Thread: No more regulations!

Sure would be nice to catch 10 - 1 3/4 to 2 lbers in a day in Ga., kinda like I have done elsewhere's. 10 is all you need for that size. Hey come to think of it, it sure would be nice to have a chance at a 3 or 3.5 lber here in Ga. , my grandson would love it, so would yours. I quit meat fishing a long time ago and I'm only after big ones, I think the only way to get big ones is to let em grow. Works for deer, bass, trout, reds ...... it will work for crappie too. I would like to point out that I have had great stringers of fish here in ga. years ago,but that was before the massive amounts of people started crappie fishing and all the technology we have now was not available.

How about a new slogan?

"Gotta be 10 or throw 'em back in!" :D

All this talk about soo much work it takes to do makes me laugh. I mean really the only reg we have on crappie here in Ga is 30 per day per person. All it would take is another sentence in the rule book and the game wardens that are already on salary to enforce it. I mean they enforce it on bass and they are in the same lakes and rivers that we fish for crappie.

Juvenile fish should not be harvested. I think that most all of us would agree on this

The goal is to increase the average fish size.

How to accomplish this is the question.

Wrong

1-Self policement will not work, thats why we have DNR to begin with.

2-Taxes rising from extra workload on DNR is untrue , if you are checked for 30 fish, one minute later you will have been checked for the length.

3-Education is already there and this did bring awareness but it hasn't yet helped with the decline.

Bring something to the table that may work.


Right

A 10 inch limit is PROVEN to work at just that. So far this is what we have to work with.

I have yet to see any other reasonable ways to accomplish this goal.

Have you?

Since we're gonna encourage the DNR to regulate us, why don't we just go all the way?
How about regulating how many hours a day one can fish?
Or better, how about how many days a week one can fish?
Nothing wrong with setting a fishing season... is there?

This is why I have concerns about more DNR regulations. I don't agree with any of the above ideas. But those are ideas that could come to pass.. with the support of more regulations.

I wholeheartedly support putting back the little fish. What I won't support is giving the Government more control over my choices.

Gotta be some middle ground without getting the more regulations.
I'll admit I don't have the solution.

"Gotta be 10 or throw 'em back in!" I kinda like that!

Looking at this another way...

It seems to me that what the supporters of this idea are really saying is that you don't necessarily want the DNR to regulate what you are doing on the water. But your willing to take that regulation, as long as everyone else is regulated as well, in order to benefit the greater good in the long run. The folks reading these pages are doing a pretty good job at self regulation and tossing back the little one's to grow to big ones. This is a good thing, and I applaud this as it is very sportsman like and benefits us all in the end. If this indeed is how you fish, you are one of the good guys.

(My opinion here)
What really is going on is supporters of this idea want laws to regulate what it is that others are doing that you don't like. You want to use the power of the Government to make your ideals a reality for all that fish. A fisher that is keeping the dinks and hurting the population is indeed bad for future fishers. I agree that this is poor conduct and should be admonished.
However,
Legislating morality and using the power of the Government to obtain your goals is a very slippery slope... even on the water.
I'm done...

Well said POfisher, Amen brother!

All of yall come on to Mississippi and fish the Corp lakes with us. Here the Regulations state the fish must be OVER 12" to keep. Have thrown back way more than I have kept in the years past but the fishing is getting Better each year because of the REGS.

Granada Lake where Satdoc fishes reguarly, what another great fishery and success story, lets all take our money outta State to go over there to catch a trophy and a nice mess a fish and support all their businesses. Makes good sense right? I do understand the rules and regs thing and not wanting to be governed blah blah blah. I admit that I don't like some of the idiotic ones we have now, for instance trying to chase someone for hunting over a little corn when you can kill 12 deer per season.... The thinking that the DNR has to be funded to enforce a 10" limit could actually be self funded through increased park fee usage etc, if they only knew how to make money instead of spending it. At Talquin it dosen't take much enforcing at $200.00 per fish under 10". I'm scared to try it and besides you don't have to ,there's simply no need for it.

This thread sounds like QDM all over again. Same as with hunting, those that ONLY WANT TO CATCH BIG FISH want to impose new rules and regs to satisfy what it is theyre after at the expense of everybody. I have to agree with PoFisher. I dont like the idea of us fishermen imposing new laws on ourselves. We certainly have enough uneducated people in politics doing that for practically everything we do in life now. I for one will keep 8 or 10 messes a year of smaller fish to fry whole since me and my son enjoy them better that fillets all the time. (There's 4 in my family so I fillet for my wife and daughter 100% of the time.) Most of the time I hardly ever keep ANY fish, unless I'm "fish hungry" for some fresh fish. Filleting is WAY easier so that's the size I usually will even think about keeping. But I aint speaking just about what "I" want. What about the kids or the wife that goes fishing with you three times a year?!? Wanna have to tell them they have to throw back EVERYTHING they caught today? (Same as telling 'em they cannot shoot a deer 'cause the horns aint big enough, according to the groups of people that make that rule into law.) All's I'm saying is what's a trophy (fish or deer) to one man might not be a trophy to another.

Now I know this'll probably get shot full of holes. And that's OK, cause I said what I came here to say.

Lastly....DNR?!? You mean there's still game wardens in Georgia? I havent seen one on the lake or in the woods for a full year or longer now. Musta been that 40% reduction I read about.

man you can catch big crappie from this stump..we have brothers on seperate sides, people that don't agree most of the time on the same side. I am going to politic here a minute. I think we need more study before we go statewide. Some lakes have to many small crappie because it is overpopulated or another fish is taking it's food. Some because they are over fished. That is putting it simple. Even Alabama has a 9 inch limit. Lowering the creel limit on some lakes might help.. they need to study what each lake needs but I can bet you the funds are not there..
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