well looks like the carp anglers are not the only ones

[Flysmallie]

2 hours ago, MoCarp said:

.(you should know my posts set up planned responses 😉) its like setting up the hitter with fast balls out of the strike zone then tossing a change up

 

Yes we all know you are the master baiter. 

[MOPanfisher]

1 hour ago, MoCarp said:

 

the way carp feed and the typical bolt/hair rig you just don't see deeply hooked fish almost always hooked in the bottom lip, as far as Muskies, there was a great spat about them in

MN this year, so many blame them for bad walleye or pan fishing, when the biggest reason is too many anglers taking home too many fish dinners..at one time they blamed walleyes and tiger muskies/pike for declining crappie fishing in stockton...IMHO the fishing was better when we had pike/tiger muskies in stockton...common carp sure ran bigger and we saw less of those 2# gizzard shad

a bit off topic but MN is doing a long term study on sunfish... dropping the bag limits, and a 8" or bigger length limit on some waters... early results are promising (Trophy panfish are a fav of mine)

I figured you would rise to that bait.  I don't ever Rember deep hooking a carp, even when we trot lined for them.  I can't say that having muskie has ever had the slightest negative effect on crappie populations, seems to be more about the spawn success.  Muskie on the other hand have a negative effect upon my supply of Shad Raps.  They have some sort of vendetta against me I think.  Truthfully I don't lose a lot of lures to them but every $10 shad rap they takes annoys the stink out of me.  One day I will get a legal sized one into the boat and then the shoe will be on the other foot when I eat him.  Or at least try.

[mreed81]

6 hours ago, MoCarp said:

easy ban bFing at night on muskie waters...personally I'd like to see C&R on all smallmouth and ban gigging on select Ozark streams as far as on post....(you should know my posts set up planned responses 😉) its like setting up the hitter with fast balls out of the strike zone then tossing a change up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 At best that description with the baseball pitcher is a bit far off good sir... That sounds more like the definition of the word "troll". But to each his own; some say potato and others say potato lol

[MoCarp]

though this proposal failed, the Bfing of muskies is blamed on mistaken fish ID, and the Fish & Wildlife in that state is developing signage to combat 'mistakes" if and when the shot Muskies keep showing up you can count on stricter measures. its an issue...earlier this year a double digit LMB was shot in Oklahoma, I am trying to locate the pic...the issue is a handful of people can greatly impact a fishery limiting this style of harvest in some waters is a viable fisheries management tool.

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The one proposal not approved would have prohibited the use of archery equipment for taking nongame fishes on a section of Lake James (F15). The proposal was designed to protect muskellunge during the spawning season, said Doug Besler, mountain region fisheries supervisor.

 

“There is a growing interest on Lake James in bowfishing, the shooting of non-game fish,” Besler said. “At the upper end of Lake James there is a large population of muskie (a game fish). Bow anglers target carp and other nongame fish, but there have been muskie that were mistaken.”

Besler said instead of making a rule change, the commission is taking an intermediate step by working with the muskie club and the bowfishing club to develop signage at the lake.   https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2017/02/22/wildlife-commission-approves-hunting-fishing-rules/98196272/