Yo-Yo's....Like or Dislike???

Didn't wanna start a fight, but I'm seeing a few opinions coming out on this and we all should have our opinions. Here's a solution, lets just get the G&FC to stock more crappie and it won't matter? They really hit our lakes hard. While on Dequeen lake this spring I seen several newly made 2x2 boards with like 4 pegs to hang for Yo-Yo's on. If added up they ain't no telling how many they screw gunned into the timber in East and West Cedar coves. I couldn't help but think how many crappie were taken out because of them. I seen a ton of them on Pine Creek lake and Gillham lake as well. I'm sure they hit all the lakes with them just as hard. Dequeen lake for instance has most of the lakes main lake brush in East and West Cedar coves so it would be easy to hit em hard by just hanging in those coves alone. Most all my brush is out in open water because of that reason on Dequeen lake. I just keep saying we need more stocking where it won't matter.

Oh no here we go again. As long as they are used properly I do not have a problem with them. Most people I know including myself got their start crappie fishing by running yoyos. I havent touched one in 4 or 5 years, but I would hate to know someone would try to take that option away. When I fished with them there were older guys saying that it was not really fishing then I quit using them and started trolling. Guess what I caught grief for that. So I say fish with what you want to as long as you follow the rules and enjoy doing it. I hope this is the last time we have to beat this horse, but give it a couple weeks and we can do this all over again.

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Originally Posted by mdperson

Oh no here we go again. As long as they are used properly I do not have a problem with them.

I hope this is the last time we have to beat this horse, but give it a couple weeks and we can do this all over again.

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Ditto!!!!!!!

If its the number of crappie taken out of a lake due to yo-yo's is your argument, then the AR river and Nimrod should be crappie free by now. Just go back and look at the limits that folks are catching, almost daily with single poles and spidering, and then how many people are pulling limits with yo-yo's (not necessarily posted on here). I bet folks pull more out with poles than with yo-yo's. Yo-yo people are usually only out a short period of the year.

But they're catching our fish!!!! And they aren't doing it right. I caught a thousand out of one treetop but would have caught more if the yo-yo fishermen hadn't caught those that they poached.

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Originally Posted by LMBarnett

If its the number of crappie taken out of a lake due to yo-yo's is your argument, then the AR river and Nimrod should be crappie free by now. Just go back and look at the limits that folks are catching, almost daily with single poles and spidering, and then how many people are pulling limits with yo-yo's (not necessarily posted on here). I bet folks pull more out with poles than with yo-yo's. Yo-yo people are usually only out a short period of the year.

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You are correct.
Nimrod is now free of crappie. there is NO reason for anyone to go back there. C.A. should move, tomorrow. Rest of you, go somewhere else. Besides, it's flooded and won't be fishable for weeks. So go away. OK?

OK?

OK?

Years ago Yo-Yo's cost about $9.95 a dozen. I saw them at Wal-Mart the other day for $3.47 EACH. Can anyone afford to leave them on a tree when they are through fishing????

I have 5 dozen that I paid $1.00 a dozen for right after Lee surrendered.

Dislike!

I love em, just hang 60 off the sides of my boat as I spider 30 poles across the lake. I call it the seine!!