Thread: 10 inch at sardis?

thank you FEELAY! It is not a dating site, I AM MARRIED TO A FISHERMAN ANYWAYS, thank you!

I sent a suggestion of allowing 5 fish between 10" and 12", and 10 over 12" with a boat total of 40. This allows "tourists" to catch fish to keep while not ruining the chances of fish to reach super slab size.

Someone always mentions out-of-staters. Guess what! ALL COE lakes were constructed by the US taxpayers. Not just Mississippians. They are maintained by US taxpayers. This fact really makes these COE lakes truly public lakes. So when someone blames the out-of-state fishermen they really don't know what they are speaking of. Would anyone care to compare what they spend, as a resident, on a fishing trip to one of the big 4 to what an out-of-state angler spends? Might surprise some folks. I personally don't keep track of what I spend because it's my enjoyment and I don't mind spending it.

Originally Posted by hotrod1

Instead of booking one trip a day you could book 4 three hour trips a day and just about limit out if the new rules go in to place. A lot of guides b

Since it is a boat limit, ethics kinda rules that out. If guides did as you say then the rules are useless anyway.

This is what I read today:

Best luck lately has been trolling for crappie with jigs and/or minnows. A club tournament Saturday was won with 16.29 lb (7 fish); big fish was 2.95 lb. Most teams brought in 7 fish limits and there were numerous fish over 2 lb weighed in.

Seems like they are catching good fish.

All this other commentary and opinion is the same junk spit out by all the "experts" when it seemed a 12 inch fish was hard to come by. All you anecdotal experts need to leave it to the people that are actually doing the studies. If you want to pick on trollers, why not pick on live bait folks. They probably catch more crappie than those trolling.

Even the report of the meeting seems that there are the vocal few who refuse to listen to actual data since they wouldn't let the speaker finish with the report of actual electro fishing studies.

I see people post pictures on here a few days in a row of a tailgate full of fish. I know someone this last year posted a picture with like 92 crappie in the back of a truck (some folks on here even commented about it). It looks like pictures of Bass from the 50s and 60s or deer in the early 1900s. Crappie fishermen need to take a lesson from the Bass folks. As the sport grew they knew they had to limit themselves to have a future fishery. I know Crappie are good eating, but you don't have to take the limit home every time you go. This type of fishing, especially around here, is growing leaps and bounds and will only get bigger. I am pretty sure there are more folks Crappie fishing at Sardis than Bass fishing now. Ten years ago it was 10 to 1 Bass Fishing. The most Crappie I ever took home on one trip was 11 and they were all over 14 inches. Otherwise I try to keep between 4 to 6 if my freezer doesn't have a good supply and I am lucky to fish one day a week.

So as I said in the past, it seems the MDWFP is keeping good track of situation and I will trust them to make the best decisions for the fishery, not the vocal anecdotal experts.

So what y'all are saying is mississippi guides can only take one trip a day. Or are you saying you can only catch the boats limit a day. I would like to know because I see where guides can book half day trips. I don't have a problem with out of state fishermen there just fishermen no racist here. What I don't like seeing is whether its someone in state camping or an out of state person camping or those with fish camps that stay for a month and catch limits of fish and have there buddies come down and haul off 7 limits yes that's legal and yes that's happening I haven't seen that much of it at the camps lately but it will come back with the changes coming. That's why I think it should be limited to 2 limits per person.

It is a boat limit..... One boat can only take 50 fish out of the lake a day under the current rules regardless of how many people fish off of it. A half day trip only means the guide is charging a smaller fee for less hours. You are implying that guides are doing this to take more trips in a day which I believe is completely false. Maybe Feelay can chime in to clarify for us.


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After reading some post it looks like boat limit a day per boat. If that's the case most trips will be half day trips. Most not all. I understand weather plays a huge factor.