Took Out A Few Crappie Munchers This Morning

[jaxsprat]

I'm a Crappie Fishing Guide and I probably haven't caught more than 50 crappie all year! I have probably cleaned about 4,000 crappie so far this year though that were legally caught by licensed anglers. That's about 1% of the potential reproduction of one female crappie in one spawning season.

Adequate habitat is the key to a healthy crappie population. Working with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, other fishing guides and volunteers, I have placed well over 700 Bamboo Crappie Condos in Lake Greeeson in the last three and a half years.

Nuff said?

And one Heck of a good guide too----and helps replenish crappie stock in the lake too

[GCD]

If his clients have only caught 4,000 out of the 30,000 from one female and only half a dozen make it to maturity then what happened to the others? Stripers? :D

Bull. Since the stocking of stripers instead of hybrids in GA lakes, black crappie numbers have gone down. This has been over 7 years and not a 4 year cycle that most lakes see in black crappie numbers. A lot of striper fishermen here in GA use small crappie for bait. Our crappie were stable even with a large population of flathead catfish and largemouth bass. The hybrids competed only for the shad. Juvenile crappie school together in like sizes and are easy targets for a school of large stripers that do nothing but cruise all day and night looking for food shallow and deep. I wish more guides kept more stripers. 10:1 you haven't split the gut on 10 stripers to know.

Just sayin...........from seeing.

Largemouth Bass eat more Crappie than any other fish! They both share the same areas, shallow water and structure... Stripers are an open water fish.

Largemouth Bass eat Crappie fry and Crappie eat Largemouth Bass fry.

I love it when people try to blame Stripers for the population decline of Crappie... it usually goes like this, "we used to carry Crappie out of here by the cooler fulls, now we're lucky to catch 20!... I think the Stripers ate them all!"... and if they'd only stop and think about what they said, they'd realize that the Stripers didn't eat them... the people ate them.:rolleyes:

Here's a little reading material for those that think Striped Bass eat Crappie... I'm here to educate you!

Striped Bass Predation on Bass and Crappie

[Jerry Blake]

[QUOTE=GCD;1251363]I'm here to educate you!QUOTE]

And we're so lucky to have you!

How does the old saying go, "Those that can, do - those that can't, teach"?

[slimeyslab]

[QUOTE=Jerry Blake;1251370]

I'm here to educate you!QUOTE]

And we're so lucky to have you!

How does the old saying go, "Those that can, do - those that can't, teach"?

What a compliment to all the hard working teacher's out there Jerry. Geesh!

[slimeyslab]

[QUOTE=slimeyslab;1251376]

What a compliment to all the hard working teacher's out there Jerry. Geesh!

GOTCHA!!!:p

[GCD]

[QUOTE=Jerry Blake;1251370]

I'm here to educate you!QUOTE]

And we're so lucky to have you!

How does the old saying go, "Those that can, do - those that can't, teach"?

[QUOTE=slimeyslab;1251376]

What a compliment to all the hard working teacher's out there Jerry. Geesh!

I knew I'd get some bites on that doughball!:D:D:D

[Jerry Blake]

[QUOTE=slimeyslab;1251376]

What a compliment to all the hard working teacher's out there Jerry. Geesh!

That wasn't directed at ANY of "the hard working teachers out there".

[Jerry Blake]

I wish I could hang around and bounce some more dough balls around with y'all but I gotta hit the hay. There will be a bunch of big ole crappie looking for a boat ride in the morning and I've got to go figure out where they are.

[slimeyslab]

[QUOTE=Jerry Blake;1251401]

That wasn't directed at ANY of "the hard working teachers out there".

Looked pretty staight forward to me, but what do I know.

[BigKyd]

[QUOTE=Jerry Blake;1251370]

I'm here to educate you!QUOTE]

And we're so lucky to have you!

How does the old saying go, "Those that can, do - those that can't, teach"?

And those that can't do or teach.......manage.