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Very interesting read. From everything that I have read....even biologist a lot of the time do not agree with each other.
Well, glad to live in Texas without having to worry about complicated restrictions. Four or five over 10", and I got a mess for me and
the wife. Good well written article.
restrict my limit, but let me have my poles. Seldom keep a limit anyway, heck I seldom keep any! Thanks for the information.
Interesting. I'm going to continue to fish with just one pole. I'll have a few rigged and ready to go, but I'll only use one at a time. I'm in a northern tier state, and crappies are a precious commodity around here.
Definatly a troller.
Great article.
very good info
I like 2 poleing and using floats. I do long line some and want to try spider rigging.
Good Info.
Great read. We have a lake here in VA where you can catch 9" crappie all year long, but few above 9".
interesting
Glad we have good pops of larger crappie here in Tx. 10 in minimum in Tx... but it fits our population. Interesting read.
Good article
Interesting article. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent article.
I sure wish we had bigger fish here in Washington
I long line with eight rods...LAZY way to fish till you get two or more fish on at the same time then it is FUN FISHING.......great article.
great read
good reading with lots of info
Maybe I'm missing the point, but a limit is a limit, regardless of method used to get it. I mean there is a daily creel limit, and the biologists determine what the waters you fish can stand. I don't see the difference in catching 20 fish on 4 poles rigged with 6 hook, flame-tailed blue squealers vs. catching 20 fish on 1 pole with a minnow and slip float.
New York is a 9" - 15 per day limit. Fishing out of my kayak I fish 3 poles. One rig for Jiggin under a bobber, and the other with a worm under a bobber. The last one I use either as a jig into structure, or in deeper water to troll with. Sometimes I use a minnow, and sometimes a crawfish. You gotta love hookin' up with a stray Smallmouth or large Jack Perch.
I like to fish one pole at a time to feel the thump but I am trying to learn to troll two poles one in each hand the trouble is I am so clumsy I'm afraid I am going to drop a rod over the side:yikes
not knocking trollers or anything like that,but is the hookup and releasing of smaller undersized fish rough on the ones turned loose? i know if i use a couple poles from shore and hook into some smaller ones,release them,before i leave my spot some are returning to the top. i guess what i'm asking if you release alot on 8-10 poles trolling , have you saw many floaters in the area you've fished?
I am still kind of shocked that people would ignore the research that was put into the fisheries management even when it showed improvement in the catch quality. I guess it just shows that this me first mentality is a very contagious disease.
Great read and good info!! I'm a little of both just depends on the situation and body of water for me.
i take my grandpa's advice, it's how you hold your mouth that counts
I fish a lake with a mixed limit of overs and unders and I think it works.
Single pole. Feel the thump ! Nothing like it !
Great article. A creel limit is a creel limit, no matter which technique you use. You can pole, troll, longline, tightline, push, pull, spider rig, alabama rig, or kentucky rig. It makes no difference. Most importantly - fishermen abide by the size & limit regulations & regulatory agencies enforce the size & limit regulations!!
Poler here! I think it's more entertaining trying to catch them by casting lures or slip bobbers.
great article, might have to try trolling.
Interesting information. I just pole fish and will try the trolling next summer. I can't seem to find the big crappie in the summer though. Maybe more baits out will do the trick1
Great article. Just statred trolling myself.
Just goes to show that fishing isn't all luck...some science involved!
great info
Thanks
Great read. 9" on lake wheeler, Al. It has made a difference in the size. You no I done it all. Trolled jigs & crankbaits. But it seems my one cork and jig out perform in size and quanity. Whe have a mostly shallow lake on the Tenn. river. Tons of shad. I grew up as a child with my uncle telling me to watch the bait fish around the bank or out in the lake. Mimic their movement and look at them in the light and cloudy days. Off course I watch him reel and twitch his rod tip. Or stop and go. He'd say no hurry son, slow down. Cause he'd no I was reeling to fast. We'd fish in a boat with a older man that had 2 to 3 Lews crappie poles. He never owned a rod, reel, or jig. He caught more crappie than anyone I've ever known ! It seemed alot less complicated back then......
great article........here in tx most of the lakes are10" and over but several have a must keep all up to the limit which I dont like....
BTW, I have never caught a limit of crappie........if that ever happened I believe I would start throwing them back after 5 or 6
caught.......Ive quit filling the freezer with fish and gone to keeping what I could eat immediately....thanks for the post.
bobbers