Thread: How was Grenada this week-end?

14lbs won the tournament but these crappie tournaments only hurt our lakes

Originally Posted by bulldog

14lbs won the tournament but these crappie tournaments only hurt our lakes

Sorry to disagree. Tourney fisherman only weigh in 7 fish and then have to release them. So you probaly took more fish out of the lake this weekend than the top 10 teams.

I checked south Graysport late today. One boat had 18, but the other I checked didn't have much. Pretty windy. Said the ramp and parking was very crowded over the week-end. Only saw 3-4 trucks at the ramp today.

Checked Young's, too. One boat had 20, the other three not much. Only 4-5 at the ramp this afternoon late.

I don't know that tourney fishing actually hurts, but the biologist seem to think the trollers hurt the fish population at Enid. They have a lot of trollers. Grenada has very few. I think they keep the numbers thinned out, and many think that's why Enid isn't known for a lot of really big fish.

I will say this. If I knew nothing about crappie fishing and wanted to learn, I would join a club, learn to troll, fish the tournaments, and learn from the pros. I'd do this at least a year. I think it would be a great learning tool. Until then, I'm just fishing in a simple john boat, single line, and having fun with it.

Sorry I don't have a better report. If I were to fish tomorrow, it would be at Young's in the river. The water is about perfect there now. I took a foursome from Iowa over and showed them, and will get another report late tomorrow. Lots of TN, Illinois, MO, and Iowa folk here now.

Don

Not alot of trollers at Grenada?????? I'd hate to see Enid if it were worse that this weekend was!!!!

Well, you know what I mean. As a general rule there aren't a lot of trollers on Grenada. Maybe the tourney guys, but as a general rule you don't see a lot of it.

Don

anyone who trolls for crappie is a woman.. if you cant take a jig and catch a little ol crappie in a brush top they should go home and quit raping our lakes catch em right i cant stand to see people with 16 poles out there boat catchin all they can and we need to stick together and fight off the trollers and the crappie tournaments

man there are trollers everywhere you look

No need to beat around the bush, tell us how you really feel about trolling. :D

I still say there are relatively few trollers on Grenada, especially as compared to Enid and Sardis. It just hasn't caught on at Grenada for some reason, and for the best I assume. I do know some of the park people and biologists studying fish polulations, etc. at Enid feel the trollers keep the numbers down and therefore the lake doesn't produce the numbers of large crappie as Grenada does.

So far, I personally don't think the tourneys hurt a lake, considering how few fish they keep. But, with "meat" trollers who are out there every day catching nice coolers of fish, and just more and more and more than they could ever eat. One's thing's for sure, my presence hasn't hurt the populations this year!

I've tried trolling some and was just never much good at it, so I rarely troll anymore. I've never even caught a half limit that way, so I stick mainly to single line jigging, with maybe some deep water trolling in late summer for a change and the fun of it.

Just my .02 worth.

Don