What’s the thoughts on pole limits here and why it went to 3 poles instead of 4 so you could have equal poles on each side of boat?
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What’s the thoughts on pole limits here and why it went to 3 poles instead of 4 so you could have equal poles on each side of boat?
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State told me they didn't want more than 3 because people would catch to many fish. I laughed at them, and said what about the poachers? Got no answer to that.
It makes no sense. A limit is a limit. 1 pole or 20. I've been in the boat with people who couldn't catch a fish with 30 poles. Also know guys who only need 1. Either way....again...a limit is a limit.
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Wonder how we could get changed?
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Move to SC!Quote:
Originally Posted by kyrich
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Indiana DNR You can't fix stupid
limits on rods is totally ridiculous with a limit on fish. If the fish limit is 10 or 15 it doesn't matter if you use 50 poles or 1 you can still only keep the 10 or 15 allowed.
What he said ! X2 !Sent from my SM-G892A using Crappie.com Fishing mobile appQuote:
Originally Posted by bighornrmk
I believe you will find that PA has the same rule.
If it takes more than 3 poles for you guys to catch fish I would fish differently, or go find a different place or even body of water to fish. When I seldom but occassionally have my wife with me, I spend most of the time getting her into fish and don’t even use 3 poles and we still catch limits in 4 to 5 hrs of fishing. Just my :twocents but with the fishing pressure our lakes have right now I would hate to see allowing more poles allowed. I would rather see a size limit on crappies myself.
Were do usually limit out? You must keep 6 inch fish
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I very seldom EVER keep anything under 10” as you must not be seeing the pics I post. Fish West Boggs, Cataract, Raccoon, Lemon, but also, you won’t catch limits but still fish over 10” at Monroe and Patoka as both are on a really good comeback. Jig vertical, or long line jigs, or troll crankbaits. As my freezer fills up, so goes my size limit of releasing everything under 11”.
Lemon and Boggs are pretty much pay lakes with the launch fees in my book My question was why they ended with 3 poles instead of 4 with the limits
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So let's go back to the age old question why dont we just go to a 10" size limit. Just my two cents.
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well said
I would like to see some lakes in Indiana go to rules like Illinois has. If the total days catch limits is 25 per person, only keep 10 over say 10 or 11 or 12” and 15 under the size established being used on Patoka and Monroe to cull the millions of small crappies out of the lakes and stabilize the species. At least have DNR try something for a period of time to see if it improves the size of fish on the lakes. Then other lakes where the fishing pressure is heavy, go with a 10” size limit.
that sounds like a good idea to me
Sad to say, it will never happen. To much work on DNR’s part to put anything together to make it work, heaven forbid. . And they probably wouldn’t want to have more workload on their law enforcement division heaven forbid. They might have to hire a few more people heaven forbid. And lastly, DRN’s usable favorite excuse is Indiana’s growing season on crappie is too short doesn’t warrant they try anything. However, what our neighbor Illinois has been doing shows our DNR that what Illinois IS doing does worki
I totally agree
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I pretty much agree with Cevans, 3 poles are plenty.It would be a nightmare on some of our lakes if guys were using 6-7 poles in every boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by cevans
Limit is a limit. By the they are having structure build at patoka sat dec 7
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if there are 2 people in the boat spider rigging they'll have 6 poles in the water.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbowling
Why the heck have a structure build on Patoka when there are other lakes like the Cat. With no structure? Heck, Patoka has tons of trees and struture in it all over the lake. Sounds like a waste to me and they think that Patoka needs structure? I and other locals just watched DN R spend at least a quarter million dollars rebuilding a boat launch at Williams Dam using a hired contractor dig the parking lot out 2’ to 3’ deep, repack with white rock, then add a foot of layered asphalt and paint white parking lines on East Fork of the White River above the Dam, on Hwy 450, and nothing was wrong with the parking lot or launch other than ever time the river floods it 3-4 times a year it gets covered with silt and mud. Who the hell is going to clean all that new asphalt off next time it floods. And it took the contractor 2.5 months to complete. Darned River is full of Asian carp that has ruined the fishing. Stupid is stupid does!Quote:
Originally Posted by kyrich;[URL="tel:3921518"
We get Christmas trees in 4ft of water up here (Sally) that's our structure put in by DNR can get arrested if you get caught putting any of your own in
its always been 3. if it was more when i cant recall that. anyway i have a hard time keeping up with 3 most days.
