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[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Had a decent day, water temp 59-62.   A limit of Crappie and a nice Eye. All crappie were about 10 ft deep in 25ft on a big lay down tree. Walleye was caught trolling, also caught a few decent small mouth. Walleye weighed 6.29 and was right at 26"

[Johnsfolly]

30 minutes ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

A limit of Crappie and a nice Eye. All crappie were about 10 ft deep in 25ft on a big lay down tree. Walleye was caught trolling, also caught a few decent small mouth. Walleye weighed 6.29 and was right at 26"

Congrats on a great fish Fry! That's a very nice walleye for sure!

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

1 minute ago, Johnsfolly said:

Congrats on a great fish Fry! That's a very nice walleye for sure!

Thank you, i donated the meat to my buddy and hes gonna fry them up tomorrow, I have enough crappie for myself in the freezer.  Went back today and caught 11 more crappie, just catch and release today.  IT is odd, used to the crappie i would catch down there were huge, but all these were just 10-11"

[Dutch]

9 hours ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

Thank you, i donated the meat to my buddy and hes gonna fry them up tomorrow, I have enough crappie for myself in the freezer.  Went back today and caught 11 more crappie, just catch and release today.  IT is odd, used to the crappie i would catch down there were huge, but all these were just 10-11"

Nice Looking smallie and big old eye.  Congrats on a good day.

[Bill Babler]

You all are probably way ahead of me, and this might not even apply but I thought I’d bring it up for future information.

First, great mess of fish. 

And this only applies to Missouri. Your possession limit of fish weather in your possession or given away still counts against your possession limit. 

Very poorly stated but weather you keep it or give it away after the second day of fishing you can only harvest and retain a duplicate single day limit of fish, even if it’s in another person’s possession.   You caught them so they technically are counted as yours.  Even if they are immediately consumed they are still over the possession limit  

The reason for the post, I was under the impression that I could give fish to a friend or neighbor and they would not count against my possession limit. I knew I could only harvest a limit per day but thought if I were to give them away it would not effect my possession limit. 

I was wrong. 

This kind of hit home with me when I found out the retention numbers on keeper crappie are so high.  This related to Table Rock, so not sure how it effects Bull. 

None the less, congrats on the great limit of fish. 





 

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

I see an awful lot of guides on , Stockton, Pomme, and Bull. With there clients limits and an extra limit which i assume is the guides. I bet a lot of people dont realize this. Ive seen it with walleye too.  The story will go " Took so and so and his wife out today and managed a limit" and there will be 12 on the stringer instead of 8.

Either way im not hoarding crappie, I decided i dont like keeping them in the freezer more than a few months, so we try to cook them up fairly often. I would rather never even put them in the freezer, just lake to table.

[waterpossum]

2 hours ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

I see an awful lot of guides on , Stockton, Pomme, and Bull. With there clients limits and an extra limit which i assume is the guides. I bet a lot of people dont realize this. Ive seen it with walleye too.  The story will go " Took so and so and his wife out today and managed a limit" and there will be 12 on the stringer instead of 8.

Either way im not hoarding crappie, I decided i dont like keeping them in the freezer more than a few months, so we try to cook them up fairly often. I would rather never even put them in the freezer, just lake to table.

I live on Stockton lake. What you say is spot on. Just me and the wife and 6 or 7 is usually enough unless the daughters visit. Last winter there would be 20 boats over the channel at the 245 bridge hauling them out by the hundreds. Some guys are posting two or three times a week of their 30-45 fish limits.

[Bill Babler]

Yep, those guides would be totally in the wrong. 

On Taney for years guides would let clients catch and keep their personal limit. Against the law. I never let paying clients keep extra.  

Wasn’t pointing a finger, just saying at times the game laws have been hard for me to interpret. 

Good Luck. 




 

[Jerry Rapp]

10 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

the game laws have been hard for me to interpret. 

 

much less enforce

[DADAKOTA]

Now I am confused.  So you give away a limit of fish and they count as yours until the person you gave them to eats them?  Or are you saying that while fishing if you give them to another person they still count against your limit for that day?  Per MDC

Daily and Possession Limits

Find statewide daily and possession limits by fishing season.

You may possess no more than the daily limit of any given species while you are on waters, or on the banks of waters, where daily limits for those species apply. Any species taken into actual possession, unless released unharmed immediately after being caught, shall continue to be included in the daily limit of the taker for the day. 

Where only catch-and-release fishing is allowed, fish must be returned unharmed immediately to the water after being caught.

The possession limit is twice the statewide daily limit. Fish you take and possess must be kept separate or distinctly identifiable from fish taken by another person. If you are away from your catch, the device holding the fish must be plainly labeled with your full name and address.