Bit of a Lake Report

[Bgctrading]

Are walleye 18 inches minimum on table rock?

[Ron Burgundy]

6 hours ago, Champ188 said:

Plus, upper-White River guides seem to be growing in numbers each year and they are posting pic after pic on Facebook of super sized females getting their sides sawed off day in and day out. 

Yes very frustrating!

[Ron Burgundy]

3 hours ago, DADAKOTA said:

Why not close the season on walleye during the spawn.  For that matter bass too.

AGFC already said they won’t do that , they say we stock so no reason close for spawn ….I don’t keep anything over 23” year around  not just in the spring time . 

[Bill Babler]

I have a clarification on the crappie harvest. 99% of keeper crappie are kept. Not 99% caught. I thought that sounded strange the way I wrote it. 

Back to grammar school🤪🤪

On another front Shane and his team are in the middle of a 2 year flathead study, with the results being very good. Totally under utilization of this hard fighting delicious fish. 

He told me divers are finding them in 75% of the structure they planted several years ago. 

I think we all pretty much suspected that. 

He also pointed out that yes they are stocking walleye in the James River if they have a surplus. I believe he mentioned 90,000. 



 

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

3 hours ago, Bgctrading said:

Are walleye 18 inches minimum on table rock?

yes it is

[Champ188]

22 hours ago, DADAKOTA said:

Why not close the season on walleye during the spawn.  For that matter bass too.

HECK YES!!!! There are reasons (beyond the short fishing season) that northern fisheries are full of fish. Many of them are closed to fishing during the spawn. I have said for years, and so have others here, that a big step in the right direction would be to close just a portion of the lake to fishing during the spawn. The areas could be rotated every year so as not to unfairly penalize anyone. 

[Champ188]

18 hours ago, Ron Burgundy said:

AGFC already said they won’t do that , they say we stock so no reason close for spawn ….I don’t keep anything over 23” year around  not just in the spring time . 

I worked for the statewide newspaper in Arkansas for 35 years and often covered meetings of the AGFC commissioners. The staff (biologists) and the commissioners themselves are far more concerned about keeping all of the user groups happy than in doing right by the state's fisheries. Just my opinion. 

[Hunter53]

Maybe a compromise could be absolutely no tournaments, no harvest and immediate release from April 1st through end of May. People could still have fun fishing but bass would be released immediately to go back to the beds.

Walleye deal would have to be at a different time of the year but I can't say when as I have no idea when they spawn down there.

[Dutch]

31 minutes ago, Hunter53 said:

Maybe a compromise could be absolutely no tournaments, no harvest and immediate release from April 1st through end of May. People could still have fun fishing but bass would be released immediately to go back to the beds.

Walleye deal would have to be at a different time of the year but I can't say when as I have no idea when they spawn down there.

Good luck with that.  While you are at it lets make sight fishing illegal and put an attention getting fine or jail time as punishment.

[DADAKOTA]

Make open season the same as black bass in the rivers