Is This The Beginning

Is this the beginning to less rods on all of the BIG 4 per person, I think so. I propose we get our crap together and figue out how to get our (trollers) voice heard before this gets out of hand. Dont have a clue where to start but we need to be finding out and have it together by fall. At this point Sardis and Genada are at 3 poles each with Butla and Enid being 5, maybe a compromise ot make em all 4 ay be in order, would be better than them lowering the all to 3, which I think is the next step unless we speak up.

I'm with ya John. Personally I'm not against 3, but it is a lot easier to remember 4 across the board, and you don't have to buy 5 poles got one lake and only use 3 on the other. It's a slippery slope. And I don't want to see it go down to 1 per person

Now that's what I'm talking about. And we don't need to wait till fall. We need to have this mistake corrected NOW. This change on Sardis WAS NOT based on biological data. It was based on public pressure.
You need to contact the MDWFP Fisheries Chief Ron Garavelli:
[email protected]

And your MDWFP commissioner:
http://www.mdwfp.com/administration/...bileCommission


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You are correct ATM but if you remember correct folks were complaing about not catching keepers well the state listened lowerd the size limit took some poles away and now we still have people complaing

There is a "meeting" that happens in December that is hush hush and where this crap started at
Grenada and now at Sardis, that was my reason for saying fall. We need to be at this meeting and stand our ground o it will be three or less on all 4. 90% of us are set up in 4s anyway.
Good link Chaney, we need to start calling now.
As far as econoically speaking would say that more of the out of state folks troll than do single pole but I may be mistaken about this.

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Originally Posted by slabin

You are correct ATM but if you remember correct folks were complaing about not catching keepers well the state listened lowerd the size limit took some poles away and now we still have people complaing

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There were a lot more complaints about Enid the last 2 yrs than Sardis.. They didn't change anything there.. I realize they wanna preserve the fishery but having 3 different regulations for 4 lakes is ridiculous..

sardis is were everybody goes

I say lets go for 5 or 6 poles. Do t give an inch. We're not wrong. And John you're right. Short if it whizzing off the governor it ain't gonna get changed until the next go around this fall/winter. It just infuriates me they ignore the biological data and respond to public pressure. The science is on our side.


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Ask for 6 for sure. Ms Bowhunters Assn has been fighting a battle that is much the same and if we dont get our crap together we will be run over.
Who spends more money on their hobby, hell my trolling motor cos than alot of single-polers spend. And if you just look at a daily basis the trollers spend WAY more day in day out.

Single-polers I mean no offense to you, I luv it as much as anyone but I also luv to fish year round and like to troll.

Help a new guy out here...if they've established a limit on the number of fish...why does anyone care how many poles you use to get the limit? 15 fish...is 15 fish...no matter how you caught them. What is the argument being used to reduce the number of poles?

Jealousy mainly

One of you computer guys get a letter typed up and lets start getting signures and such together.

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If all the guys on here who are old enough to remember and did any Bass fishing back in late 70's and early 80's. It was Sardis that everyone in this part of the country fished at the time. All the pressure that was put on the lake and the complaining resulted in the slot limits being placed on all 4 lakes. Excuse was to preserve the fishery. Actually hurt it because most never kept any fish anyway and resulted in a lake full of small fish. That particular fishery has never really gotten back to what it was back then. Don't have any idea how this is going to affect us in the long run but I am all for conservation done the right way. My belief is there is more politics than conservation involved in this particular deal. As ATM and Rees have said we need to figure out how to make our voice heard before it's to late.

That statement by the Warden that 3 poles would slow people down from getting their limit,going home and coming back and getting another is Ridiculous . If it was that easy to get a limit with 5/10/15 poles Feelay, John Woods and others would be done by 10 AM every day. I'm sure they wish they could get 2 half day trips in every time they took out customers instead of one. That's not to say it dosnt happen at times but to believe it happens all the time and can be done by just anyone with a bunch of poles ain't happening. I'm a testament to that. I'll be lucky to get my limit of 15:Rofl just make my 10 or 12 sound better.:biggrin ok I'm through with my Rant now.

