Thread: Weiss Lake - What needs to be done to make it better ?

Just some food for thought (My opinion)

1) You can have the best genetic's, food plot's etc. for deer. But they'll never reach their full potential without the most important part of becoming a trophy buck. AGE!
2) Yearling or 1st year of breeding status for doe's, usually have only one fawn. Older doe's generally have twins and even triplett's. There again, age plays an important part.
3)Searches on the internet vary, but seemed to be consistent that older female crappie layed significantly more eggs. Some examples that I found were that a 10"crappie would lay 10000, where a 14" would layed up to 200000. This was probably the most extreme that I found. Still I think you'll find generally the same results showing that the older larger layed the most.
4)If you left all the female crappie in the lake for 1 to 2 years till they reached 12", just think how many more tens of thousands of eggs would be laid rather than filleted. Again age is part of the formula.
5)Females are only present for a short period of time at the nest. It's the males that has the responsibility to see the yearling's reach the age to where they can survive on their on. Catching the males off the spawning grounds plays a big part in the spawns success or failure to a point.
6) Nothing you come up with will work without enforcement. The lake has got to be patrolled and everyone kept in check.
7) Wild one here! Make it illegal to catch and release striper's on Weiss. Donate all the meat to the food banks at the very least!!!