Fisheries Biologist Mike Mounce spoke before we started this morning about Lake Shelbyville for this year. He said crappie population looks very good still, but because of a strong year class of black crappie we have a bit too many of them. They are competing with white crappie for food, and need to be thined out. He stressed that anglers should keep those 9" black crappie. He even said if you don't want to mess with cleaning them to still keep your five and throw away at home with your cleaned fish. He said walleye and sauger should also be good this year. No change in regards to muskie and catfish. Neither are all that good. He didn't go into great detail about fall shock surveys. He did say something about the weather not being very good the day they did it, and made the process more difficult. He again stressed this year to not try and move any of the dropped structure elsewhere. The spots are chosen for good reasons, and have imput from several sources before chosen. He also said it would only take one instance of someone moving a piece of the structure to an unsafe place, and someone getting hurt to bring a halt to these drops that benefit us fishermen. I expect they will make available a report of fall shock surveys at some point, because they usually do. He also mentioned they are working on a raising another batch of muskie at the rearing pond to place in the lake. He mentioned the fact that Illinois budget issues are affecting them as well, and after anticipated retirements this year, the folks responsible for raising the fish stocked in the lake will be down to three people and not able to do anymore.