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Several years back our local paper ran story about a local man who caught a limit of crappie every single day of the year. 365 limits in a calendar year. That means rain or shine, front coming or not, that man caught a limit every day.
Mind you, here in east Texas we don't usually have a lot of real cold winter, but we get some 50" of rain a year on average.
His streak struck me as quite a feat. Anyone here ever come close to that?
While that is an impressive feat, that guy, if he kept those limits daily, had to eat a lot of fish or give them away to not be in violation of possession limits. What are the fish possession limits in Texas?
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My current consecutive days in a row is 1.
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Originally Posted by ET Fish
It's very possible. I'm thinking of cedar creek lake and someone that owns a house on the lake and sinks fish attractors around is dock AND has a boat to go clean out other docks too.... Absolutely possible.
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Originally Posted by Gone Fishin'
I'm almost as good as you. I'm only one day short of your feat :).Quote:
Originally Posted by ET Fish
If someone did that he would be in an overstocked body of water (probably small) and most of the fish wouldn't much bigger than a popcorn poot.
The lake is huge, 114,500 surface acres. If memory serves he lives on or very close to the lake. It has been years, but I seem to remember he was a minister? I'll try to find the article again.Quote:
Originally Posted by stormcloud
As to possession, a quick check of the TPWD site only mentions daily limit, no possession limit noted. I've never heard of one, but sadly, I probably have never been close to breaking it.:Rofl
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Originally Posted by stormcloud
Not true....I know a guy who had limited out 254 consecutive days and I quit keeping up with him after that, so I don't know what the final tally was but the fish were huge...come out of Old Hickory Lake and J Percy Priest Lake.
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I just wish I had more than two days in a row I could fish:yikes
I hear you. I could have attempted that up until about 2015.....since then it’s just a few days a week on the water and I’m spent.Quote:
Originally Posted by SKs Crappie Catching Adventures
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Possession limits vary by state. For example, some states don't count cleaned fish in the freezer at point of consumption as part of the possession limit. That's a lot of fish to catch. I don't keep up to close with how many days I even fish but I do know I made a long streak this year of catching limits of fish (not kept just on a counter). No where near 365 for sure LOL
I wouldn't think even a retired minister would fish on Sundays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gone Fishin'
I can't find the article, but I'm pretty sure it was written by Matt Williams for the Lufkin Daily News a long time back, maybe 20 years or so. I was struck by the feat even though I rarely fished back then.
I may be wrong about the minister part but it seems right to my feeble memory. I will have to drive down the road to tiny Zavalla Texas and ask around, someone at the bait shop will know who I'm talking about. I use his favored setup a lot, a heavy weight 1' above a small hooked 1/32 oz jig head using Little Fishies.
it is for sure possible to keep a limit every day you go to the lake in Texas , but its about this ...
number 1 Why would you ?
number 2 Why would you ?
number 3 Why would you ?
number 4 refer to questions 1 thru 3 :dono
sure would get tired cleaning all those fish
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I can’t remember.
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I forgot the question.
Dunno. Maybe he helped feed the less fortunate. If only for his personal and/or family consumption, I would agree. Why? I'm fishing a couple times a week these days and my family's tired of eating fish! And I'm not catching nowhere near LA's limits of 50/person.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
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Originally Posted by deltarat
I didn't mean there was anything wrong with it, just that he would be in church in the mornings and back for evening services.Quote:
Originally Posted by Techno2000
The over 12 inch rule slowed the charge for me but until I retired twice a month was about par . I keep way more red ear than crappie . About 75 crappie in the freezer and a few to eat along the way . No use letting females spend the winter in the deep freeze .
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Originally Posted by deltarat
My question is did he actually keep his limit or just caught his limit. Either way one heck of a feat.
I don't know if he kept them. That would be a lot of fish to clean! Just getting on the lake every day for a year would take a lot of dedication.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bricks
Yes....I’m about 11 years younger than Dude but he’s got the stamina to stay at it day after day....much more than me. He can sure lay it on the crappie.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugalfisherman
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