Dumb Question

[Chuck Adams]

.... yeah, but it was the same back when the size limit was 9" ... you could catch a ton of 8 7/8" fish. Then all of a sudden people started catching 11-14" fish in numbers and the KDFWR decided to up the size limit to 10" (and now here we are, again )

CP,
I’ve only fished Taylorsville for the last 5-6 years. Has the limit always been 15?
Chuck


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[CrappiePappy]

CP,
I’ve only fished Taylorsville for the last 5-6 years. Has the limit always been 15?
Chuck


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Best I remember, yes, it has always been 15/day/person. It's only a 3000 acre lake, opened in 1983 ... and the first couple of decades since opening you'd be lucky to catch a 9" Crappie that wasn't paper thin. I've fished it since it opened, but spent a lot of those early years Bass fishing it because of the poor condition of the Crappie back then.

[Foxy Jig]

water fluctuation has to be a factor right

[happycaster58]

No rhyme or reason to most any fish. Just try to be there when they are biting'. Sign at one of my old beach piers said- You should have been here yesterday!

[Micanopy]

Amazing. Like a giant underwater bell rings, and they start biting or stop. How every fish in a huge lake can all act in concert is crazy.

[keeferfish]

Sometimes it's just time of day. We fished a lake for a week straight and learned quickly after 1 pm just put the boat up. We hammered fish until 1pm then they were done!

[Opie1]

The lake I fish is the premier musky lake in Ohio. When I have been catching and they just shut off, sometimes the reason is a big ol' musky has moved into the area and the bite stops. Big channels or a flatheads can do that too. The crappie go immobile, belly to the bottom and don't move. Kind of like a squirrel who sees a hawk and they freeze on the side of the tree pointing downwards till the threat has passed. Could be a number of things.