Main Forage Food for Crappies In Weiss Lake?

**RogerA** · 03-27-2019, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by lowe175

Lakes go up and down for many reasons. People taking to many fish is not the problem most of the time . It's weather is the main reason. I can promise you if the out of state people quit coming the Weiss the local economy will suffer greatly. But to the question asked, I think thredfin are there favorite but when on the banks blue hill fry are a big part of there diet.

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What is blue hill fry? Never heard of it.

**Slabprowler** · 03-27-2019, 07:01 AM

I’m sure he ment Blue gill !

**Child of God** · 03-27-2019, 08:39 AM

What would do the most damage to the crappie population of any lake, out of state folks coming and fishing a couple times a year, catching and cleaning 15 fish a day for 5 days, total 75 fish and twice a year would be 150 fish. Or the local guys that fish the lake two or more times a week and keep 15 fish each trip, two trips a week would be 30 fish a week and many fish it year round, that would be about 1500 fish a year. Neither the locals or the out of state guys catch a limit ever time they go fishing, but over the year a guy fishing a given lake regular will keep 10 times or more fish that a twice a year visitor will. And they will enjoy the nice lunching ramps with floating docks, that were built by tax dollars, collected by folks from every state, and they stop and buy bait at the local bait stores, that the tourist dollars spent help keep open. Because a lake in located in a state we live in doesn’t make it ours, or give us more rights than any visitor, we are all American tax payers and share all lakes. Like it or not, just fish and enjoy what we are blessed with, each state has folks that are payed to worry about and take care of our lakes, life is to short for me to worry about controlling a lake and who is fishing it,

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**Tony the Tiger** · 03-27-2019, 08:48 AM

Right now in the flooded delta it’s crawfish

**lowe175** · 03-27-2019, 11:09 PM

Yep blue gill fry, dang auto correct!

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**liftbite56** · 03-28-2019, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by Centerliner

A type of minnows? Which type?

If its shad, which type, or types do the crappie have to primarily target?

Do different seasons change their primary food source?

Thanks guys.

what I’ve caught in a shad net, have been mostly thread fin. There are incredible amounts of shad at Weiss. As for forage, I’ve done a little reading, white crappie are bait fish eaters where the black crappie eat aquatic Insects ,larva and bait fish. One thing in my short experience at Weiss seems that size of your bait does play a factor. I prefer a larger bait when, fishing, at Weiss the smaller profile baits do very well. Just my .02

**CrappieFlopper** · 03-29-2019, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by Child of God

What would do the most damage to the crappie population of any lake, out of state folks coming and fishing a couple times a year, catching and cleaning 15 fish a day for 5 days, total 75 fish and twice a year would be 150 fish. Or the local guys that fish the lake two or more times a week and keep 15 fish each trip, two trips a week would be 30 fish a week and many fish it year round, that would be about 1500 fish a year. Neither the locals or the out of state guys catch a limit ever time they go fishing, but over the year a guy fishing a given lake regular will keep 10 times or more fish that a twice a year visitor will. And they will enjoy the nice lunching ramps with floating docks, that were built by tax dollars, collected by folks from every state, and they stop and buy bait at the local bait stores, that the tourist dollars spent help keep open. Because a lake in located in a state we live in doesn’t make it ours, or give us more rights than any visitor, we are all American tax payers and share all lakes. Like it or not, just fish and enjoy what we are blessed with, each state has folks that are payed to worry about and take care of our lakes, life is to short for me to worry about controlling a lake and who is fishing it,

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You have missed my point, I am not complaining about some out of state folks I agree once or twice a year, is completely understandable. But you have no ideal what I am talking about. I am not going to get into names or places here. This is the last I will post about this period.

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