10 inch at sardis?

The lake has finally caught up with the 12 inch rule and now they want to go back to 10 inches for a one year trial period and see how it affects the lake. With the 15 limit per person at 10 inches everyone will have a limit in about 90 minutes. If I was a crappie guide I would be so excited I would book 4 trips a day. They would be taking numbers at the boat ramp. There will be ALOT of fishermen at sardis this year without a doubt. Now everyone that comes down gets a limit. Going to be one interesting year can't wait to see what there survey finds out. My Geuss it's going to take a couple years to catch those over 10 inch fish until your going to have a problem with finding 10 inch fish. Last few years sardis has had a decline in fishermen due to finding over 12 inch fish. With that said my opinion is leave the 12 inch in place make it 15 on the limit and 30 per boat. I have feed my family of 6 on 15 crappie many times with leftovers. Also your allowed to have 7 limits on your possesion in travel per person. That should be changed to 2 limits per person. The one good thing I see that will help the crappie is that now when you catch one trolling and as many of us have done is now when you put one back in the water that was too small to keep and you know it's going to die because his gills are bleeding like a stuck hog he will become a keeper and not a waste. So in the future if they want to change trolling rules they can start with barbless hooks. Just my opinion on the new changes to come this march for sardis.

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Originally Posted by hotrod1

If I was a crappie guide I would be so excited I would book 4 trips a day. They would be taking numbers at the boat ramp.

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Daily boat limit kinda does away with that theory.

Look at it this way. With the 10 inch rule, even me and WB could catch a limit LOL

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Originally Posted by hotrod1

The lake has finally caught up with the 12 inch rule and now they want to go back to 10 inches for a one year trial period and see how it affects the lake. With the 15 limit per person at 10 inches everyone will have a limit in about 90 minutes. If I was a crappie guide I would be so excited I would book 4 trips a day. They would be taking numbers at the boat ramp. There will be ALOT of fishermen at sardis this year without a doubt. Now everyone that comes down gets a limit. Going to be one interesting year can't wait to see what there survey finds out. My Geuss it's going to take a couple years to catch those over 10 inch fish until your going to have a problem with finding 10 inch fish. Last few years sardis has had a decline in fishermen due to finding over 12 inch fish. With that said my opinion is leave the 12 inch in place make it 15 on the limit and 30 per boat. I have feed my family of 6 on 15 crappie many times with leftovers. Also your allowed to have 7 limits on your possesion in travel per person. That should be changed to 2 limits per person. The one good thing I see that will help the crappie is that now when you catch one trolling and as many of us have done is now when you put one back in the water that was too small to keep and you know it's going to die because his gills are bleeding like a stuck hog he will become a keeper and not a waste. So in the future if they want to change trolling rules they can start with barbless hooks. Just my opinion on the new changes to come this march for sardis.

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Have you fished Sardis lately??? It's a different lake than last spring. I haven't caught 15 shorts in any one trip the last 4 months. And yes I fished it last spring when u would catch 100 to 200 a day. U folks that think limits are going to be automatic now are fooling yourselves.


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Instead of booking one trip a day you could book 4 three hour trips a day and just about limit out if the new rules go in to place. A lot of guides b

You have until February 15th to send your ideas on how things should be done the to Executive Director. Really won't do much good in here. We can't help. Here's the link to what was covered in a recent meeting on the subject.
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/missi...g-summary.html

A lot of guides book two half day trips. The last time I fished sardis was in November. Me and the wife caught 52 and kept 40 fished from 10 to 4. I have been looking at those tailgate pictures of limits the month of December and I've seen a few nice ones in January. The last 3 years about 90 percent of the time iam catching 100 to 130 a day. Going home with 8-12 had fun everytime. So there are tons of crappie left in the lake. So if you got a brain and a heartbeat and keep your baited hook in water you will get your limit everyday. I could take 15 yoyos put minnows on them and I bet you could just about get your limit. Long as the bass and catfish stay away. Like I said its going to be interesting. Can't wait to wet a hook. By the way were still eating on those 40 we caught.

I got a brain and a heartbeat and I only caught a limit twice last fall. Guess I was doing something wrong though:) maybe I was just a little short in the leg department:) or maybe I just suck!


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What iam trying to say handi is that anything over 10 inch and a limit of 15 is going to be very easy now. I've fished sardis for 10 years now and live 5 miles from hurricane boat ramp. I go whenever I can. Whatever rules they make iam game. The guys in charge of these rules remind me a lot of my company's CEO can't seem to make up there minds. We want to go after big business for awhile now let's go after small business for awhile. Same with crappie size. Going back to my main reason for this thread is that sardis has finally got to the point of producing fish over 12 now and they want to go back. I say leave those 10-12 inch fish alone and let them spawn its working out great.

