Thread: Welcome Nebraska Crappie Fishermen

Originally Posted by Manhattan

Welcome Cornhuskers!!! I live on a pretty good crappie lake in SC but grew up in Saunders County. Graduated from high school at Uni high in Lincoln .Used to fish Harlan and McConnaguy as well as one lake near Lincoln.Sorry to hear about the white perch...blessed things are prolific here in SC as well.I will be glad to hear about fishing out there and I hope BIG RED has a better season..

Thanks for the welcome to the State boards. The thing is that the State Game people are the ones that introduced them to the State and now they have ruined a lot of private lakes as well. Several Private Lake Assoc. are suing the State trying to get the State to Drain and re-stock their Lakes.
As far as Big Red they should do Ok this year. They got Pelini as Head Coach and Osborn back at AD so we should be able to walk on water this year. According to my son-in law!

Originally Posted by Iamfishing

Hello and welcome NE,
you guys may not have a lot of crappie about but you have what SC does not have. Pheasants and Ducks. I have been coming to NE for 9 years hunting these birds and enjoy it. We stay in Verdigre each fall. We see a lot of boats fishing in the Missouri near Santee. Don't know if they are catching crappie or not.

The white perch are a problem in SC too. They are destroying the crappie population on two past excellent crappie lakes. Lake Wylie and Lake Wateree. You can still catch a decent mess night stalking or night fishing but its not like it use to be.

Thanks for the welcome to the State Board:
The Pheasant and Ducks are making a come back the last few years. We had a hard freeze and Ice Storm several years ago and killed off a large population of Pheasants and Quail. Then the farmers started farming the road ditches and did away with a lot of their habitat. Finally the State stopped the farming of the road ditches and now they are re-populating pretty fast. Turkeys are very plentiful and now they are even coming into the suburbs and are getting pretty brave. We have had a hen Turkey roost in our neighbors tree for the past few years but hasn't come around for the last couple of years. She may have made someone's Thankgiving dinner. The White perch are more of a nusiance to the fisherman because they really attack a bait. It is hard to catch anything else as long as they are around. If you catch them you can't put them back in the lake or will get ticketed if you are caught releasing one back in the lake alive. They say to kill it first and then throw it back in the lake.
I grew up around Ralph Kohler from Tekamah. He owned the wielding shop there and that is where he started the inground duck blind. He guided around Tekamah on the Missouri River for a long time. His inground duck blinds are the Cadillac of all duck blinds. He was featured on all the outdoor hunting shows.