Table Rock Annual Report

[96 CHAMP]

https://fishing.mdc.mo.gov/reports/table-rock-lake

[Champ188]

I'm not anti-MDC or anti-AGFC and I think I've established that over the years. Still, since MDC is charged with both maintaining the fishery and monitoring/reporting its status, does anyone really believe they would come out and say the bass population is sub-par when they have no intention of doing any supplemental stocking?

[176champion]

Looks like the same report they reported last year only they changed the dates on the report for this one.

[96 CHAMP]

Welcome to the world of political fishing management. 

[magicwormman]

I noticed there is no mention of Electrofishing surveys for Largemouth????

[merc1997 Bo]

how they ever know what the lake wide bass population might be when they do not shock lake wide???  notice that there is not a comprehensive detailed report about where they shocked?  if we have as many bass as they claim, then why is it that you can spend all day running a graph and see very few??  wish i had kept all the graph paper that i burned up back when this lake was full of fish.  most would not even believe what they where looking at.

yes, if you go and shock the most populated area of the lake and use that as what the entire lake is, you can make it seem like there is an abundance of bass in the lake.  i know many on here think that catching 15 keepers in a trip is really doing well, but not by what we used to catch.  in the fall and winter, we consistently would catch 80 to 100 keepers in one day, and that is with 2 to three people in the boat.  that is not counting shorts and whites caught on the same trip.

after the fish kill and no stocking help, coupled with how many more people are fishing the lake, i seriously doubt we could ever expect to see fish populations anywhere near what we had before the fish kill.  however, with stocking help, i fell those levels could be attained again, and it sure would not hurt to stock some crappie while they are at it.

the last time that i can recall the mdc doing any shocking in the eagle rock area was 1971.  if they have ever done anything since, everyone missed it, and the boat dock usually knew when they were going to be shocking.

the mdc does some things right, but are also lacking in effort in other areas.  great example is winter gigging of bass in the meramac river.  a friend of mine that fishes that river a lot started noticing bass he was catching with gig marks and a noticeable decline in populations in holes.  he reported the problem to the mdc on more than one occasion but there never was any time and effort to set up and watch for the giggers.  what that means to me is that the mdc does not see any value of that fishing resource.

what do the agents do anymore?  i could not even tell you the last time i saw one on the lake, and back in the day john frye and charlie marrs were everywhere.  i've seen them many times at roaring river checking, on the lake checking, and in the woods checking.  how is it that we have more fisherman and more hunters, but rarely ever see an agent out working??  just asking.

i need to add bryant ward to the list of agents out working and visible.

bo

[Cobra 188D]

I know this is going to sound stupid but I grew up in Michigan and was entirely around here during the "fish kill" what exactly was the reason they killed fish in table rock and how did they kill them without killing all the fish?

[Cobra 188D]

Was not around here during fish kill* auto spell got me 

[mixermarkb]

There was a virus that effected the largemouth bass (not sure about spots and smallmouth) in the late 90's early 2000's, that killed a ton of fish in the white river lakes, especially Table Rock. Bo and Bill could probably give a lot more details. 

[Ketchup]

The WORST thing they could do is to report that the fishery is sub-par. That would be a drop in revenue for the area.