Watched Matt and his G&FC buddies collect crappie at Lake Conway in the cove. They were catching so
many Matt was not strong enough to lift the nets. Matt how long had the nets been out?
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Watched Matt and his G&FC buddies collect crappie at Lake Conway in the cove. They were catching so
many Matt was not strong enough to lift the nets. Matt how long had the nets been out?
They were out for 24 hours. We will run them the next 2 days as well. The cove is still loaded with crappie. We averaged 150 crappie per net. Very good! The nets were also loaded with redear, yellow bass, and shad. Each net weighed 200+ pounds. Not good for someone with a bad back. This is why we bring a big crew on Lake Conway. Thursday it will be my privalege to show Cmj the ropes, since he has taken me fishing a few times. After he is done, he may think of it more as punishment. Jk. It is always a good time on a netting boat. Most of the time anyway.
We saw several that were between 2 and 2.5 pounds. We also saw so much shad on the sonar. In 10 foot or water the shad formed a false bottom up to about 5 feet. There are still plenty of fish in the cove, to say the least. Right now I imagine they are gorging on shad.
Matt do y'all do any netting on any other parts of Conway during this time of year
We also net in Caney Creek. We sampled there last month. Not as many crappie in Caney like mist years. I think probably due to the lack of runoff into Camry Creek.
I bet the nothing like netting some big fish
I think i would like catching big fish with a big Jig Pole better. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Gindog
I KNOW I would rather catch big ones on a rod.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrappiePro
Glad to know the fish are there.
Matt what do y'all do with all the fish you net??
Guess I'll go someplace else in the morning. Maybe find one of these secret lakes. Maybe even find a decent report on here again some day. To those of you who made this a good forum and still try thanks:)) I have always tried to be honest and make good post when I got to go. Which isn't near enough. This is the only state forum that wants to play this buddy click ****. Matt thanks for being up front for a while and doing what you can to help the fisheries in the area and to those who made an effort to make this a good forum. This is my last post I just don't need the games that kids want to play.
We take 10 fish of each inch size class for age and growth analysis. This data is used in our crappie assessment. The assessment is based on 5 parameters of a fish population: density, growth rate, size structure, age structure, and recruitment. To be able to calculate these parameters, we need to know the ages of the fish. Generally we collect all of the fish we need for this within the first month of sampling (October). All other fish are measured and thrown back. On an average year we will age around 200 to 250 crappie and throw back upwards of 10,000. It is pretty awesome to see that kind of production year in and year out.
Jeff- we only have 3 nets in the pool and hardly anyone was fishing. The fish are definitely there and I have a feeling they are in the deeper water away from our nets. I think it would still be worth your while to give it a shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappiejeff
Check your pmsQuote:
Originally Posted by Crappiejeff
Redears??
:crazy:
DP
Crappie Jeff, calling folks kids sure won't get you any information or help you desire. Not sure what you hoped to gain by your response on this thread! Instead of hijacking this one I started a new thread "fishing reports". To maybe give you some insight.
Now a big mess of these dudes will make me leave the duck woods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by DRPEPPER
I love those things! Than trying to explain to the wife how scales got everywhere from the butter dish in the fridge to the tue compartment of my vitamin holder.
The Gold Creek, the flat, and the cove is LOADED with redear. Wish I could figure out how to catch them in the winter!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rookie40
I never would have thought of the flat having redears this time of year. This might have to be an outing soon.
Let me clarify, the areas of the flat that we sample are near the interstate bridge, the island, and the highway bridge (areas located adjacent to the creek chanel)and those areas are loaded with readear. I am not sure about the other parts of the flat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rookie40
Makes since. Thanks for clarifying. I'm probably wrong but one would think on sunny days they would move up around the island and somewhat onto the flats.
So what your saying is you only used this site as a fishing report forum and have never tried to become friends with anyone on here or attended any of the click crappie camps, this site has lots of good folks on it , just some are learning that it hurts there fishing if they tell the whole state where and how to catch em, with no effort from any of the lurkers except show up and start reeling em inQuote:
Originally Posted by Crappiejeff
Here is some eye candy for yall. 2.6 pounds in Gold Creek near the Hwy 365 Bridge. They are still out there Boys! We had one net that was so heavy that three of us barely got it into the boat. It probably had 350 pounds of fish in it.
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I love it everyone goes straight to the hole me included. LOL!!!!!
Matt you killing all the lurker with them 2.6 pound fish. You will not be able to run your net now with all the boat following you around.Quote:
Originally Posted by D10
Matt, whats the average size in those nets this time of year compared to early fall.
We see crappie from 3 inches up to 16 inches every month we sample (October, November, December). It is hard to say what the average size is because we catch more of the YOY (young-of-year) crappie that were spawned this past spring, in our December sample than the other two months. This makes the average lenght go down this month. However, if you were to take those fish out of the data, there probably wouldn't be a significant difference in the average length of fish we sample. Make since? I know you are really just interested in the average size of "catchable" crappie anyway. Sorry, the short answer is there in not significant difference between the average size of "catchable" crappie in Gold Creek from October to December.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rookie40
10-4
good reports thanks