Thread: Past Due Time For Change

Very discouraging situation. I've been debating about if all the fish are gone OR they just haven't really started to spawn yet because of the colder weather. Now, I'm leaning more towards the first. Been fishing this lake 40 years and NOTHING compares to what I've seen this year. Fished 2 weeks so far and caught 20 fish. I'm giving it another week and if not turned on by then, I guess I'll search another lake.

I agree that the fishing will cycle from good to bad years, but the problem is Bad Management of the corp lakes. I know they only care about the flood control, and they've shown that to be true. With that being said, I wonder why they pad their coffers by checking everyone's fish and license only during the spawn? I guess it's all about an easy buck. They only care about the fish when they can check the most folks at a time to make money. Kinda like deer hunting at night. It's easy.

I doubt it would work, but I wonder how many names it would take on a petition to get them to change the size limit back to 12"?

I was told if we could get congress to approve raising the winter pool by 5 feet on all of the big four lakes it would create enough new hiding places to solve the issue naturally.

The biggest thing to help these lake is stop bragging and posting it on every social media site known to man.We learned our lesson with Butla a few years ago but I promise you somebody will catch some fish and post it up and the parking lots will be full.This site should be used to learn,meet new people ,not where are they biting let's all go there.But I could be wrong.

Originally Posted by yikess

I was told if we could get congress to approve raising the winter pool by 5 feet on all of the big four lakes it would create enough new hiding places to solve the issue naturally.

Let's start a petition.

Originally Posted by Big C

The biggest thing to help these lake is stop bragging and posting it on every social media site known to man.We learned our lesson with Butla a few years ago but I promise you somebody will catch some fish and post it up and the parking lots will be full.This site should be used to learn,meet new people ,not where are they biting let's all go there.But I could be wrong.

You could be wrong, but in this case, you're not.

I don't see no harm in posting em, long as ya don't say publicly where they were caught. If one of the regs here pm me I'm more than happy to tell em. But never publicly again. Lesson learned last year!

Originally Posted by dmane82

I don't see no harm in posting em, long as ya don't say publicly where they were caught. If one of the regs here pm me I'm more than happy to tell em. But never publicly again. Lesson learned last year!

It's sad that's it come to this but there are so many folks that browse these forums only for fishing reports then show up wherever the fish are "on". I'll privately tell anyone of you what I've seen/caught, but nothing specific will hit a general forum. It protects us all.

It's the same with duck hunting. I hunt public 90% of the time and my wife doesn't even know where I am most of the time. My kids know better than to say names of places and I for certain don't post pics until after the season!