I think we need to be more worried about the asian carp and not how many poles someone is using to try and catch 20 crappie
West Kentucky relies on money brought it from out of staters and locals that are here to fish.
How many Bass tourneyments are held on Kentucky and Barkley lakes each year??? If we have too many incidences of jumping carp GOOD BYE bass tourneyments. Wow how will that impact the local economy?
If you lower creel limit it's not going to be worth the cost of gas food and lodging to make a trip to the lake to catch and keep only a few crappie.
Thats why I don't go to Canada to fish anymore too expensive of a trip to only be able to keep a few fish.
The pole limits have been argued many times on here. I don't see how 1-10 poles out at a time make any differavce if you only keep the 20 fish limit.
Ah.... theres the real problem how many people are keeping more than 20 fish per day??? And it ain't only the out of staters boys. I have never seen any one that I know keep more than there 20 but I have heard about some that have.
And what about short fish??? the other day there was a post about turning in someone you thought was keeping short fish. And some people said they would just mind there own business. Well if you think there should be pole limits then you should be calling the DNR about violators also.
I agree with crappie pappy we need to hear it from the horse's mouth.
But in my humble opinion pole limits will not help much. What we need is more DNR officers on the water checking boats. I understand they are short handed but thats what we need.