Thread: What's the name

A couple of years ago Okatibbee was way out of balance with an overpopulation of crappie. That was causing them not to grow off as fast and as big as they should. The biologist took the 10 inch slot off of the lake and nobody checks limits of fish, or they haven't checked mine anyway. Game wardens check everything but numbers of fish it seems. It is helping cause we can see the thickness of the crappie getting a lot better. I weighed one this spring that weighed 2.0. That's the first two pounder I've caught here in years. In the 1980s, Okatibbee was listed as one of the best crappie lakes in the state. Hopefully, better times are ahead.

I intend to help yall out some on those numbers, WSSM was back down there one day this last week but havent heard how they did.
Guess our spillway sucking some of ours out helps keep the numbers down here, come on rain, still need about 5 or 6 feet for me.

Funny you say that about butla, cause I had a game warden tell me if Fred Albright's record were to ever be beat if would be a butla fish that does it. He said he saw 6 fish taken from there last year that were real close to 5 pounds.

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Originally Posted by Gator_1

Funny you say that about butla, cause I had a game warden tell me if Fred Albright's record were to ever be beat if would be a butla fish that does it. He said he saw 6 fish taken from there last year that were real close to 5 pounds.

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I wouldnt be surprised at all Gator, they are some kinda thick!!!!!!

What is weird about butla is it seams to have lowest water for the longest time.

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Originally Posted by Rees Guide

Agreed, same thing with e weight too. 16 inch fish on Butle will out weigh a 16 inch fish in any of the other big four.

A year or so ago, while fishing a tourney, Major and I caught one at Butla that wouldn't fit in the red B&M crappie checker. It was so wide, it looked like a football with fins. Lol

Originally Posted by Gator_1

What is weird about butla is it seams to have lowest water for the longest time.

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Reckon as much as the spillway stays on up there that it keeps the smaller fesh sucked out leaving the bigger fesh more to eat? I dont know, just throwing mud on the wall to see what sticks.

And I wonder about all the cover available up stream in coldwater. If that has anything to do with it.

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