Thread: Opening a bag of worms

Originally Posted by Slab Hunter

Agents cite two men for fishing violations in Catahoula Parish - Louisiana Sportsman

This is why some post big catches and others can’t get a bite!

I just don’t understand what motivates those types.


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Greed is a strange motivation

I can’t say I’ve seen a public body of water over populated with crappie…..
But I can list several small public lakes that are almost void of crappie because of overfishing…….


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I was talking to a fella under a bridge on Lake Guntersville during a thunderstorm. They were from Kentucky I believe. Said that there lake had no size limits on fish alway you could catch was small ones. He blamed it on the no size limit. Looking back it was probably the fact that the lake was overpopulated with crappie

There is a lake in my hometown with a crappy ramp and little parking. It doesn’t get pounded by fisherman because of this. You would think this lake had potential to be a honey hole but the fishing there is terrible. Its owned by the city water department and they would love to close the lake altogether. Fish and wildlife doesn’t manage this lake either. All the crappie are runts and be honest its a waste of time to go out there.


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Grew up on a water department lake. That one olso would close it to fishing if they could

at route u's last MTL gathering the biologist for area was there and he chuckled when folks talked to him about spawns and over fishing. says lake is full o crappie and the fishermen have little affect. more important was water levels during spawn and even if it's higher they still spawn just not where folks expect them to. so many guys superstitions are meaningless.

On my home lake you can ketch literally hundreds of what we call bugeyes, 4 to 7 inch crappie. most folks fish for green carp on lake and release those. A few of us do fish and keep crappie and if you know where to go you can ketch some really big ones. Personally I release anything 13+ and bigger simply because they will grow bigger and someone else will have the pleasure and have plenty of filets from the prime eaters and do keep 8 inchers just to take more out of population and also have buddies who come fill up coolers full so they can stock other lakes where they do grow to good size. even those bugeyes have good genetic potential and do get to good size. but more need to be taken out would really help population.

Overpopulation is a concern