Thread: Any truth to the Grand Lake rumors

Originally Posted by dblevens

Doesn't make any sense though to seine crappie out of one lake to put them in another, if you're gonna reduce the population to where you can't catch any fish in the first lake.

Exactly what I'm talking about. No one is moving crappie from one lake to the point that it is hurting the population.

Thanks for all the info...I will say the carp are more abundant than ever and sound like a hog wallow in the shallows but the lake itself is in better shape than ever with more water and spawning grounds and and the angler pressure has fallen off considerably the last 2-3 years...it's still a fine fisheries and one that can never be counted out.

I think they have been sampling Lake Chicot, Pine Bluff, and Wallace, the last couple of years. I could be wrong. I worked down there from 2005 - 2009. Our sample numbers were only second to Lake Conway. We heard all of those rumors. We did collect some fish one year (2007 or 2008) for the hatchery to spawn out to stock in other lakes. We had members of the public watching us during the whole collection process. That year, we had crappie stock back in the lake to make up for the ones taken out.

In Grand Lake, the crappie grow fast and rarely live past age 4.

Lake Chicot is stocked through the nursery pond in Connerly Bayou. The broodstock for that nursery pond are collected in Connerly Bayou.

Any way we can shock the hull out of those Flying Carp and sell them back to China? Just wondering. Heard they are good eating, but I still think I am going to like crappie over flying carp meat..

Originally Posted by CrappiePro

Any way we can shock the hull out of those Flying Carp and sell them back to China? Just wondering. Heard they are good eating, but I still think I am going to like crappie over flying carp meat..

At one point in time, plans were being made to attempt to thin out the Asian carp by gill netting them. I can't remember the reason the project was scraped.

While on the subject of shock sampling, I know there has been some of that going on in this area the last couple of weeks including Grand last week...is now the time to be doing this with a lot of the females still full of eggs...looks to me like it would stress the fish out and possibly limit it's spawning activities???

Gasper the shallower the fish the easier to shock as the fish have less time to move out away from the current. When in deeper water you almost have to Hoover over them and they can move away from the current. It's more common to shock in the spring for this reason.

I like to shock em with a minner and hook!!