I'm just giving you a hard time..... I do think more people will possibly catch limits but I just think it will be a little harder than some folks think. After talking with several folks I to wish they would stay at a 12 inch limit. Might be a couple of lean years coming up due to poor spawns but all lakes go through cycles. It actually wouldn't hurt my feelings if they went to a 10 fish/12 inch limit for the next year or two.


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I'm just giving you a hard time..... I do think more people will possibly catch limits but I just think it will be a little harder than some folks think. After talking with several folks I to wish they would stay at a 12 inch limit. Might be a couple of lean years coming up due to poor spawns but all lakes go through cycles. It actually wouldn't hurt my feelings if they went to a 10 fish/12 inch limit for the next year or two.


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Do you HOTROD1 want to be a Crappie Guide at Sardis? 10 inch or 15 inch I ALWAYS catch my limit, no matter what! JS....

Do you want to be a "Crappie Guide" on Sardis Lake HotRod? It doesn't matter what rules they implement this year, I always catch my limit! ;)

Babygirl i want to fish with you. If u catch limits everytime

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Instead of booking one trip a day you could book 4 three hour trips a day and just about limit out if the new rules go in to place. A lot of guides b

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The limit is on the boat. If I catch a boat limit with a group, I can't take another group out .

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Originally Posted by feelay

The limit is on the boat. If I catch a boat limit with a group, I can't take another group out .

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You do have two boats.......

I ain't fixin to try and work THAT hard!nonono

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I ain't fixin to try and work THAT hard!nonono

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I know i was jacking with you. You know guiding is so easy and all and limits easy to come by.:D:D

Yep, and the hundreds of guides are rapeing the lake. Catching boat limits every day.:rolleyes:

All I can eat is the limit they place on me anyways.....I have fish fries once a month with my family and there is always plenty to go around.

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Originally Posted by BabyGirl

All I can eat is the limit they place on me anyways.....I have fish fries once a month with my family and there is always plenty to go around.

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The law doesn't allow an AYCE limit for BigH, or me either for that matter! :biggrin

Where do you fish at BabyGirl?

She logged off...what a tease!:biggrin Her profile says Sardis.

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She logged off...what a tease!:biggrin Her profile says Sardis.

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You know its getting that time of yr again....

I'm just lucky to get to fish

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I am sorry, but I just do not believe the problem we have at Sardis is due to a bad spawn. I think it is supply and demand. The supply is running short of the demand. I have fished there for over 30 years and the numbers of those fishing continues to rise each year. More people from out of state, more during the pre-spawn through the post spawn and many more trollers and I shed no negative light on any group. To each his own! Like it or not, we need a reduced limit, we need a season on trolling, we need a lower limit on boats with more than three people in them. We need management and conservation to continue this as a great place to fish. Looks like to me if the Corp would raise the water level all this conversation would be a mute point, the bass fishing would get back to a point you would actually see people bass fishing there again like you did in the 70's and the crappie in their own management and conservation would take care of business for us. If we all and I mean all began to talk to our congressmen and women, all the folks that come to the big 4, we might begin to see the Corp have more of a listening ear rather than a kiss my butt attitude on the water level.

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I am sorry, but I just do not believe the problem we have at Sardis is due to a bad spawn. I think it is supply and demand. The supply is running short of the demand. I have fished there for over 30 years and the numbers of those fishing continues to rise each year. More people from out of state, more during the pre-spawn through the post spawn and many more trollers and I shed no negative light on any group. To each his own! Like it or not, we need a reduced limit, we need a season on trolling, we need a lower limit on boats with more than three people in them. We need management and conservation to continue this as a great place to fish. Looks like to me if the Corp would raise the water level all this conversation would be a mute point, the bass fishing would get back to a point you would actually see people bass fishing there again like you did in the 70's and the crappie in their own management and conservation would take care of business for us. If we all and I mean all began to talk to our congressmen and women, all the folks that come to the big 4, we might begin to see the Corp have more of a listening ear rather than a kiss my butt attitude on the water level.

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them lakes were built for one reason and it aint fishin

Yes baby girl I would love to be a guide you can be my first client free of charge of course.

This isn't a dating site...try friendfinders.com.

