Thread: What is the opinion of shocking Bass and driving over crappie beds to do it --SPAWN

Originally Posted by Crappiegirl1

Question asked and would like some knowledgable answers. Cause i dont like it!!

The reason for my comment. Today for the 3rd or 4th time i was on Lake Beauclair when the FWC came in with their boat they use for shocking bass to get updates on size, weight and growth habits and more.It stuns the all the fish in their pathway of a apx 17 foot boat with 4 or 5 of these wires hanging out the front all the way across.They drive into the weeds or reeds all the way to the shoreline if they can and then go around the entire lake in and out of the weeds or reeds writing down their information. Bass spawn is when crappie spawn is, and they say they need to do this during bass spawn. I said, but look what you are doing to the crappie and their beds--and the crappie themselves by stunning them when they are full of eggs or just hatched? If you have never been out on the waterways when this is happening, it is remarkable that they dont think they are bothering the spawn of bass or crappie? Ask the people that maintain the lakes in your area and see if they do this as well ? I dont like it just because it looks damaging to the weed beds and to the fish in my opinion. Let alone the actual beds already built.

does no one have an opinion? what would you say if you were fishing an area an this came into the area?

They did it on Harris while i was fishing the other day. They went around me. Just doing their job.

Don’t think it’s a good idea but I would hope the biologists would know what they are doing. But you never know with the FWS as they spray during spawning season. Really would like to see them stop the spraying and go to a mechanical method instead. I know it’s more trouble but I don’t like the spraying of harmful chemicals on my fish and the muck left behind from the decaying plants.

im not for the spraying during the spawn for sure and thats going on here too
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I can understand that they need their info to help improve the overall fishery. I’d need more info from a biologist standpoint to understand if it’s interrupting their spawning process. I don’t like the sounds of it but I’m uneducated.

They really did a number on Lake Yale with getting rid of the hydrilla. They had a big problem last summer. They got rid of a lot of the pads and hydrilla.Don't think I will be eating the fish out of there this year. Also I could see the bass on the beds in 6ft. of water. Water was very clear.