Just texted torch, Maj. and Bigger. Catching plenty of dinks. Torch and Sat. have 30 keepers, bigger catching plenty of 12 1/2" fish. Major catching plenty of dinks. Sounds like they need to lower slot limit.
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Just texted torch, Maj. and Bigger. Catching plenty of dinks. Torch and Sat. have 30 keepers, bigger catching plenty of 12 1/2" fish. Major catching plenty of dinks. Sounds like they need to lower slot limit.
They should have held it at Okatibbee. Extremewade texted me this pic this morning plus my neighbor stopped by with 30 in his boat. Attachment 63253
Their catching plenty of fish, just dinks. Enid is a dink hole and Sardis will be to before long. You have to treat fish just like deer, you gotta thin em out. We don't have monster crappie on Barnett but we do have good size and no length limit.
Have heard a lot of fishermen say the same thing....need to lower the slot limit.
They had to do it on Okatibbee and it has help a little.
30 keepers by 11am? I'd take that every day of the week.
Just heard Yikes and Speck came 1st 12+ lbs.
10 fish or 7 fish ???Quote:
Originally Posted by jimfish
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joe and I caught over 200 crappie, and we kept about 30 or so. we could have kept a full limit of 40, but we threw back a bunch of 12 1/4 inch fish. we had fish on 6-7 poles at a time, and we had doubles on one pole several times..........but a lot of the fish were 7-10 inchers. our 7 weighed 9.52 pounds, i think, and our big fish was 1.72 lbs. it was good to see everyone, and we thoroughly enjoyed it..................we ended beating DD, as that was my main goal, lol.
That don't take much. You done good!
Way to go DuckHunter!
The science says otherwise, If you are going to have trophy lakes (Enid, Sardis, Grenada and Arkabutla) you have to protect the fish with length and number limits. I would like to know how many fish are pulled out of those lakes each year plus what goes out the spillway. I bet it is in the hundreds of thousands. Ever since they imposed the length limit on Enid the fishing has gotten better every year.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiholic
Only real DINK hole is Ross Barnett!
Enid ought to be good this year......as many 11 and a half inch fish that I threw back last year, lol.....they got to be over 12 inches this year.
There is alot of dinks on barnett but there.are alot of 13 1/2 to 15 1/2 inchers as well. Barnetts fish are fat as I am to lol
I would say the slot limit on Enid is working. I was floored when i heard 12 pounds won. We have been having tournaments over there for years and 9-10 was always the best. I say change all MS lakes to 12 inches1
I know it would help Washington, it would be bad for a couple of years but it would get so much better!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mississippi Slab
Has worked wonders on butla.
The 12lbs is saying something, lots of 13 1/2 to 15 inch fish caught that weighed .9 to 1.25 fish are in that post spawn funk and have not gotten their sholders back.
Since we have so many experts on this subject, let me ask this question: The Big Four as many of you call them all had the 12" limit impossed at the same time. Grenada still produces good fish year after year. Why has this not been true for the other 3 lakes? Don't include the big catch last February at Sardis. I saying year after year.
Forage base is going to be the answer I think, Hollic. Sardis, Butla and Grenada have a lot more shad.....at least that's teh answers I've read over the years......seems to me though that Enid has plenty of shad according to my FFs. Could be that Enid has a higher population of White Bass and Largemouth that compete for the available shad...????
I wish they'd make it 12" with 1 fish over 16 for Grenada.
Wannabe...
I dont claim to be an expert first of all. There are many out there with bigger heads than mine and bigger heads must mean bigger brains? Right? I know it took 14.68 pounds in September at Arkabutla to win. I know MCC had it's heavest stringer at Grenada a year ago with over 19 pounds in the spring. Now it takes 12 pounds to win a tournament in June on Enid. I have been hearing record catches at Sardis for months now so I say something is working!
