Mega Longear Sunfish

[MoCarp]

7 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Jumping from keeping fish in a now fairly regulated harvest system and comparing that to unregulated market hunting or slavery is a big jump. Just don't buy your catastrophe mindset for every species that someone can selectively harvest. If people cannot find longear sunfish they just aren't trying to find them. Gravel mining, bank erosion, cattle in streams, water quality degradation, etc., are far more likely to decimate this species than selective harvest. I won't shame someone on this site for using a legal method to harvest fish for the table. I see no evidence that Huntingducks117 is out there filling trash cans with fish or wantonly wasting these resources.

my point is laws that are accepted change ..just because its legal doesn't justify doing it...are long ears in danger...NO....are habitat degradation an issue YES!

 

 

5 hours ago, Quillback said:

Actually it's all about carp and the bowfishing of them.  

The bream in general are underfished in these highland impoundments.  

New sunfish management research is being done lower bag limits and even length limits to promote larger panfish sizes, many articles have been written on this subject....I am not a fan of stabbing bass and walleyes ether

 

 

[MoCarp]

stabbing methods targets the largest,

kinda like shooting 10 point bucks with a spotlight, "Fair Chase"

[Huntingducks117]

I bet you can't find any pictures of people harvesting large walleye or musky with a rod and reel on google. Smh. Still waiting to see pictures of large Longear, since that's what this post is about. 

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, MoCarp said:

stabbing methods targets the largest,

kinda like shooting 10 point bucks with a spotlight, "Fair Chase"

                Twist the original pot to try to crawl out of the hole you dug and fell into. Think before you shoot off your mouth is a good thing we all need to adhere to. One of these days your hol may be deep enough there will be too much dirt falling in and you cant get back out,

   BilletHead

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

You are living in a fairy tale if you think spear fishing is easier, Ive caught way more walleye by rod and real than spearfishing for them and the same for crappie. You have limited time under water to get the job done. Not to mention the effort that goes into diving.  Dragging all that dive gear from the truck to the boat, taking it on and off 5 different times. IT is twice the work as sitting in a boat trolling around waiting for them to bite.   Diving is a very physically demanding sport. 

 

[Huntingducks117]

9 minutes ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

You are living in a fairy tale if you think spear fishing is easier, Ive caught way more walleye by rod and real than spearfishing for them and the same for crappie. You have limited time under water to get the job done. Not to mention the effort that goes into diving.  Dragging all that dive gear from the truck to the boat taking, it on and off 5 different times. IT is twice the work as sitting in a boat trolling around waiting for them to bite.   Diving is a very physically demanding sport. 

 

My thoughts exactly. I've caught way more and bigger fish with rod and reel.  

[MOPanfisher]

Wasn't the original.post about a big long ear sunfish?  I admit I am a little concerned that the bluegill, long ears, greenies, and various others, and such are on the verge of being decimated, we should act immediately to protect those dwindling populations by instituting a 12 inch MLL on all such critters, and ban all spearfishing for bluegill, long ears, green sunfish and shad.

[Devan S.]

11 minutes ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

You are living in a fairy tale if you think spear fishing is easier, Ive caught way more walleye by rod and real than spearfishing for them and the same for crappie. You have limited time under water to get the job done. Not to mention the effort that goes into diving.  Dragging all that dive gear from the truck to the boat, taking it on and off 5 different times. IT is twice the work as sitting in a boat trolling around waiting for them to bite.   Diving is a very physically demanding sport. 

 

I started to write this same thing. Not to mention the thousands of anglers on every lake casting a line keeping those walleye vs. the very small population that spearfish and the fact they get to keep half the daily limit and they have to abide by a season.

[MOPanfisher]

Just now, Devan S. said:

I started to write this same thing. Not to mention the thousands of anglers on every lake casting a line keeping those walleye vs. the very small population that spearfish and the fact they get to keep half the daily limit and they have to abide by a season.

Yesterday's adventure with walleye showed me there are way more big walleye in the lakes than would be suspected.

[Quillback]

3 hours ago, MoCarp said:

my point is laws that are accepted change ..just because its legal doesn't justify doing it...are long ears in danger...NO....are habitat degradation an issue YES!

 

 

New sunfish management research is being done lower bag limits and even length limits to promote larger panfish sizes, many articles have been written on this subject....I am not a fan of stabbing bass and walleyes ether

 

Where?  I bet not on any of our Ozark impoundments.  Very unusual to see anyone bream fishing on Table Rock or Beaver, I'm talking serious bream fisherman, not folks sitting in a lawn chair watching a cork.  I know there are some out there, but they aren't putting a dent in the population.  Spear fishermen are even less of a concern.