Release more crappie with eggs!

[dtrs5kprs]

I dont think that it matters weather the fish has been stocked or whatever, the fact is that the white river lakes have the potential to pump out some record walleye. If I caught a 10lb largemouth out of TR....its going back in....a 15 inch spot is goin on ice though they are a dime a dozen. Busters walleye was a very rare specimen...but according to you the fact that it ate a dink bass means more of them should be knifed...read the thread!

You bet. I tease all the walleye guys about stabbing them in the side like carp and throwing them on the bank. It is my standard reply to walleye reports. Not a fish I have any interest in catching, and a complete waste as a stocking program, for the reason Quill noted.

But...it's a joke. I wouldn't stab an eye any more than I would a bass. Although no harder than they fight they probably should be eliminated.

I do wonder about the impact they have had on bass and panfish populations in the upper end of the lake.

Honestly I hope your jabs about icing bass are just to get at us. If not, it is a terrible way to treat a fragile resource.

[Quillback]

Care to cite your source?

Common sense and observation.

But if you have data showing another species brings in more buck to the local economy, please share.

[Feathers and Fins]

You bet. I tease all the walleye guys about stabbing them in the side like carp and throwing them on the bank. It is my standard reply to walleye reports. Not a fish I have any interest in catching, and a complete waste as a stocking program, for the reason Quill noted.

Interesting, walleye were Native to the White River so why shouldn't efforts be put fourth to maintain them?

[Feathers and Fins]

Common sense and observation.

But if you have data showing another species brings in more buck to the local economy, please share.

So money should be the soul reason to have a fish in the lake?

[J-Doc]

The eye population to bass population has to be like 300:1.

I am simply amazed at how bass are thought of as an anglers "unicorn".

And I'm first and foremost a bass fisherman. Always have been.

But I do fish for crappie and striper. I used to fish for eyes but....I prefer crappie and striper over walleye for table fare.

I caught a 3lb largemouth on Beaver earlier this spring. It had spots on it. So I kept it and filleted it. Because I didn't want it breeding any of those wierd spots into the population as a hereditary trait. I was doing the lake a favor. Some will pile up chordwood and call for me being burned at the stake I bet.

Had it been a smallmouth or trout.....I am sure I would be banned from OAF.

We all fish for what we want. That's fine. Kudos to us and thanks to our armed forces that we still have these freedoms. But anglers should come together and respect each other's quarry.......not bicker and quarrel with each other over opinion (not facts) and personal preferences on species and how we feel competing species interferes with out beloved target species. Fact is, I don't think any species except (includingflying Asian carp and gobies) is affecting other species within our highland reservoirs.

Let's all respect each other and each other's preferred quarry vs griping about it like a bunch of girls. :-)

[Quillback]

So money should be the soul reason to have a fish in the lake?

Nope, that wasn't my point at all. But it is one of the benefits.

[Feathers and Fins]

Just checking, but crappie, walleye stripers catfish hell even carp and gar all bring in money. Even the cursed wakeboard fish that is often seen on top water.

[dtrs5kprs]

Interesting, walleye were Native to the White River so why shouldn't efforts be put fourth to maintain them?

The native fish thing is a true slippery slope. It ends up with bass being poisoned to protect oddball baitfish species.

Basically my beef with stocking walleye in TR is this notion of them being a "bonus" species. TR is unlikely to become a walleye destination, so it strikes me that the money and effort going into the walleye stocking could be better used elsewhere. Even in enforcement, if not stocking.

[Quillback]

Sure they all bring in money, and that is good for the businesses that deal in that kind of stuff.

BTW, what fish is shown on the HLS logo?

[mjk86]

You bet. I tease all the walleye guys about stabbing them in the side like carp and throwing them on the bank. It is my standard reply to walleye reports. Not a fish I have any interest in catching, and a complete waste as a stocking program, for the reason Quill noted.

But...it's a joke. I wouldn't stab an eye any more than I would a bass. Although no harder than they fight they probably should be eliminated.

I do wonder about the impact they have had on bass and panfish populations in the upper end of the lake.

Honestly I hope your jabs about icing bass are just to get at us. If not, it is a terrible way to treat a fragile resource.

well ya I only fish table rock once a year. And the same few points in kimberling but ya if its a 15" bass or any other legal fish save catfish its getting knifed. Oddly enough they replenish themselves nicely. I wouldnt consider it to be fragile. Bass are highly adaptable and prolific.