Thread: proposed changes for Jordan lake Crappie

Harris has more than an abundance of shad to support a larger fish population. It's nothing to go there and see shad 20 feet thick or more for several feet in length. I've left Harris before at night and seen many boats come off there with coolers full of crappie. Guy came off with 4 large coolers packed. He was happy to show me and brag about it. I just walked away before I said something I shouldn't. Gotta fillet a lot 6 to 8 inch fish to be worth eating. Fillet a couple of 10 or 12 inch fish and you have a meal real quick.
I think they should allow people to keep 5 or 6 fish under 10" at Jordan. I've seen numerous people, including myself, catch crappie in 30 feet of water and throw them back just watch them float away because they have the bends from coming up from so deep. I do the trick of throwing them like a dart into the water and that works probably 70% of the time. Tough watching them float away and be wasted.

One trick I've found for the floaters is to squeeze their gills together until their mouth closes before throwing them back. Whatever it does to them it works.
Mike

Take a kid outdoors!

Randleman lake closes for the winter and has hours that gives the fish an opportunity to grow and populate.

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Here is the comment I left:

To whom this concerns,

I have been an avid Fisherman all my life. Since moving to North Carolina in 2002 I have been an Avid Crappie Fisherman on the Triangle Area Lakes. Namely Falls Lake, The above mentioned Jordan Lake and Harris Lake.

I believe that the proposal to reduce the minimum size limit on Jordan lake from 10 to 8" is the wrong choice. I see Jordan Lake as a Premier Crappie lake for the state of North Carolina and for that matter on the east coast. In order to promote this, I believe the minimum size limit should actually be increased from 10" to 12". As I am sure your catch data will show, there is ample opportunity to catch 12 " Crappie and a 20 fish limit of this size is attainable.

Best regards.

Vernon AuClair

I find the justification provided in the text very odd:

Justification: Anglers have expressed interest in aligning the size limit for crappie

at Jordan Reservoir with other fishing waters across the state.

Question 1: What anglers? I am confident that C.com contains a representative cross section of Jordan Lake's crappie fishermen and that cross section has weighed in here...did we not? The strong majority of us are against this change. So where in the Jordan Lake crappie fishing population was there an organized, vocal demand to align the limit with other lakes?
Question 2: What and when was the original justification to make an exception to increase min. size from 8" to 10" made on Jordan? And did the results of this 10" exception align with the justification?
Question 3: (As Jordan Limit is asking) How does this re-alignment and justification coincide with and support the results of tax funded creel research? I've never heard of a natural resource management rule change with a justification that excluded any language promising some benefit or protection to that natural resource or the surrounding environment/ecosystem.

Jeremy

I agree with that an a 20 fish limit

Could it be that DNR wants to make it easier on themselves by having a state wide 8" size, 20 fish limit same as SC has. With each body of water having it's own different rules, it's harder to enforce any law and the understanding of such laws by general public makes it harder to argue in court. Years ago fishing / hunting regulations were small and simple, now they require 2 lawyers to figure out which boundary a person is allowed to stand in and fish. I may be wrong but SC passed this upon us to simplify the regulations. There is no argument in the courts when caught with over the limit or size of fish! General public doesn't have to be a fisherman or hunter, phone survey's here prove that!. Same as baiting deer in SC, lower state could and did when upper state couldn't and were fined when caught. People said they were baiting for hogs not deer. So the law is now state wide baiting. The DNR couldn't enforce the law on baiting when the regulation said hog hunting allowed with baiting So, it may be a good thing for Joe Blow and bad thing for you in having tournament size fish to win money with. General Public is and may be the culprit here in your changes!

I would like to see the size limit at Jordan stay the same. "If it ain't broke don't fix it"!