Does anyone think the extra fishing pressure & harvest on the crappie this year will effect future fishing? I have noticed more people fishing this spring on LOZ and have heard about Truman Lake. Just seeing what everyone else thinks.
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Does anyone think the extra fishing pressure & harvest on the crappie this year will effect future fishing? I have noticed more people fishing this spring on LOZ and have heard about Truman Lake. Just seeing what everyone else thinks.
A one pound female crappie can lay up to 5000-60,000 eggs. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of crappie in a body of water, Even if the mortality rate is 50%, you couldn't possibly hurt the population by over harvesting IMHO. Harvesting crappie is one of the best things we can do to help control the populations.
Most of our lakes were unfishable for a lot of last year. The bounty this year has been awesome due to that.
But yeah, what speck said.
I trust the MDC to keep us in check too.
IMO the fishing has sucked this year at LOZ so maybe not much was harvested....at least not by me
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BAA'S the fishing has been spectacular at LOZ, Truman, Pomme and MT as far as both numbers and size. High water last spring kept a lot of folks off of it and pressure was reduced as spawn was never exploited. Yet biologists tell us harvest is not as important as we all think so there is that. T hill has been incredible fishing for last few years but last year and this it has been awful and they had similar conditions to MT. According to locals it is either the damned wipers have ate up all the young fish, even tho they were there during the great years. Or several local fisherman just took out too many, which is laughable as there is so little pressure on that lake.
So pick your fav theory and have at it! Opinions will always vary.
add to this a lot of female crappie do not spawn ever. commercial fishing is the only threat to crappie fishing. at loz now found a limit big females 20 ft deep 15mm. so deep they got the bends when i put them on the stringer. going again this morning.0
For every fish that bites there are hundreds that don't. We could see crappie when fishing in MN and you wouldn't believe how many never even give your lure a look.
If they did they still turn from it or can even bite it and spit it out way before you could set the hook or even felt the strike.
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Originally Posted by keeferfish
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I think you'll hear a lot of the same from the guys with Livescope. They'll see several fish but not all take the bait.
My share of slabs are still in there...I guarantee it...lol. If it stops raining I'll go get a few...lol
For me anyway that fish, or resource, is more important for someone else to catch a second or third time than it is for me as strictly food value. I release 98% of crappie caught, to me it’s a recreational fish not a consumption species. On my home lake, Truman, there’s been a windfall the last few months due to reasons mentioned above, it will not always be that way.