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[misfitfishingco]

2 minutes ago, Champ188 said:

Amen, and legal or not, you can only eat them once.

Many better eating fish out there IMO!

[Champ188]

2 minutes ago, misfitfishingco said:

Many better eating fish out there IMO!

Yep, and MDC stocks crappie and walleye. 

[Flysmallie]

16 hours ago, Champ188 said:

 

As for fishing during the spawn, I'd be all for closing a certain section of the lake each year on a rotating basis. Not the entire lake and not even half of it ... just a section.

 

I like that idea. 

[misfitfishingco]

On 5/24/2017 at 0:39 PM, Flysmallie said:

I like that idea. 

Flysmallie, 

Just playing devils advocate here. To what benefit would closing off particular sections of the lake from year to year be for the overall success of the fishery? As noted in that article, among many others, biologists from Florida to the UP in Michigan have instituted this idea only to find no benefit whatsoever to the recruitment of progeny in that area closed during the spawn as opposed to those areas that are open across the lake. There are just too many more important factors than the numbers that influence the recruitment for that season (available food, cover, stable water temps, the first winter, predation by other species, genetics etc.) I was reading an interesting study in Michigan where they actually closed a whole lake off to fishing (i believe it was <150 acres) and after the 5 year experiment they found the bass population actually dropped by 45% and furthermore the quality of size also dropped substantially. Very interesting to the recreational biologist in all of us!

[Jerry Rapp]

Champ, they stock crappie?  Really?  Why?

[cheesemaster]

What would the cost of a stocking program of bass in a lake like Table Rock be?  I have no idea how many fish would be appropriate for a stocking program. Any ideas/guesses? 

[Champ188]

1 hour ago, Jerry Rapp said:

Champ, they stock crappie?  Really?  Why?

Jerry, I read in an MDC document online one time about crappie stockings in the James and Kings rivers. I could probably find it again but a quick search right now did not turn it up.

[Ham]

1 hour ago, Jerry Rapp said:

Champ, they stock crappie?  Really?  Why?

Because people like fishing for them. 

[motoman]

26 minutes ago, Ham said:

Because people like fishing for them. 

Whats about dem basses?..........we likes fishin for dems too.:-(

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

There are already more bass than all other game fish combined. Thats my opinion from scuba diving in TR and Bull.  It would really blow some peoples minds if they ever went under for 20 min and seen how many bass there are and even how many keepers.  Very rarely if you make a cast into a brush pile there wont be a few keepers in it.  Getting them to bite is a different story.   We may hit 10-15 brush piles before we run into a school of crappie, but the bass are just everywhere. 

Hopefully we will get some good visibility this summer and i can get some video to share with everyone