Thread: Enid

We ask this about Enid every year........for the last 20 or so years, lol. The 11-11.5 inch fish at Enid are endless, and it has been like this every summer as far back as I can remember. I don't know exactly why, but I don't think that is gonna change! We keep saying they will get to legal size by fall, spring, summer, winter, and it's always it's always the same. All I can figure is when they get to be 12 1/8 inches, they all of a sudden get smarter and don't hit a lure or jig, lol.

On our last trip up there we ran into 2 biologists from ms state. They are aware of problem. They are gonna have to reduce size limit at some point for a period of time. Not their suggestion just my thoughts


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Last week, my boat with two people caught 109 legal fish...the fish are as healthy as I have seen...nothing wrong with the fish...you just have to figure out what they want..reducing the size limit will not fix the problem...we tried that at Sardis

Not saying that they are not healthy, (although they are not as thick thru the shoulders as other lakes i fish), but when the average to better than average crappie fisherman can't get close to a limit without catching 50 to 100 fish, and it has been going on for years and the biologist acknowledge a problem, solutions need to be discussed. Most other lakes in ms are 30/ angler limits and they are acheivable routinely. Just my observation.


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If nothing else they could do like Washington and allow a 3-5 fish between 10 and 12 per day for a year and see how that works. Washington has that slot


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Originally Posted by crappiejim

If nothing else they could do like Washington and allow a 3-5 fish between 10 and 12 per day for a year and see how that works. Washington has that slot

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That won't happen again, when it was in place it was abused. Tried it when they first imposed the 10 inch minimum years ago.

70 to 90% of keeper fish are taken out of the lake each year. There caught, go through spillway, die of natural causes, etc. this happens every single year. This past June there were a half dozen weights 12 plus and a 13 lb plus weight in the tournaments held on Enid. For post spawn weights, that's as good as it gets. In my opinion the lake is as good as it's been in 25 years right now. In my opinion the 12 inch ML is the best thing for all 4 lakes if they are wanting to be categorized as trophy lakes. The fish have to get age to get to 15 and 16 inches. If your taking say 80% of the keepers out every year that only leaves 20% to age. If you lowered the ML to 11 inches you would eventually start seeing a lot of 10 to 11 inch fish and ask the same question, "when are these 10.75 inch gonna be keepers". The limits and ML were set to keep these lakes trophy class. I think there doing the best thing for them and I want to go keep a bunch of 10 inch fish I will go fish a pond. I like catching Big crappie though, and I really like trying to figure them out. That's what's fun to me.

Well said