Originally Posted by
jackb
I do have an answer; the fish are stunted. I moved here in 1983 and have fished Smithville a ton. For years all we heard was the 8 or 8 1/2 in crappie were a "Great year class" I think that's crap. The lake has been giving up tons of crappie which, by ratio, have been small, thin, scrawny fish. Yet they continue to charge tremendous fees to launch/park. Where does the money go??? Certainly not to better the fishery. Also don't want to hear about the thousands of dollars WASTED on the "habitat program". What else are the biologists going to say other than "We're seeing shad everywhere" and "should be a good year for crappie"? I SHOULD win powerball; doesn't mean I'm gonna. If they told the TRUTH about this sewer, the parking lots would be empty and their fees would dry up. And we can't have that now, can we?