Thread: Jigging/Trolling

A dead fish is a dead fish . But mo maybe your right whatever it takes

Originally Posted by "G"

Your right about that Sammy....But eggs in a trash can won't hatch new crappie either .....but on the other hand eggs in a trash can could keep a fishery from becomeing over populated and stunted. Lots of ways to look at things
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G , i agree with you on this, i have seen first hand what over population will do, Caddo lake in Tx. . that i love to fish, has now removed the slot limit on crappie to encourage people to take out the smaller crappie, lake od the pines also does this every winter, both lake have waaay to many dinks.

The way I look at it, if I catch a female, any month of the year, thats one less fish to lay eggs. If what I take out hurts the lake, then the limit needs to be reduced. I feel that there are enough fish being thrown back and produced every year to keep the population in line. It may not be perfect every year, but it usually balances out over the course of a year or two.

The big 4 will never ever have an overpopulation problem.And i'm not sure if there will always be fish to catch.Fish Butla a few days and let me know if there are plenty of fish left.

Originally Posted by Handicrappie

His comment makes perfect sense to me. I stay out in 6-10 ft of water most all the time and catch fish either staging to spawn or leaving the spawning area. I don't try and catch em while they are actually trying to spawn but try like the devil to catch em prior to it or right after

I completely understand what ATM is saying and I do the same Handi. An oldtimer always told me that the males are more critical to the spawn since they're needed to guard the eggs and the fry once they hatch. I know the males eat some of their fry after the hatch but I think he was right about this. A single female can lay about a jillion eggs but with no male there to protect..... I've always tried to leave the males alone. Also, it's a lot easier to get a limit trolling in the deeper water where they're staged up waiting to go in and that's where the big mamas can be found.

Oops. Didn't mean to say the same thing that Speck said. Guess I need to read the whole thread before posting. My bad...

It's all specks fault anyway!

and WB is ugly