Thread: Game And Fish

Never seen it, and from what you say, I don't want to see it!!!

I saw them running that thing on Mallard Lake several years back at night. I just wanted to get my dip net and ride with them!

Yea doing studies my rear I said yea I bet more like a fish fry!!

99% of the fish they "survey" are released. They keep the fish they are after, and samples are taken. I worked with them on several shocking expaditions back in college, and the 1st time I asked about taking some home, they threatened to fire me on the spot. Sure woulda loved to have gotten my hands on some of them walleyes that were floating up infront of the boat back then.

What bodies of water did you survey, LM? And did you get to see some big ol' monster crappie?

I run into them all the time on Conway.
Always at night.

I was on Litte red river at Cow Shoals, 11 point, Ashbaugh. Those are what I remember. The only crappie I remember was those at Ashbaugh, btu that was back in the late 90's, and they were not big by any means (thats why i remmeber them). Used to fish it when I lived in NEA, before they killed/drained it.

We use electrofishing boats to sample our bass populations around the state. Most of the sampling using occurs at night in the spring. However, there are a few lakes that are either sampled during the day in the spring (due to really turbid water) or are sampled at night in the fall. Electrofishing is conducted in streams at night in the tail waters for trout or during the day in the fall for sport fish sampling. We see all species of fish while we are out however we are normally just conducting annual bass sampling unless the trout program is sampling trout. I would have to disagree with causing the fish to turn off for two days. We see fish actively feeding while we are sampling and had people catch fish after we have been sampling in an area.