Thread: Enid Crappie Tournament

I tell you ain't nothing worse than to hang up 8 poles on an unmarked line. I was at Enid last year in the timber at Water Valley and someone had run a line between two trees with no marking. When I finally got the line up I cut it to get my stuff loose. He had both ends tied to the tree so he should not have any problem with finding it.
If I hang one that is marked then its my fault.

This wasn't a trotline, it was an OLD gill net tied between a couple of old midlake tree trunks, with maybe 3 scummy jugs floating it, and had several rotten carp or drum in it, all covered with green scum. Honestly, as I was heading through the stump field, I thought it was just a couple of fishing jugs someone had out, so I manuevered to avoid em. A "sportsman" wouldn't leave his old garbage in the lake like that to begin with. If that's the way a commercial guy operates, he needs to rethink his business plan!
I guess I could have sat there and waited for him to come back and untie his line from my prop. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! .... I'll give that a thought next time it happens.

Legal commercial equipment is serial tagged and tracable to the owner of the equipment. If it was a legal gill net, the tag probably could have been found and reported. Left out, unused or unmaintained equipment might fall into the the problem of "wanten waste".

Originally Posted by slydog1227

This wasn't a trotline, it was an OLD gill net tied between a couple of old midlake tree trunks, with maybe 3 scummy jugs floating it, and had several rotten carp or drum in it, all covered with green scum. Honestly, as I was heading through the stump field, I thought it was just a couple of fishing jugs someone had out, so I manuevered to avoid em. A "sportsman" wouldn't leave his old garbage in the lake like that to begin with. If that's the way a commercial guy operates, he needs to rethink his business plan!
I guess I could have sat there and waited for him to come back and untie his line from my prop. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! .... I'll give that a thought next time it happens.

slydog.. I'm not wanting a pissing contest, You did run over it knowing it had marked jugs on it. I agree with you it should have not been left like that.
It may not even be a commercial fisherman's net.
I see 2 wrongs here, you running over it, and it being left in the lake to long, BUT it was marked, and you didn't have to run over it. He did have every right to have it there.
It makes no difference how long it had been there, it was marked and you are not the Sardis Lake police.
I think you need more boat training, and manners, And I wish you well next time go go to Sardis.

crappie cowboy

The way he said it was marked with three jugs...I would have thought like he did that it was somebodys fishing jugs and that I could go between them....never would have thought about a net. If it was all scummy etc. and dead rotten fish then whoever put it there did not run it properly and was not taking care of business in my opinion.

I agree totally with not taking care of the net. If I see jugs in a line, I will go around them, just makes sense to me that some thing is there, or the jugs would not be there, it's there partly to warn you.
It makes no difference how long it is there...it's there and marked. You just have to use good judgment.

crappie cowboy

Just got back from Enid camping....man was it ruff out there yesterday!!! Could only manage 7 keepers....this was my first time fishing from the Dam side of the lake. Only my second time ever to crappie fish enid.

And guys....re-read my post... I said if trolling is what floats your boat thats fine but dont talk condescending junk toward the real crappie fishermen...the single pole guy.....ha ha ....dont get ya'll panties all in a wad...I just messing with ya'll....hey, G-3 I pass through main street Ecru every morning!

Originally Posted by G-3 Fisherman

You should have been at our tournament at Enid last Saturday....you could have showed us what you can do. I notice that you were not interested in the single pole tourney either as you never said that you wanted to come. If you want to talk about it...I drink coffee in Ecru every morning.

I dont really do tournaments....ive had my share of that stuff back in my green carp days...takes all the fun out of it for me. But, i bet them little FJ's would be fun though. Be nice if i could single pole one and win it against all you multi-pole guys!:D