I am not a tease! I have other things to do! But to answer your question I fish at Sardis all the time, live 1 mile from Hurricane Landing. Maybe I will see some of you out there this spring. :)

it is getting close to valentines day x0x0x0x0x

thank you FEELAY! It is not a dating site, I AM MARRIED TO A FISHERMAN ANYWAYS, thank you!

I sent a suggestion of allowing 5 fish between 10" and 12", and 10 over 12" with a boat total of 40. This allows "tourists" to catch fish to keep while not ruining the chances of fish to reach super slab size.

Someone always mentions out-of-staters. Guess what! ALL COE lakes were constructed by the US taxpayers. Not just Mississippians. They are maintained by US taxpayers. This fact really makes these COE lakes truly public lakes. So when someone blames the out-of-state fishermen they really don't know what they are speaking of. Would anyone care to compare what they spend, as a resident, on a fishing trip to one of the big 4 to what an out-of-state angler spends? Might surprise some folks. I personally don't keep track of what I spend because it's my enjoyment and I don't mind spending it.

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Originally Posted by hotrod1

Instead of booking one trip a day you could book 4 three hour trips a day and just about limit out if the new rules go in to place. A lot of guides b

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Since it is a boat limit, ethics kinda rules that out. If guides did as you say then the rules are useless anyway.

This is what I read today:

Best luck lately has been trolling for crappie with jigs and/or minnows. A club tournament Saturday was won with 16.29 lb (7 fish); big fish was 2.95 lb. Most teams brought in 7 fish limits and there were numerous fish over 2 lb weighed in.

Seems like they are catching good fish.

All this other commentary and opinion is the same junk spit out by all the "experts" when it seemed a 12 inch fish was hard to come by. All you anecdotal experts need to leave it to the people that are actually doing the studies. If you want to pick on trollers, why not pick on live bait folks. They probably catch more crappie than those trolling.

Even the report of the meeting seems that there are the vocal few who refuse to listen to actual data since they wouldn't let the speaker finish with the report of actual electro fishing studies.

I see people post pictures on here a few days in a row of a tailgate full of fish. I know someone this last year posted a picture with like 92 crappie in the back of a truck (some folks on here even commented about it). It looks like pictures of Bass from the 50s and 60s or deer in the early 1900s. Crappie fishermen need to take a lesson from the Bass folks. As the sport grew they knew they had to limit themselves to have a future fishery. I know Crappie are good eating, but you don't have to take the limit home every time you go. This type of fishing, especially around here, is growing leaps and bounds and will only get bigger. I am pretty sure there are more folks Crappie fishing at Sardis than Bass fishing now. Ten years ago it was 10 to 1 Bass Fishing. The most Crappie I ever took home on one trip was 11 and they were all over 14 inches. Otherwise I try to keep between 4 to 6 if my freezer doesn't have a good supply and I am lucky to fish one day a week.

So as I said in the past, it seems the MDWFP is keeping good track of situation and I will trust them to make the best decisions for the fishery, not the vocal anecdotal experts.

So what y'all are saying is mississippi guides can only take one trip a day. Or are you saying you can only catch the boats limit a day. I would like to know because I see where guides can book half day trips. I don't have a problem with out of state fishermen there just fishermen no racist here. What I don't like seeing is whether its someone in state camping or an out of state person camping or those with fish camps that stay for a month and catch limits of fish and have there buddies come down and haul off 7 limits yes that's legal and yes that's happening I haven't seen that much of it at the camps lately but it will come back with the changes coming. That's why I think it should be limited to 2 limits per person.

It is a boat limit..... One boat can only take 50 fish out of the lake a day under the current rules regardless of how many people fish off of it. A half day trip only means the guide is charging a smaller fee for less hours. You are implying that guides are doing this to take more trips in a day which I believe is completely false. Maybe Feelay can chime in to clarify for us.


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After reading some post it looks like boat limit a day per boat. If that's the case most trips will be half day trips. Most not all. I understand weather plays a huge factor.

well I'm one of those "out-of-staters" who fishes at sardis. I've been fishing there about 7 yrs and haven't caught the limit but about 3 times but I have fun everytime I get to go. I ALWAYS catch fish and enough to feed my family. The 15 limit is good as long as people abide by the rule BUT you know someone will break the rule. Raise the penalty to where if you get caught bringing out more than you are supposed to, to suspended from fishing for 3 yrs. Make it bad for the law breakers. The 12" rule is good but I think going back to a 10" rule is bad. In 3-4 yrs there won't be any big fish cause they got caught when they were 10". This 10" rule means that you will have to get to the ramp about 1-2 hrs earlier to get a spot to park. I might try night fishing!