Quote Originally Posted by ATM View Post
According to a mdwfp chart based off of one of their surveys on one of the big four this is what a typical crappie fishery looks like. Forget the specific numbers, they are relative. Someone tell me how you are going to "fish out a fishery".

0"-2" 1,000,000
2"-4" 500,000
4"-6" 250,000
6"-8" 125,000
8"-10" 62,500
10"-12" 31,250
12"-14" 15,625
14"-16" 7812
16"-18 3906
It's simple math to me! If south65 catches 10,000 fish per year any lake he fishes is doomed. But then you got Wb helping to keep the catch rate to a minimum on any lake he goes to. Average the 2 and that means the average angler gonna catch 5000 per year and you got only 2,000,000+/- fish that means that 400 Average anglers gonna fish it out. My theory rests on the two anglers mentioned above so my numbers may be off just a bit.