Old limits…

[MoCarp]

Found this in another group I’m in thought I’d share

[Quillback]

Nice find!

[trouty mouth]

Any idea about when this was issued? I didn't see a date stamp. 

What's the history with the creation of The Lake of the Ozarks and the experimental period?

It would have been wild times making sure your bluegill pinched past the 5" mark.

[Flysmallie]

4 minutes ago, trouty mouth said:

Any idea about when this was issued? I didn't see a date stamp. 

 

Says January 1941. 

[FishnDave]

Very interesting!

You can keep 100 minnows!  Community fish fry!! 😬

Good luck with those 7" crappies.

I wonder what they considered "White Perch"?  I looked up White Perch...and it says the were first found in Missouri in 1983, and last sampled in Missouri in 2008.

[BilletHead]

45 minutes ago, FishnDave said:

Very interesting!

You can keep 100 minnows!  Community fish fry!! 😬

Good luck with those 7" crappies.

I wonder what they considered "White Perch"?  I looked up White Perch...and it says the were first found in Missouri in 1983, and last sampled in Missouri in 2008.

             I would lump then into the category that end up in a five-gallon bucket that fade out and are not cannot be identified by the end of the fishing day. 

[trouty mouth]

5 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

Says January 1941. 

I can't believe I missed that one. Haha

Wikipedia says that Bagnell dam was finished in 1931. I bet 1941 was prime fishing time. 

[fishinwrench]

7 hours ago, trouty mouth said:

I can't believe I missed that one. Haha

Wikipedia says that Bagnell dam was finished in 1931. I bet 1941 was prime fishing time. 

I've seen old black/white photos from the '50's that would blow your mind.   Dudes with old steel rods, dressed as though they just walked out of church, standing next to stringers 10 feet long, that are just LOADED with 5 pounders.....and a few that look to be pushing 8+ . 

An acquaintance of mine has Polaroid pics of 2 1/2 dump trucks full of dead Walleye and assorted other fish...... Casualties of a back pumping catastrophe not long after the construction of Truman dam.  Those fish were spread over a nearby farmers field and tilled into the soil.    Allegedly the COE had to foot the bill for the MDC's entire walleye hatchery program because of that. 

[tjm]

On 11/17/2022 at 10:29 AM, FishnDave said:

I wonder what they considered "White Perch"?  I looked up White Perch...and it says the were first found in Missouri in 1983, and last sampled in Missouri in 2008.

From Wikipedia - "The name "White perch" is sometimes applied to the white crappie."   I have also seen this and heard it used that way in the past.

I wonder if the regulations didn't just use the term to distinguish white and black crappie as a common name at the time; like they included "Black Perch" and "Jack Salmon".   The "black perch" thing particularly puzzles me in that MDC and others today use it to mean green sunfish, but, I heard it used to denote rock bass when I was a little kid. I have seen black bluegill and black rock bass but never a black green sunfish.

[FishnDave]

28 minutes ago, tjm said:

I have seen black bluegill and black rock bass but never a black green sunfish.