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

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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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But the yoyos baited with minnows take alot of the biggest. I remember old timers trotlinng for Crappie back in the 70's in the backwaters. They actually sold slabs (illegal but went on )and man it was unreal how many they hauled out! There would be lots fewer yoyo fishermen if they had to follow the regulations!:twocents

Make them self-enforcing by declaring them public property if hanging between 30 minutes before and after sundown/sunup. My gripe at Conway is some that live up there leave their yoyos out for for weeks making it difficult and dangerous to pole fish in the cypress trees with hooks hanging everywhere. I always considered yoyos a night time sport anyway.

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Originally Posted by NIMROD

But the yoyos baited with minnows take alot of the biggest. I remember old timers trotlinng for Crappie back in the 70's in the backwaters. They actually sold slabs (illegal but went on )and man it was unreal how many they hauled out! There would be lots fewer yoyo fishermen if they had to follow the regulations!:twocents

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To some degree, that was me. I ran a ton of yo-yo's in the Plumerville Cutoff.....back when it was lined with big trees. We tied ropes between the trees and hung the yo yo's off of the ropes. After a couple of years of that, we found out it was illegal! We also shot frogs in a pond offshore there, and found out THAT was illegal. We stopped when we found out. We were maybe 25-30 years old (Lincoln was running for President, and the Dead Sea had just started to get sick) and we'd bass fish till dark, then run yo-yo's till dawn.

We did NOT haul out "tons" of crappie. We caught mostly catfish. But we caught a few crappie.

I can't even imagine leaving those yo-yo's out there when I left. They were too expensive to do that! Plus it'd be stupid. I never did that, not once. They are still in the shop, with hooks stuck in the styrofoam bucket.

And I'd go again in a heartbeat.........and do it legal.........IF I could stay awake that long, which I can't! :)

I repeat- Im so glad im not the only crazy person on this board! One night in November years ago Rookie and me were running yo yos and I fell out of the boat with the spotlight in my hand. Being to drunk to swim I DoD an underwater flip jumped back in the boat with the spotlight still burning bright! When we stopped laughing 10 min later Rookie said - I got one question dog- DID YOU SEE ANY FISH?

True story and I have never laughed that hard in my life. Some of the best times of my life were had while running yo yos.