I find this all quite interesting. As suspected a very diverse group.
I keep way less than 1/2 the crappie I catch and never a trophy fish. On Columbus if it is 1.75 it goes back if Grenada 2.25 it goes back if Pickwick 2 pounds etc. etc. I hardly ever have crappie in my freezer.. Creates a bit of a tournament feel when I tell the wife I will be fishing in the morning and we will be eating crappie in the evening. Try that on certain days in Dec. or maybe Aug. On those days I am very proud of my 6 crappie in the 10 to 11 inch range that took all day to catch. Have an outdoor writer show up and you need to catch just a few on command.. Take your biggest customer on a crappie trip.. Take your 3 year old and watch them look at you waiting on you to catch one... Those are the situations I love. Along with picking a lake I have never been to.. study a map.. Go fish and catch even a few..
Really though, I could do all those same things BASS fishing..
I am beginning to think it is really the fact that the crappie numbers are much higher making catching more frequent but more than anything it is the company kept, as a whole you crappie guys are just more my kind of people. Could it really be that we chose the species by the group of fishermen we wish to represent ourselves with? Or maybe the group we feel we best fit in?
Just a thought.. You guys gave me the thought..