Thread: New Crappie Length and Creel Limit for Pymatuning

I wish more lakes would go to a lower crappie limit. Fishermen and there toys keep getting better. Most of these lakes just can't handle the pressure.

I never keep anything under 10 inches, and have never even kept 20 at a time. 4 or 5, on up to 10 is good enough for me.

I'm with you. I kept 4 one day this week for dinner. The next time out I kept 6 for dinner 1 or 2 nights next week.

I just hope the restrictions don't back fire like they did in central Ohio. Clearfork reservoir has a 9"/30 limit. You'll catch 100 fish but you're lucky if you can keep 10. All 8.5" fish.

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Originally Posted by Crappy Attitude

I just hope the restrictions don't back fire like they did in central Ohio. Clearfork reservoir has a 9"/30 limit. You'll catch 100 fish but you're lucky if you can keep 10. All 8.5" fish.

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I agree with this clearfork has alot of 8-8.5" fish

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Originally Posted by Crappy Attitude

I just hope the restrictions don't back fire like they did in central Ohio. Clearfork reservoir has a 9"/30 limit. You'll catch 100 fish but you're lucky if you can keep 10. All 8.5" fish.

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That's what happens when everybody is only allowed to keep the bigger fish. That's all that's left. The predators in the lake can't eat enough small fish to keep their population in control so they begin to multiply quickly and stunt. Some lakes can handle this and others can't. A smaller creel limit is better than a size limit on some of our area lakes. Shenango has a fifty fish, no size restriction and is doing very well.

Pymy is an extremely large lake (for Ohio) with a horsepower limit to boot. I can't believe pressure is the problem there. That said, I don't fish it (never have, even when I lived in the area) and really don't have any insight into the problems there.

Originally Posted by chaunc

That's what happens when everybody is only allowed to keep the bigger fish. That's all that's left. The predators in the lake can't eat enough small fish to keep their population in control so they begin to multiply quickly and stunt. Some lakes can handle this and others can't. A smaller creel limit is better than a size limit on some of our area lakes. Shenango has a fifty fish, no size restriction and is doing very well.

We have another lake here that gets tremendous pressure in the fall. No size or creel limit and it does well. Plenty of fish to be caught. We police ourselves and give our buddies grief for keeping the small ones but it seems to maintain and replenish itself.

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