Thread: Is 30 to many?

I think bag limit and size limit matter. Our local reservoir used to be middle of the road for crappie. Several years ago they reduced the limit from 30 to 15 a day and made the size limit 10 in (some of us want to see the 10 in moved to 11) The last 3 years have seen great rewards, so much so that my yearly trips to Weiss are no more. We have the best kept secret in the south.

I think that if we would think outside of the box we would be surprised of the size of some of the crappie on the bg. Big fish like bigger bait put you on a deep diving crank get out in 18-25fow many out their over 3# Just got to get out and look for them big ens you want catch near the number but them big ens are out their. Have no problem with increase on size or decrease on limit.

I will agree Slabprowler. My personal best was 16.5 inches , 2lbs 12 ounces. It came out of the Goose Pond area. Guntersville is also mention in the Alabama state record as a tie with a 4lbs plus fish.

I agree that an increase in minimum length anywhere from 10-12 on the big G and a smaller creel limit of 15 or 20 would help the fishery. I don't think it would be a problem to selectively change the regs for individual bodies of water. Big G could certainly handle it. As for how MS does it, my daughter is considering going to MSU next year and we did a campus visit earlier. They have a sizeable body of water on Campus that the state uses to test their white crappie programs and experiments on. MS is much better funded and active on their crappie management!

Lake Wiess has a 10" minimum with 30 fish a day creel limit.

okay so ive researched. im gonna have to agree with slabprowler, this week im going to pull 10xd strike king crank baits in 50 feet of water and try to get some large crappie suspended in the 30-40 foot range. Ill have pics later.

I was just pondering on some big fish thoughts today I don't remember what the size and creel limit was then .but back in the middle 90's I caught 16"-18" crappie at woods reservoir inTn I think they have made adjustments on it since then.but now that I live in the closes state to heaven (lol) I fish here and don't ever go up their not sure what they catching up their now .should be some big erns though.��

Originally Posted by jwoneal

Lake Wiess has a 10" minimum with 30 fish a day creel limit.

I mainly fish Weiss, I would like to see it moved to a 11" minimum and 20 fish limit. But until the game wardens are more active on the lake it doesn't matter what it is. I see people hauling out fish a lot smaller than 10" and going back out for a second trip in the same day. Cedar Bluff and Leesburg both no longer have a marine police officer on the lake, so no ones enforcing the current laws. It's sad..