A biologist here said it takes 5 years to really start seeing results on a size limit. Our local lake, Wappapello, instituted a size limit. This is the fifth year for it. You hardly ever heard of 2 pound crappie being caught there. Now, several 2+'s are being weighed in at every tournament.
WB, you are dead on about the 16" fish and it should be that way at Sardis. All I'm saying is that when we started MCC 19 years ago, we had our "finals" on Enid and Grenada several times and it would take 13-14 lbs to win day 1 at Enid and 11-12 lbs to win day 2 at Grenada. The first time I fish a crappie tournament on Grenada we only paid 7 out 15 places cause no one caught a 10" fish. I think the white bass have killed Enid just as the yellow bass and stripers killed Eagle.
Eagles been on the rebound the last couple years thanks to the MCC. They put in fish attrators and went to Chotard and caught some white crappie out of there to put in Eagle. From what I've heard the fish were getting fewer and smaller but now they're making a comeback. Well, WERE making a comeback but with the water from the river in there, there's no telling what'll happen to it now. We had bad luck with the weather at the tourney this year but the fish Nessa and I caught were fat as all get out. Really good weights for the length of them. I do know Hugh got on them good during the spawn, saw some pics of some sho nuff pigs this spring
Hollic you are kinda proving my point. When MCC started fishing those lakes 19 years ago you say it took 13-14 lbs at Grenada and 11-12 at Enid and that was weighing in 10 fish. Now we are weighing in 7 fish and seeing the kinda of weight it once took with 10 fish. Something is woring up there!
Dont think that all of the big 4 were started on the 12" slot at the same time either.
You are correct Sat. Grenada had a 12 inch limit with 3 fish under 12 for years before the other 3 lakes adopted the 12" limit.Quote:
Originally Posted by satdoc1
Grenada was the first with length limit and pole restrictions.
Still think the 3 pole restriction on Grenada is DUMM when the rest are 5.
I'd like to see 5 at Grenada too.Quote:
Originally Posted by satdoc1
Grenada had the 10" limit first and then when the uproar started about the crappie tournaments taking all the fish out was when the 12" limit started along with the # of poles. Grenada fishermen got the whole thing going. MSlab, when we started MCC, we were weighing 20 fish then down to fifthteen, then to 10 and finally 7. The weights I was talking about at Enid was 7 fish.
The # of poles rule is not the greatest way to preserve the trophy fish on Grenada. I don't care if somebody fishes with 27 poles, but make the limit 15 fish PER BOAT with only 2 over 16" (definate 3 pounders on Grenada) PER BOAT. This will allow the fishermen to keep a good mess of fish, fifteen 12"+ fish is a real nice mess, and still preserve the trophy fishery that Grenada lake is known for.
Man, I sho do wish Barnett would put say an 11 inch minimum on the size and ENFORCE the dang thing. I see way to many 9-10 inch fish put in coolers when I'm up there fishing in the winter and we're all piled up on top of each other. Makes me sick to watch em
The biggest problem that all of the lakes have is lack of law enforcement concerning the limits. People going and catching 2 or 3 limits each day don't get it.
I been saying that we needed to limit the number of trophy fish for years. Its silly to put a knife to all those big fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilly
I agree that a slot limit would helpQuote:
Originally Posted by biggerjigger
The problem on Okatibbee is completely different than the "Big 4". Okatibbee is overpopulated with crappie according to the state biologists. They removed the 10 inch slot last year and from what I'm seeing, it's working. I don't keep a 10 inch fish anyway but hopefully some folks are at Okatibbee. The day of the MCC tourney was the worst day of fishing I've seen in a while so I hope the club continues to fish Okatibbee. I know that this time last year I was not catching as many better fish. Yesterday I had 30 over 11 inches before 10:00 with the largest 15 inches and 1 lb 10 oz. Not comparable with the Big 4 but getting better.
It has taken me about 6-8 years to agree with the biologists but Barnett is over populated. The only thing that has kept Barnett going for years is the shad population. Barnett is close to have as many shad as Chotard.