rather eat than a rainbow trout. Period.

Apparently LMB and walleye are kind of fond of them as well.

[5bites]

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.

[Ham]

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.

I've got a jet that says I can go further up than that.

[5bites]

Oh I'm sure you can hit the dam! Lol. I know you can go beyond beaver town but I haven't yet. I need to get some lessons on running up there. Sometimes it's just nice to go up there to see it. Kinda like we did a few weeks ago when we went to the bridges.

[J-Doc]

Any stripers that are in TR are from Holiday Island up and will stay there. Why? Because of the trout. There is nothing a striper would rather eat than a rainbow trout. Period.

There have been reports on this forum of stripers caught in the lake. Not up river.

I can't recall the last report but it's been within the last year.

[dtrs5kprs]

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

A lot of us thought so until the last couple of weeks. Disappointing. Either C and R has lost ground, or never was fully embraced.

[dtrs5kprs]

There have been reports on this forum of stripers caught in the lake. Not up river.

I can't recall the last report but it's been within the last year.

There was a big one caught up at Baxter the first year of the umbrella frenzy. Mark used to have a pic of it in the shop. Want to say Dick Collier caught it, but might be off on that part. That is about as far down lake as I remember seeing one.

No reason there can't be a striper lake next to a bass lake, but also no reason to add stripers everywhere. Plenty of nearby opportunities to catch one without tinkering with TR.

[dtrs5kprs]

Good, I am glad to hear the food base is there. You mention about Pomme being managed differently, to what specifically are you referring, the LM length limit of 13"? Each lake normally does have a "trophy" species included, i.e. Pomme has Muskie, Truman has Hybrids, Stockton - Walleye, some lakes have more than one simply due to chance. Such as Truman, it has hybrids, big catfish, spoonbill, walleye etc.. Honestly I am surprised that MDC hasn't gone the route of adding an upper predator to TR, such as hybrids.

Yep. The lower length at Pomme is what I had in mind, and it seems to have been a good fit.

No reason MDC can't regulate various lakes differently, just post the regs and enforce them.

[5bites]

A lot of us thought so until the last couple of weeks. Disappointing. Either C and R has lost ground, or never was fully embraced.

Doesn't that prove my assumption (actually it's proven) correct? Whatever percentage it is that keeps them, it isn't hurting Table Rock lake.

I still see very few being kept including and especially talking about the people on this board.

[Feathers and Fins]

C&R is let me see if I can say this right (over-believed in)

I know how many anglers I see all the time that are buying Minnows, Worms, Crickets and on and on. I typically ask them how they have been doing and see the pictures of all species of fish some multispecies on the same stringer. I would guess that those weekenders or when- they- have- timers, outnumber Bass anglers by a very considerable margin. They are keeping everything they catch.

What we see on Forums and our own little circles of friends has been truly eye-opening to me in the last year. I thought C&R was the norm for bass but its because I hung out on here and a few other places and my friends practice it. But the vast majority of the public DOES NOT from what I have seen.

You can argue it to death on a forum with a strong C&R presence but I will tell you this. THREADS LIKE THIS WILL RUN OFF PEOPLE and THOSE PEOPLE ARE THE ONES WHO WILL KEEP. You may say good-riddance to them then. But Hey Mr Ego, those people may well have been lead to C&R or at least a form of it if you would have talked to them civilly and brought up C&R in other topics then a post where they had a great day and wanted to share it. You just ruined there joy because your Ego and Belief is more important to you than stopping for a minute saying Nice fish and when given the chance bring it up and get a discussion going that doesn't take away from a persons great experience.

If you practice C&R state why you do it and what the Biologist say explain to people about selective harvest and proper revival of deep caught bass or warmer month caught bass hell all species for that matter could use some good threads on how to help them survive capture. But to BLAST people for keeping fish they legally are allowed to does more damage to this sport/hobby then you can imagine. Most people do not want to be belittled or crucified for what they enjoy doing.

Let that sink in a minute.