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Seems like everybody picks on you buddy, so I'm gonna keep it going. :biggrin You think they'll ever get Frierson back to the way it was "in the 70's" as my dad puts it. Apparently then there were some really nice crappie in there, and now it seems like such a waste of time to even think about fishing it as far as crappie are concerned. It would be so nice to have a decent crappie lake so close to home.
Frierson is out of my district and I am not that familiar with it. It is the goal of every biologist to manage their lakes to their maximum potential. This can be difficult on some lakes. We always here that fishing was better back in the old days. I bet it was. Lakes naturally age and as they do, productivity decreases. This results in a fishery that isn't as good as it once was. This is just a reality that we need to acknowledge and manage the best we can. Mojorig is more familiar with this lake even though he is no long in that district. Maybe he can chime in and give a more informative answer than I gave.
... and I don't take these issues that are brought up as picking on me. I am also WELL aware of the issues. If something is directed at me or anyone else in D10 and it is personal, that Is a different story and I will say something. Don't worry, no one has crossed that line in a couple of years. :)
If I remember right, Mojorig posted some pictures of some nice crappie from an electro fishing sample last year from Frierson. Like you, I would like a good crappie lake around this area. I've only catfished Frierson.
Move on...nothing to see here. No crappie in Frierson.:biggrin
I used to camp out on the back side of Frierson when they would draw it down from irrigation in summers and catch catfish. Man that's been a long time since I did that.
And those people that did cross the line have never been seen again. Angry Abductions---I mean Alien Abductions. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by D10
I think D10 is the best. :)
I'm not longer over there but when we sampled for bass last spring, all the crappie we saw were 10 inches and bigger. We saw several crappie in the 13 to 15 inch size range. The saugeye have helped control the small stunted crappie in the lake. So the crappie that are left are usually really nice size fish.
Them Saugeyes are some Gooooood eatin.