Thread: Enid

Originally Posted by KnightShadow10

Just go fish, and enjoy the day

That's what I do anyway. I don't keep any fish. After early in February or so I have all I need. I've caught a couple hundred at Enid the last 3 weeks and only kept a few for a crankfest partner who wanted some fresh.


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I agree Knight and jim, I'm guilty of the same mindset as a fisherman. One day I'm upset at catching tons of shorts to keeper ratio the next day I'm even more upset of not catching any fish at all. Just enjoy fishing the Big 4, you wanna keep everything thing you catch then go fish a farm pond... or just stay at home. We have a healthy fishery is all that matters. If we ain't willing to take the good with the bad then maybe we outta try something new... like bird watching or hunting Bigfeets.. Lol..

I caught one 12.25 last week that had THREE shad in his mouth...then hit a crank...If they are all feeding like that...they will be growing!!!!

I am not a biologist but I am a avid crappie fisherman that enjoys fishing different lakes.
We in KY battle this because of the gem of lakes that are right here 35 miles from my house, KY Lake and Lake Barkley. These lakes are both in the top 10 crappie fisheries in the states.
As we all know, the big 4 take most of the top 5 of that list.
We can all get a little spoiled from time to time, battle a less than average spawn from a few years ago, or just the fact that the big fish don't get big by hitting our bait presentations.

We all have something special and should help support the efforts to keep them all great fisheries for decades to come.

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Going to tell it like it is. If you don't like catching short fish change lakes. Come back when there legal. Worst thing that could happen is go to 11". If you want to catch keeper fish then GO FISHING and find them.

Well I guess we have our answer. The point I was attempting to make is that you have 4 corps lakes all managed the same and yet one lake has ,at least according to folks who have fished it for years, continually produced thousands of undersized fish year after year. I don't recall Grenada or Arkabutla having this issue. I have not fished Sardis but I heard they have had a poor spawn a couple of years and producing a lot of shorts but this is an anomaly. My comments are just food for thought. Since a couple of biologist made a comment to my friend and I before we said anything about what we caught was interesting to me. I will continue to fish and enjoy all lakes in ms.


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I only fish Sardis 90 percent of the time. Sardis hasn't had bad spawns it's been great these last 2 years. Decent spawns years prior. Few years back was catching 150 a day going home with 8-10. Folks complained they went to 11". Within 2 years after that thousands came and left with coolers full. Went back to 12" now no fish to be caught worth bragging about now boat ramps are empty. Last 2 spawns were high water levels. They were spread out. There are some beast in Sardis right now. Enid is on the verge of tipping over with keeper fish. Folks just be patient

I know I am an outsider but I have fished ENID twice. Once in June and Once in July. I pulled cranks on both trips which I had never done before so we were rookies to say the least. We fished for a total of eight hours on the June trip and caught around 100 with 26 keepers. We fished a total of ten hours on the July trip and caught 143 with 28 keepers. We had bigger fish on the July trip. Yall have a great fishery and I think the 12 inch limit is the reason why. We do not have a length limit in Georgia but I wish we did have at least a ten inch size limit