Thread: Cutting the limit yet again.

Originally Posted by MO' MONEY

I went fishing at enid one time and didn't catch a fish.... Guess that means there aren't any fish in the dang lake...

Same thing happened to me! Now I understand why (could not have been my fishing know-how). There are NO FISH in Enid!

Who won?

Ok we have had a little discussion and some good laughs, but it's all good.

But till we find out what percentage of fish the fishermen are taking out of the lake the discussion is a mute point, right?

Just say the fishermen take 15% of the legal fish out of the lake and 15% stay in the lake, some die off and 50% go out of the outlet channel at Enid, if this is the case then the fishermen, how many poles they use is irreverent wouldn't you say?

No if the fishermen are taking 30% and the rest of the numbers are the same then maybe limits need to be changed?

But yet again it goes back to these lakes are for flood control, the fishing is a bonus, we have all heard this, right?

I was hoping someone on here knew the estimated number that the fishermen take out of the lake each year. If I had more time I would research it.

Anyway, I will follow the rules whatever they may be, even though it gets confusing sometimes from lake to lake. But it's all good, any day I'm above ground and get to fish and not have to work is a good day.

Yall gentlemen carry on, and Wannabe as well.

Originally Posted by Dodgeman

I was told yesterday there was biologist going around to every boat on the big three and asking questions about how many fish they had, how many times they have been fishing, how long they fished ect. What the man told me was they were talking about cutting limits, and that could have been for Enid and Grenada.

The above could be just rumor, I hope it is.

1. I have also heard that on Enid, that 50 % of the crappie go out the outlet channel when they are letting water go. Is this true?

2. I would also like to know what is the percentage of crappie are caught by fishermen each year?

3. And last, I was told the fishing each year depends on the spawn 5 years ago cause it took about 5 years for a spawn fish to reach 12 inches. So if that is true and say spawning season wasn't great at Enid, then in 2009 was there a bad spawn, weather, water level fluctuations?

I don't get on here much, but these are some questions I would like answered, if there is a biologist on here I would like to hear from them and from the guys that are there each day and I'm sure we have some that keep records from year to year.

Thanks

Dont know who told you that it took 5 years for crappie in MS to reach 12 inches but here is wording from a 2010 article directly from the source. When u work with incorrect data sure makes things hard.

Ok so the spawn 3 years ago would be a direct relation on the number of keeper fish this year. Thanks for clearing that up.

But regardless of how long it takes, we still don't know the percentage of the fish the fishermen take out of the lake each year.

No but this does explain all of the 11 7/8 fish in the spring of 2012. By the fall the keepers were starting to show up and 2013 was a phenomenal year. I have not been on Enid yet this year but from most reports I received it was a pretty good spring. My question would be where is this concern last year when the fishing was great? Seems folks only have these concerns when the fishing is not to their liking.

Originally Posted by Handicrappie

I have not been on Enid yet this year but from most reports I received it was a pretty good spring.

I just started fishing this spring, and every crappie I caught at Enid was a keeper.

Originally Posted by Handicrappie

No but this does explain all of the 11 7/8 fish in the spring of 2012. By the fall the keepers were starting to show up and 2013 was a phenomenal year. I have not been on Enid yet this year but from most reports I received it was a pretty good spring. My question would be where is this concern last year when the fishing was great? Seems folks only have these concerns when the fishing is not to their liking.

Actually the answer to your question is NO. I have wondered this for a while. There have been discussions on here about the number of fish that go out the outlet channel and discussions about pole and creel limits. Just wondering what the percentage the fishermen catch of the harvest-able fish.

I my opinion you can pretty well judge the spring spawns on the numbers of almost legal fish you catch the summer before. In the spring of 2012 we caught tons and tons for 11 1/2 to 11 3/4 fish, well as you said last spring (spring of 2013) everyone caught fish, and last summer we caught lots and lots of keepers pulling cranks, but we didn't catch that many throw backs. So I told my buddies, that I didn't expect this spring (2014) to be that good cause of what we seen pulling, and from everyone I seen and talked to on the lake the spawn wasn't good for them.

With that said we will see how the pulling is this summer and we can see if my analogy holds true.