Thread: Moved lakes and kept on hammering .

To quote the OP “If I just complained no one would listen” I can believe that. What better way to complain than go on an open forum and criticize the AGAF especially when a credible employee is member of the forum? Now the member is gone with lots of information that helped many members and visitors here. Although I can’t remember him saying what jig pole and color jig he uses.
I believe the AGAF has done a good job so far. They have ask for opinions from fishermen, had open discussions on fishing, and have a good idea on the number and size of the crappie in the lakes you fish. We need to remember Mother Nature has more effect on crappie than fishermen.
I understand you may be the best fisherman in the state and could make a lot of money fishing crappie tournaments if you wanted but I don’t think you and 10 more boats will put a dent in the crappie population this fall. If you do there will be thousands of people disappointed come spawn.
Your idea on keeping more fish in the lakes is to hammer them everyday.I don’t think that is the best way.
I work for a living and only have the weekends and vacation time to fish. Why not put a limit on the days we can fish ? Say 3 days a week and 2 days a week in the spawn?

I fish with livescope and really enjoy it. I'm constantly either talking to the fish or humming the Jaws theme. I really understand how much fun it is. At the end of the day I will have kept a dozen or less. A whole lot get to go back to be caught by me or someone else another day. This is the part that is confusing me, if I keep a limit of over 10" fish using livescope every day that is bad but if I give a limit away every day that is good? Aren't the same amount of fish dead either way?

This is the way I see it. A black female Crappie can lay from 10,000-190,000 eggs. Lets say that there was a poor season...drought, poor water quality, harsh shad die-off...and she lays 30,000 eggs. This is now our base line. Now pretend that 60% of the eggs hatch. There is now 18,000 tiny baby crappie swimming around. Lets say that 50% of tose make it to adult size. We are down to 9,000 crappie.

9,000 crappie produced from 1 crappie per season. Whats your guess on how many female black crappie are in Lake Nimrod? No idea....1 million? If each of those produce 9,000 others, for a total of 9,000,000,000. I would say it would take a while for 100 people to take 1 limit per day for a total of 912,500 fish, to deplete the population. (25 limit in texas)

Keep in mind, I never counted male black crappie before the breed...nor did I count white crappie in any of this math.


Is this anywhere near right?

Originally Posted by Luke 5:9

This is the way I see it. A black female Crappie can lay from 10,000-190,000 eggs. Lets say that there was a poor season...drought, poor water quality, harsh shad die-off...and she lays 30,000 eggs. This is now our base line. Now pretend that 60% of the eggs hatch. There is now 18,000 tiny baby crappie swimming around. Lets say that 50% of tose make it to adult size. We are down to 9,000 crappie.

9,000 crappie produced from 1 crappie per season. Whats your guess on how many female black crappie are in Lake Nimrod? No idea....1 million? If each of those produce 9,000 others, for a total of 9,000,000,000. I would say it would take a while for 100 people to take 1 limit per day for a total of 912,500 fish, to deplete the population. (25 limit in texas)

Keep in mind, I never counted male black crappie before the breed...nor did I count white crappie in any of this math.


Is this anywhere near right?

This has been my position for a number of years. This is taken into consideration, I'm sure, by the professional biologists when then make their samplings. They probably consider individual lakes, fertility of the lakes and a host of other things. Mother nature has a pretty good handle on all things in nature. As far as a "slump" that the OP is afraid of, all lakes, ponds and rivers experience cycles. For instance Sardis lake in Mississippi had a few bad years. Now it is on the upswing. Our biologists spend long years studying to become biologist. How about we let our biologist make the decisions on how to manage our fisheries to be in harmony with nature.

Naw...man. You can't leave it to professionals to manage our lakes. I would rather let local guides run them............sarcasm button somewhere.

Need to add something to my last post. I was told by a northern biologist that the recruitment of rate for crappie spawn is 10 to 15%. May be higher here in the south. 10 to 15% still means a very large number..

Originally Posted by Luke 5:9

This is the way I see it. A black female Crappie can lay from 10,000-190,000 eggs. Lets say that there was a poor season...drought, poor water quality, harsh shad die-off...and she lays 30,000 eggs. This is now our base line. Now pretend that 60% of the eggs hatch. There is now 18,000 tiny baby crappie swimming around. Lets say that 50% of tose make it to adult size. We are down to 9,000 crappie.

9,000 crappie produced from 1 crappie per season. Whats your guess on how many female black crappie are in Lake Nimrod? No idea....1 million? If each of those produce 9,000 others, for a total of 9,000,000,000. I would say it would take a while for 100 people to take 1 limit per day for a total of 912,500 fish, to deplete the population. (25 limit in texas)

Keep in mind, I never counted male black crappie before the breed...nor did I count white crappie in any of this math.


Is this anywhere near right?

Well this is a head banger, a real salt in the wound, twist the knife sorta post.
Makes every day that was less than stellar much more frustrating

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Originally Posted by jigflinger

Need to add something to my last post. I was told by a northern biologist that the recruitment of rate for crappie spawn is 10 to 15%. May be higher here in the south. 10 to 15% still means a very large number..

That number is big enough for me to not worry about guides and Livesope users depleting the population.

Can some one name a lake that has been "fished out"?

Fish on....every day.