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Most anglers never come close to catching a limit. A higher average number of poles in the water multiplies fishing pressure. 1 guy fishing two rods for 5 hrs is the same as 2 guys fishing 1 theoretically. So if everyone on the lake adds a rod thats a lot of added pressure and the average number of fish harvested goes up in kind. Most bag limits are essentially posession limits that serve to distribute the catch among more anglers on high pressured lakes. On most lakes they really don't do anything because in most lakes more crappies die at the hands of mother nature than due to fisherman.
In lots of lakes the fish take too long to get that big so a 10 inch limit means piles of 8-9+ inch fish die before anyone gets a chance to harvest them. The DNR doesn't want limits on lakes where it won't improve the fishing.
For what its worth there is no documented evidence that those limits in Illinois are doing anything. Most of the lakes they put that reg on were already producing numbers of big fish. I've fished carlyle, shelbyville, and rend for years. Those lakes have always produced big fish. I'll be a believer when I see some hard evidence that anything has changed.
I thought it was3poles since I started fishing 60 years ago fla and tenn I have used 20 poles
Never had a problem catching all the fish I ever wanted to catch with a 3 pole limit the dozen times I fished Canada, the years I spent chasing salmon on Lake Michigan, and other Great Lakes I fished as well as Lake Erie for walleye when I had a Great Lakes boat setup. Don’t have any problems with a 3 pole limit in Indiana. If anything, some states are decreasing their pole limits to 2 so be happy with 3.
Wow!!!! I started this thread to try and understand why the Indiana Dnr made it 3 pole limit instead of 4. I really don’t fish here much because of the poor fish quality and like I said don’t fish lemon or Boggs because of launch fees. If I fish here it’s mainly just southern ind and I mostly fish by myself. How many national tourneys are they in Indiana?
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How many national tourneys in Indiana?? :Rofl I fished quite a few but always in awesome lakes and bodies of water NOT in Indiana for sure in my day. :cheers2 Not much going on to chat about is the only reason I posted so I hope it didn’t get you unset as it’s dullsville with the ratty weather we been having. Just got my mega 360 but will have to wait on the software from Humminbird to run it and will probably be breaking ice somewhere to try it out at the rate Humminbird releases software updates. At least I can get it installed on the boat and that will have to suffice for now.
yeah but 2 guys would be would be 8 poles with 4 pole limit and so on..one guy with 4 poles not too big of a deal but when you get multiple boats fishing the same small area dragging 8 poles or more you can end up with a mess real easy especially trolling not so much spider rigging.Quote:
Originally Posted by wannabe fisherman
Yeah iam running non mega 360 curious what the mega 360 looks likeQuote:
Originally Posted by cevans
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You Hoosiers should consider your selves lucky, Ohio is still a 2 pole state, but I believe they are moving toward a 3 pole limit, Ky is unlimited too. As a crappie troller I am used to a 4 to 8 pole set up, also the cats guys like using multiple poles. I question the Ohio dnr every year at trade shows about the rule. If the quantity creel limits are unchanged a depletion of fish shouldn't be a issue right?
I don't see why there is even a pole limit. If there's a creel limit of say 15 fish, when you have that many you're done no matter how many poles you have out, unless you're going to take the chance of getting caught.
Nothing but dust on my spider rig rods since the Livescope was mounted... one pole mayhem ever since! If they get them down to affordable prices, spider rigging will be on a slow decline. It makes fishing so much easier, it's almost lost it's luster... I almost consider myself a "gamer" over an "angler" anymore, which is why my tournament days are probably numbered unless they outlaw them. Hunting is just as bad... I'm sure next year, your hunting cam will shoot a GPS tracking dart into the deer it takes a pic of and you'll know they location at all times. LOL
I didn't read the whole thread so I don't know if anyone else gave this reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Locator79
Think about this one thing. If Ind. let you use 4,5,6,etc. poles for crappy fishing then they would have to allow the same amount of poles for all fishing. Ind DNR would not want to allow more than 3 lines for gills, walleye, perch, etc. so that's probably why they would never change to allow more than 3 for crappie. Someone could set up their boat and push 5 poles making it look like they are crappie fishing when they're really fishing for walleye, gills, perch, etc.
I know there are states that allow more than 3, do they also alow the same amount of poles for gill, perch, etc.? If they don't I don't see how they can tell what the person is fishing for. You can catch walley, gills, perch on the same lures/bait that you get crappie on.
Why? The bag limit for all species would still be the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charly
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