Thread: Almost hate to bring this up again

I was thinking on the way home from fishing last weekend that now would be the perfect time go establish a 12" Size limit over there. Based on what I caught that should be vary feasible.

Not my area of expertise. But, you made me wonder if there were ever slot limits on crappie.

Not that I have heard of. I just would like to see this lake be on par with some of those Mississippi lakes

Originally Posted by REDBOAT

Not that I have heard of. I just would like to see this lake be on par with some of those Mississippi lakes

Miss. fish are larger due to genetics. NC does not have a method of testing genetics. When genetics info is need, NC send their fish to SC for testing. An example of genitics is the Wateree crappie that grow to 2lbs in 2 years.

The way to increase growth rate is to remove a lot of fish to allow the ones that remain in the lake with abundant food to grow faster and larger. Removing size and quantity limits would result in larger average size fish remaining; therefore , over time the fish would become larger due to genetics.

Monk

a slot would be biologically sound, but you will find so much grief from fisherman that the wildlife would never consider changing it because there rules are not biologically based anymore they are political, now if the gov liked to crappie fish or hundreds of us showed up to the meetings things would be different, infisherman did a study many years ago about slot limits and found it was one of the very best long term ways to have a healthy sustainable population of larger crappie in a heavily fished environment, while a minumum length limit will go in cycles, but how many here would actually like a 10-12'' slot, keep 20 above or below but none in the 10-12'' range, then you would have to actually enforce it.

on a side note the internet probably hurts the population at jordan more than any other single thing. and miss. has a 12'' liimit cause most of there fish are whites and whites are naturally longer than a black, a 10'' black and a 12'' white will wiegh real close to the same and takes about the same time to grow.

Gobbler is correct about internet hurting population.Since the fish are starting to come back on Jordan all you see is "we limited out today on Jordan".Seems to me they can't be left alone to populate.Too many fishermen have to go catch all they can every day they can.There is nothing wrong with fishermen keeping enough to eat,but you don't have to take 40 every time you go.10 boats 40 fish 5 days a week 2000 fish.It's simple math.

Originally Posted by CAPP

Gobbler is correct about internet hurting population.Since the fish are starting to come back on Jordan all you see is "we limited out today on Jordan".Seems to me they can't be left alone to populate.Too many fishermen have to go catch all they can every day they can.There is nothing wrong with fishermen keeping enough to eat,but you don't have to take 40 every time you go.10 boats 40 fish 5 days a week 2000 fish.It's simple math.

Not only that but telling every lurker out there ,even the ones who have never even been to Jordan exactly where to go to get their 4 people per boat limit.Hard to believe after complaining for 3 years about the decline of the population and not being able to catch a keeper.Guess we can just blame it on the NCWRC when we can't catch a keeper next year.

If it helps I fished up in the Eno today. I think a 10" Crappie can become a 12" though. I think out of the 20 I took home. Most were around 11".
For my Eno report I had 4 on the live well that were released.