Thread: Cutting the limit yet again.

we have had the same gates since the beginning . the biggest change that we have had is the increase of crappie fishermen and (remember when most older men cat fished and the rest were bass catchers) The habitat has declined to a fraction of what it once was . Add this to losing water depth by filling in with silt and lowering water levels it is no way the fishing would remain constant .fifty percent (just a guess ) of the spawning grounds are dry year after year as compared to the sixties . Will post some old pictures of bean creek(Enid ) when it was solid trees and getting through it was difficult . we now have people skiing and pulling tubes in the same area . Deal with it . Technology has played a part in the harvest as well and no one is ready to give that up what they have lol . I applaud the D.W.F.P for what they have done to keep the lakes as well as they have . Sure they could do more but the state/federal legislature is not throwing a lot of dollars at the problems . jmo .

Originally Posted by eagle 1

we have had the same gates since the beginning . the biggest change that we have had is the increase of crappie fishermen and (remember when most older men cat fished and the rest were bass catchers) The habitat has declined to a fraction of what it once was . Add this to losing water depth by filling in with silt and lowering water levels it is no way the fishing would remain constant .fifty percent (just a guess ) of the spawning grounds are dry year after year as compared to the sixties . Will post some old pictures of bean creek(Enid ) when it was solid trees and getting through it was difficult . we now have people skiing and pulling tubes in the same area . Deal with it . Technology has played a part in the harvest as well and no one is ready to give that up what they have lol . I applaud the D.W.F.P for what they have done to keep the lakes as well as they have . Sure they could do more but the state/federal legislature is not throwing a lot of dollars at the problems . jmo .

Your right coach

are the fish thick below the dam from going through or are they thick from running upriver and getting stopped by the dam?

coming out I would say, I think some do come back up stream sometimes but not near what comes out. This past winter is a good example of that at Grenada, very little water coming through the gates during the winter because of an early drawdown. Know some guys that are dang good snaggers, know every rock and eddy in the spillway, and they caught (snagged) very few this past winter. Another example is the lower lake at Sardis, the fishing in it is good in the cold weather and the gates are open pretty good. Is because there is current, don't think so, think its because the supply of fish has increased due to them coming through the gates.

Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd

are the fish thick below the dam from going through or are they thick from running upriver and getting stopped by the dam?

don't think going up river is the case

G, lots of great points. Can for sure agree with more fishermen and technology.

I love these boards, they have great information, but when people put picture after picture of limits and huge crappie up, where is the internet fishermen going to go? Mississippi

I applaud the guys that will help an out of state guy get in the ball park, that's what it's about.

But when our own guys get on here with every picture of every fish they catch and post it for the world to see it just draws more and more people to our lakes. I have noticed many have figured this out and are not posting as many.

Hey dodge man, I originally came to this site to see pictures of crappie and hear about there success story. I admit some post sting but that's kinda what this place is all about.

Now who won?