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Anyone else ever see the Electric shock boat the Agfc has?? I was fishing last year having a great day they rolled up by me and said "THEY WERE DOING A STUDY ON BUFFALO" as he smiled and said the fish wouldn't bite for 2 days after this!! I wanted to sink their boat or at least barrow it!! But he was right for the rest of the week fishing was dead slow!
Never seen it, and from what you say, I don't want to see it!!! :yikes
I saw them running that thing on Mallard Lake several years back at night. I just wanted to get my dip net and ride with them!
Yea doing studies my rear I said yea I bet more like a fish fry!!
99% of the fish they "survey" are released. They keep the fish they are after, and samples are taken. I worked with them on several shocking expaditions back in college, and the 1st time I asked about taking some home, they threatened to fire me on the spot. Sure woulda loved to have gotten my hands on some of them walleyes that were floating up infront of the boat back then.
What bodies of water did you survey, LM? And did you get to see some big ol' monster crappie?
I run into them all the time on Conway.
Always at night.
I was on Litte red river at Cow Shoals, 11 point, Ashbaugh. Those are what I remember. The only crappie I remember was those at Ashbaugh, btu that was back in the late 90's, and they were not big by any means (thats why i remmeber them). Used to fish it when I lived in NEA, before they killed/drained it.
We use electrofishing boats to sample our bass populations around the state. Most of the sampling using occurs at night in the spring. However, there are a few lakes that are either sampled during the day in the spring (due to really turbid water) or are sampled at night in the fall. Electrofishing is conducted in streams at night in the tail waters for trout or during the day in the fall for sport fish sampling. We see all species of fish while we are out however we are normally just conducting annual bass sampling unless the trout program is sampling trout. I would have to disagree with causing the fish to turn off for two days. We see fish actively feeding while we are sampling and had people catch fish after we have been sampling in an area.
I always thought shocking worked on skin fish??? Learn something new.
Yea it was over on little red in gin creek last year a bigger fella and a lady and it sure came to a halt!!!
I'd like to see what they get to see!!!
I was shocking with the trout program Monday evening on the Little Red River near JFK park and it was really impressive. We ran 11 samples, 10 minutes shocking each, and probably had our hands on over 500 fish. A little over 200 browns got tags and all fish were released unharmed. I second that I have fished shortly after shocking and it didn't bother fishing.
Trout or game fish I was crappie fishing
Never seen them , but would like to go along for a ride with em sometime
You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take country out of the boy
Seen em shocking at reelfoot last spring
Seem them on strawberry river think two years ago,doing a study on ky. Bass.
Those are tasty
I was going to ask them next time I seem them. They put in at Dans every spring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappie Greg