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How hard do you think it would be to get the department to stock a place with crappie? It is part of the Nueces River. I believe it is called Nueces Lake in CampWood. The county regulates it but not sure if they help out much with it. What do you all think?
The state of Texas has no breeding or stocking program for crappie either black or white is what the Athens fish hatchery told me , they say the fish take care of themselves and I think the spot you are talking about probably has crappie in it already anyway .I Pretty much have not seen many spots without crappie in them in Texas myself and in most cases its a little park or private water body if there are not crappie in it best I can tell .
You could get some folks together though if it don't have crappie in it and do the stocking yourself if you can get permission from the county to do so , they don't cost much and proliferate super fast in fertile waters...that's my 2 cents on it ....
I dont think there is any crappie in this part. I have never caught any. Now further south down the Nueces around Crystal City and that area yes it has crappie in it. I have looked at the stocking list for TPWD and have seen where they have stocked crappie before.
I think many years ago they did .....you might check back in with TPW and ask , I just know some of my buds took 3 lb fish to them thinking they would breed them and that was not the case when I called and inquired about 2 years ago
But . . . . . says otherwise
https://tpwd.texas.gov/fishboat/fish...allwater.phtml
If you look under Reports by Species it doesn't show any crappie!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarg
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Choke canyon shows some but it was many yrs agoQuote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu
many many moons ago some waters got stocked with them best I can tell ya .....but I heard tell when lake nano ichy whatever filled up it was up to the local game wardens and friends that had to go ketch crappie elsewhere to stock it a few years back .....and THEN that's all I know about that ....LOL
Depends on what lake(s) you look at
Plenty of small lakes show records of crappie stocking back to 1996
Many more will be updated here soon as the restocking of many lakes that dried up are now back to full/near full
Some lakes lost everything
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Originally Posted by skiptomylu
I guess i just need to call them and see what they tell me
1996 was over 20 years ago yawl ....but to be sure if you call they will tell ya
Just got off the phone with them. They told me they dont stock crappie because they have done it before and after evaluating it didnt seem to work. Not sure if they was stocking big fish or little fish. I am got tpwd coming out to evalute the lake this summer to see what we can do. Heck may not be able to do anything. Guy told me that I could get some people together and stock it with crappie we would just have to get a free permit from them to do it.
next problem is that the majority of breeders only have hybridized and black crappie for sale ...so you would have to get a permit to stock whites after you ketch legal ones elsewhere if that was in the program . it would seem to me that the water body like I said would have them anyway ...is it not prone to flooding like the rest of nueces river drainage ?
Yes but there is nothing above us. Where we are is almost the head of the river. It starts just above barksdale. Where i am talking is just south of camp wood on 55