Quote Originally Posted by mcdenney View Post
I’m curious to everyone’s thoughts on the state of the overall health of the crappie at GRL. Specifically the amount of fish over 11” the last two years has taken a significant decline? There is no doubt a tremendous amount of crappie in the 8-9 1/2” range with a few 10-10 3/4” fish but not a lot. It seems to be somewhat over populated with smaller fish anymore? Anyone else experiencing the same or it is just me? Hatch related? We must of caught over 200 crappie yesterday and the vast majority (70%) were 8-9 1/2”. Deep, shallow, different sections of the lake, etc it didn’t seem to matter.

Thoughts?
I was at the lake from Tuesday until Friday last week. I caught a limit each day. I had 3-14 in. Several 12-13 in. Out of the 80 I keep about 12-under 10 in. I did have to go through several 6-9 in. fish but that just tells me we have plenty of fish for the future. I was at Ky. Lake last week and had same results with a lot of short fish. I think I would be more concern if you weren’t catching short fish mixed in. I will say I talked to a few people that weren’t catching any keepers but I don’t know why.


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