I propose no trolling at arkabutla and hammer the chit out of the other lakes

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One of you computer guys get a letter typed up and lets start getting signures and such together.

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OK, baby steps. I have been on the phone with a contact that has been dealing with this kinda situation for a very long time. I will call in the morning and find out when the next meeting of the commision is and get on the ajenda (SP) to share our concerns. this will be a week day and I will need 15 or 20 folks with me. They will not act on our concerns at this time but will get us lined up to be back when they make decisions about changes such as we have just seen. Its a long had row to ho and it will be a continuous one but I a in if yall are.

I sent my opinion to em

Let me know when, I can take a day off. If we need signatures, we have the DSU biology dept that I know a bunch of outdoorsman in, not to mention quite a few outdoors society members at state and ole miss.

i'll sign whatever whenever!!

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Let me know when, I can take a day off. If we need signatures, we have the DSU biology dept that I know a bunch of outdoorsman in, not to mention quite a few outdoors society members at state and ole miss.

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There were a lot more complaints about Enid the last 2 yrs than Sardis.. They didn't change anything there.. I realize they wanna preserve the fishery but having 3 different regulations for 4 lakes is ridiculous..

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if you remember it was (12 inch rule) was intended for grenada, but public outcry caused the coe to say if we do it on one do it on all . think you are correct john , better try to shut the gate before it's a done deal (jmo) . its not the coe lakes themself . many of these folks jig and troll . the folks in vicksburg/omaha call the shots .

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Originally Posted by Rees Guide

Ask for 6 for sure. Ms Bowhunters Assn has been fighting a battle that is much the same and if we dont get our crap together we will be run over.
Who spends more money on their hobby, hell my trolling motor cos than alot of single-polers spend. And if you just look at a daily basis the trollers spend WAY more day in day out.

Single-polers I mean no offense to you, I luv it as much as anyone but I also luv to fish year round and like to troll.

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JUST MY OPINION if folks would stop thinking there is a crappie season when we all know crappie bite year round and feesh can be caught year round on a single pole what difference does it make how many rods you have just plain stupid to me when you can catch a limit on one pole or 5 its the same limit of feesh if someone wants to get better at this sport of crappie feeshing you have to have a huge arsenal of weapons and spider rigging is one of them and this comes from a single poler since the age of 8

Just got off he phone with MDWFP and the next meeting will be in Jackson on the 17th of April, still got some hoops to jump thru tho. The next step is to email the Commision secretary and ask to be added to the agenda of the next meeting and they will advice when we can get this time, may not be in the April meeting. Will be sending the email in a little while and will post back the response.
Here's what we need when we go down there, BODIES of residents of the state of MS to back the speaker, minimum of 20 or so. We have to have our junk together and not propose or say anything that cant be backed up.

partner, you know i'm in, let me know what i can do to help

Heard back from the secretary, will compose a letter this weekend and have it waiting on her Monday morning. The meeting will be at noon April 17th, gonna need some of the Jackson guys to go with us. Got four or five comitted to go down from up here.
All the talk in the world wont get it done, we gonna have to put some effort into it.

This is an argument I've never understood. Personally, I think it's all fueled by greed. I'm with the person that said a limit is a limit. Don't matter if it takes 10 minutes or 10 hours... If you used 1 pole or 6...
I took a feller fishing the other day that was a 100% single pole jig fisherman.. I put out 6 pole, got the trolling motor set and sat back and played net man. When we were cleaning fish... He thanked me and said " man, I never knew what I was missing. I'm fixing to get set up an do more of this"

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This is an argument I've never understood. Personally, I think it's all fueled by greed. I'm with the person that said a limit is a limit. Don't matter if it takes 10 minutes or 10 hours... If you used 1 pole or 6...
I took a feller fishing the other day that was a 100% single pole jig fisherman.. I put out 6 pole, got the trolling motor set and sat back and played net man. When we were cleaning fish... He thanked me and said " man, I never knew what I was missing. I'm fixing to get set up an do more of this"

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Did the same thing several times since I started slow trolling, catching fesh is fun, no two ways bout it.