Thread: Culling / Catch and release

Originally Posted by Buckrub

I always wondered how they'd check for bream. I mean........I can't imagine them counting to 50 on a hot day.......

And besides, the crappie limit should be 30 with a 10" minimum statewide. NO REASON for the 20/30 deal.

There are reasons for that, some places have more fish , less pressure. Why do we need more than 20? I usually can dress a limit and have a fish fry for the camp (4 to 10 ) folks usually. If the commission took time to adjust limits for every lake it would be a pain just to write the book. Some lakes really need a 10'' length where others don't. They tried it on Nimrod Lake and then shelfed the idea. They did'nt do much to enforce and it did not work . We are one of the few lakes that produce too many small Crappie most year classes.

Bull shoals and Norfork have had length limits(Crappie 10"- limit of 15)(kentucky and smallmouth bass) before other lakes in Arkansas.Bull shoals started the fish cover project back in ti late 70's early 80's by some local bass clubs and the Game and fish.Awsome fishery!!! Should have been on the list for some of the best crappie fishing lakes. Unreal walleye,Smallmouth,kentucky,spotted bass,not to mention the largemouth fishing that the BASS Elite found out last spring and returnng this spring. Home of several state records!!!

Originally Posted by jackie53

Bull shoals and Norfork have had length limits(Crappie 10"- limit of 15)(kentucky and smallmouth bass) before other lakes in Arkansas.Bull shoals started the fish cover project back in ti late 70's early 80's by some local bass clubs and the Game and fish.Awsome fishery!!! Should have been on the list for some of the best crappie fishing lakes. Unreal walleye,Smallmouth,kentucky,spotted bass,not to mention the largemouth fishing that the BASS Elite found out last spring and returnng this spring. Home of several state records!!!

I thought that was same fish?

kentucky,spotted bass.Yes it is.Miss placed the comma!!!! and I believe a 7 lber out of bull is still the current state record.Nothing to catch a 4 lber up their just another( spotted bass/Kentucky).

They just did a study on lake Conway to see if a 9" minimum length limit would be beneficial. I think this has something to do with the decline of mature fish(3.5-6yr) since the draw-down, if I read the report right? Im not sure how this will help, there doesnt really seem to be a shortage of small(or large) fish in Conway. Either way, I dont think I will ever take a fish out of the livewell once I put him in, except to filet him! If he doesn't meet my standards, I throw him back unless he is hooked bad.


C.J.

Originally Posted by luvpt

The females are slap full of eggs right now. It makes sense to cull all the very large females to #1) keep their "big fish" DNA in the gene pool; #2) renew the resourse. There is no point whatsoever right now to keep a big sow unless you just have to have it mounted. The "eaters" make better fillets anyway..... Do our sport a favor and release those big mammas after you've had the thrill of catchin' em and then be able to keep this resourse renewed for both us and our children on down the trail.

X2. Threw ALL of our fish back yesterday, big and small. Didn't need em, so why kill em!!! If you need em, eat em, but if ya don't, why NOT chunk em back? JMHO


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Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd

Why do you think they call it minnow pause?

OMG I gotta go pee.