Quote Originally Posted by armyman View Post
In reply to your post D10 (sorry I don't know your name), what is the solution on Nimrod? Just trying to learn something. Been following this thread and curious.

Calvin



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Calvin - the short answer is there might not be anything that can be done to make Nimrod have fewer small crappie and more big crappie. Sometimes Mother Nature (the effects of high water and flooding) are much more influential than regulations (length limits and creel limits). One suggestion that seems like it would work on the surface is to take the creel limit off of crappie under a certain size (under 9-in). There are a couple of problems with this. There are a lot of Nimrods (CA Douglas) out there that will not harvest small crappie. They would rather go some where else where they can keep bigger fish. Another problem is that the small fish are also the youngest fish and the most numerous. So every year you would be facing the battle of trying to thin out the small crappie that represent the most abundant and youngest year class. Definitely an uphill battle that probably wouldn't work like you might think it would. Sometime you just have to make lemonade out of lemons instead of trying to turn it into apple juice. Hopefully this makes sense.


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