Thread: 9 inch Minimun for Crappie on Dogwood

People are slobs. Who really needs 1000 filets? Take what you reasonably can use. Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.

That is one lake I have always wanted to fish, just not been able to talk myself into the 3 hour drive. With those new regulations in place I might need to put Dogwood on my bucket list. With you on that duckman, I don't know what to think about some people.

Originally Posted by Whaler;2846527 Bluegill were hauled off the ice [B

by the bucket full last winter[/B] plus Dogwood has become the go to place to stock freezers. Had one fisherman tell me he hadan a thousand filets on this trip d
he was only one of many who had freezers beside their campers..

This pretty well sums up the reason of no quality size fish. Our lakes here in Indiana cant handle this kind of pressure. If you want some fish for the table thats fine, go get 10 or 12 and call it a day. But this gotta fill the freezer thinking is killing our lakes and people dont realize what they are doing or just dont care. This is another reason not to post locations on a lake because you dont know how many snipers are out there looking for good areas to fish. You dont know how many boats you will be sending into an area.
A thousand filets this trip, I think that falls into poaching. Another major problem with our waters.
I will probably upset a few with this, but I have done it before. Upsetting was not the intent

I hope they do put the limits on Glendale. I fish there a lot and have also seen the decline in size. I would love to see Glendale get back to what it once was but have some serious doubts about that.

Limit the number of 10+ fish that can be taken, like Rend Lake a number of years ago, limit of 25 but no more than 10 that are that length or bigger.

It really does the trick

Pepper

I know of dozens of serious bluegill/redear men that quit going down there after 20+ years of going. We noticed back in 09' that the size structure was in full decline. Our group quit going because of this, it's frustrating.

I now go to Kentucky Lake and Barkley Lake....sure wish I would've dropped Dogwood years ago.

shoot i have a 10" self imposed min. anyways. lol

when i gill fish, its mostly for fillets. i have a few fish frys a year. i also have a few older couples that i keep supplied. so the almost 3000 estimated fillets i took last year didnt go to waste. i probably filleted 600+ crappie and 100 baby river bass too that didnt go to waste. why is it that people think fish go to waste if a guy catches a bunch?

Same thing is happening to a lake up north. This past summer three guys fished it everyday spider rigging and took their limit or a few less everyday of crappie. This went on from May till Sept. The lake is only approx. 80 acres. It doesn't take a genus to figure out what is going to happen next year to the size and amount of the crappie.