Thread: Lets compare Apples to Oranges

Originally Posted by Wannabe...

I think it'd be easier to just rename the joint Wannabe Lake and run a fence around it. That way, I could control it to your tastes Bigger. And I could give you regular reports. Now quit you whining. Least you got to go catch a fish this weekend. pffft.

All you poachers had better not ruin my lake. I mean it now.

Wannabe...

Easy now...shouldn't you be handing out sub-prime mortgages right now instead of renaming lakes and such?

Originally Posted by Wannabe...

I think it'd be easier to just rename the joint Wannabe Lake and run a fence around it. That way, I could control it to your tastes Bigger. And I could give you regular reports. Now quit you whining. Least you got to go catch a fish this weekend. pffft.

All you poachers had better not ruin my lake. I mean it now.

Wannabe...

As long as were straight on this, I think its a DANDY idea. Hurry up and started on that fence.

I think your gonna be real surprised in a couple years Bigger.

Heres the deal. It takes another year for em to get to the 12 inch mark. So all the fish you threw back this year will be keepers next year. You will always have more throwbacks at a 12 inch limit than you will at 10, IMO. PLUS we have had a couple good spawns in a row (something we lacked for several years proir), thus more fish, and small fish in the lake now...

Originally Posted by pstone

I think your gonna be real surprised in a couple years Bigger.

Heres the deal. It takes another year for em to get to the 12 inch mark. So all the fish you threw back this year will be keepers next year. You will always have more throwbacks at a 12 inch limit than you will at 10, IMO. PLUS we have had a couple good spawns in a row (something we lacked for several years proir), thus more fish, and small fish in the lake now...

Sounds logical to meeee

I sure hope youre right.....If not Its gonna suck to have to start back bass fishing!

Hey man it can't get that bad!!!!

There was actually a serious study done and recently published about the effect on a population of Bass. Done over a 10 year period, The study suggested that the effect was that fish were being selected to become harder to catch since the bass were returned to the lake that were caught by tournament fishermen. Therefore, the population migrated to fish that were easier to catch and more suseptible to being caught. On the control lake, the opposite was true, a whole lake full of fish that were harder to catch. Applied to Crappie, the effect would seem to be similar, but different in that the fish that are caught (the more suseptible) are usually harvested, and the ones that aren't(the less suseptible) are left in the lake. Therefore, over time, the only fish left in the lake are ones that are harder and harder to catch.

Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that the reason I stink at Crappie fishing is that all you older guys have ruined my lake.

This has nothing to do with the original hypothesis, but it makes me giggle when I realize that I wasted at least 3 minutes of Bigger's life forcing him to read it.

Wannabe...

Giggle meister

Originally Posted by Wannabe...

There was actually a serious study done and recently published about the effect on a population of Bass. Done over a 10 year period, The study suggested that the effect was that fish were being selected to become harder to catch since the bass were returned to the lake that were caught by tournament fishermen. Therefore, the population migrated to fish that were easier to catch and more suseptible to being caught. On the control lake, the opposite was true, a whole lake full of fish that were harder to catch. Applied to Crappie, the effect would seem to be similar, but different in that the fish that are caught (the more suseptible) are usually harvested, and the ones that aren't(the less suseptible) are left in the lake. Therefore, over time, the only fish left in the lake are ones that are harder and harder to catch.

Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that the reason I stink at Crappie fishing is that all you older guys have ruined my lake.

This has nothing to do with the original hypothesis, but it makes me giggle when I realize that I wasted at least 3 minutes of Bigger's life forcing him to read it.

Wannabe...

Giggle meister

I almost mentioned that possibility...there is a similar phenomenon in rattlesnakes...in places where they are hunted heavily (Texas) some researchers think the snakes are beginning to not rattle as much (or at all).