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Since we have so many experts on this subject, let me ask this question: The Big Four as many of you call them all had the 12" limit impossed at the same time. Grenada still produces good fish year after year. Why has this not been true for the other 3 lakes? Don't include the big catch last February at Sardis. I saying year after year.
Forage base is going to be the answer I think, Hollic. Sardis, Butla and Grenada have a lot more shad.....at least that's teh answers I've read over the years......seems to me though that Enid has plenty of shad according to my FFs. Could be that Enid has a higher population of White Bass and Largemouth that compete for the available shad...????
I wish they'd make it 12" with 1 fish over 16 for Grenada.
Wannabe...
I dont claim to be an expert first of all. There are many out there with bigger heads than mine and bigger heads must mean bigger brains? Right? I know it took 14.68 pounds in September at Arkabutla to win. I know MCC had it's heavest stringer at Grenada a year ago with over 19 pounds in the spring. Now it takes 12 pounds to win a tournament in June on Enid. I have been hearing record catches at Sardis for months now so I say something is working!
A biologist here said it takes 5 years to really start seeing results on a size limit. Our local lake, Wappapello, instituted a size limit. This is the fifth year for it. You hardly ever heard of 2 pound crappie being caught there. Now, several 2+'s are being weighed in at every tournament.
WB, you are dead on about the 16" fish and it should be that way at Sardis. All I'm saying is that when we started MCC 19 years ago, we had our "finals" on Enid and Grenada several times and it would take 13-14 lbs to win day 1 at Enid and 11-12 lbs to win day 2 at Grenada. The first time I fish a crappie tournament on Grenada we only paid 7 out 15 places cause no one caught a 10" fish. I think the white bass have killed Enid just as the yellow bass and stripers killed Eagle.
Eagles been on the rebound the last couple years thanks to the MCC. They put in fish attrators and went to Chotard and caught some white crappie out of there to put in Eagle. From what I've heard the fish were getting fewer and smaller but now they're making a comeback. Well, WERE making a comeback but with the water from the river in there, there's no telling what'll happen to it now. We had bad luck with the weather at the tourney this year but the fish Nessa and I caught were fat as all get out. Really good weights for the length of them. I do know Hugh got on them good during the spawn, saw some pics of some sho nuff pigs this spring
Hollic you are kinda proving my point. When MCC started fishing those lakes 19 years ago you say it took 13-14 lbs at Grenada and 11-12 at Enid and that was weighing in 10 fish. Now we are weighing in 7 fish and seeing the kinda of weight it once took with 10 fish. Something is woring up there!
Dont think that all of the big 4 were started on the 12" slot at the same time either.
You are correct Sat. Grenada had a 12 inch limit with 3 fish under 12 for years before the other 3 lakes adopted the 12" limit.Quote:
Originally Posted by satdoc1
Grenada was the first with length limit and pole restrictions.