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if you could ketch little crappie instead of nothing would ya ?
i hear folks say all the time i wouldnt waste my time on dinks and tater chips .....
i subscribe to the i want to ketch whatever is biting and little fish beats no fish to me .....
so thats the question ...a dozen of these ?
or be like the folks that left this spot to me ....
and ketch nada because they were only trying to ketch biggunz
lets hear what yawl think ....
Ketchn I agree with you. That is why I fish with 2# and sometimes 1# test line and different action UL rods and one XUL rod. There are some agency lakes close to me that are overrun with crappie.....thousands of them in the 9-10 inch range. I may have to fish all day to get a 15 fish limit of 10 inch fish but I keep them and give them to some needy folks who clean them whole. But catches of 100 fish a day are the norm in those lakes. It is a win win situation. I am having a ball and others are getting benefit also....and the crappie population is being thinned out.
Regards
I like catching any size, any species, any day.I like catching better than fishing.
I'll take what I can get when I can get it. Sometimes those little fellers teach u something new.
Put me down for the little ones too. If I'm not keeping them that who care. I just like that thump.
I like to catch.
I love catching anything. Heck I dont even complain when surf fishing and am catching hardheads. Sure I would rather catch quality fish but some days it aint happening. When bream fishing or speck fishing if I can catch 100 fish I can cull a meal. But if it dont happen so be it. And I am not a trophy hunter/fisherman by any means. Dont complain if I happen on one but not targeting them. Florida has slots on most trophy quality fish anyway so why harass em.
I like the catching part. Big or small, I just want the thump!!
My past history would give me up if I lied so I'll just tell the story. When I moved to TN from FL in '05 I had to buy my fish at the store. I stumbled into my first GOOD crappie up there in about the fall of '06. I could catch them some but not good ones and not regularly. I was hungry to find out what it took to catch more so I asked any and everyone about it and started learning how. I found Crappie.com and started asking questions, being taught by some of the local folks and fishing with them from time to time. They treated me very well and I still think that they are the best. At a local lake up there was "The Candy Store". Ray Charles could see fish there cuz there was so many. Now I had a classroom. There were days that I could catch a few good ones but a lot of the time it was nothing but dinks. There were days when I had 80 to 100 across the gunnel and be home before noon. No minnows. I got a chance to learn a lot about their behavior in the months after being told of this. Mostly I had more fun with my clothes on than any other time of my life. 4 lb test, Ultra lite rod, and 1/64 to 1/8 heads and many different bodies, but Panfish Assassins got the most play. The color game, the lift bite, different weight heads for when they were not active or suspended in front of the structure they were under. After, before , and during fronts. It was an education I couldn't have paid for. So in a long roundabout way to answer your question, yes. I would rather catch dinks than nothing. Every fish has a story to tell and something to teach you, if you just pay attention.
I love catching and I keep a few for a mess, large or small. A 10" crappie is made for the pan.
I'll catch dinks for awhile and then move...I subscribe to the theory that Big Fish and Small fish don't hang out together. Fish under 11 inches are safe around me!
I like catching keeping is optional :dono
Catching little ones beats nothing at all plus gives you something to do between the keepers!
I love catching whatever is biting...but as long as Im wastin time with the lil ones ....I cant be locating the big boys ! So I usually spend a lil time with the small ones and move on.
I take whatever will bite - and in some waters you have to take some out so others can get bigger
The smaller the Crappie, the smaller the pole.
I don't mind catching a few dinks as soon as I hit the water but it gets frustrating pretty quick.
When I start catching dinks I'll move and repeat till I find descent fish or give out . Have been know to beat the water for hours with little results but most times it pays off .
in this particular case there wasnt an option to go look elsewhere its private property on both sides of the spot i was at on the bank .
so looking for larger specimens didnt really come into play as an option on that particular outing
but i am very much the looking around type for larger fish if i am on the water
Anything that will pull that cork under....
there ya go .....I love watching it go under for sure ....but I love the lay up version as well ...Quote:
Originally Posted by kycreek
and the slight tick version is really cool ....folks watching always say ..you didn't even get a bite and set the hook ?
I always say the same thing ...I just did that just in case ...LOL
When 10 inch fish were legal my cull length was 10.25 today it's 12.25 . would have no problem going back .:biggrin