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On a lake with no size limit I myself do not keep anything under 10 unless they are gut hooked and probably not going to live. But do they put no size limits on a lake that needs to be thinned out? The lake I have been fishing on has no size limit and is packed full of small fish. So do you keep the small ones or throw them back?
There are good arguments for both options. I make my decision on the history of the body of water. Then again some waters have a habit of producing large fish and others will only produce smaller fish. Whether this is because of environmental issues or a matter of too many fish is what determines it. If a fishery has a history of producing small fish, then I will keep small fish.:twocents
This lake is about 310 acres and it does have some nice fish in it, today I had one that was 15 inches but its about 50 dinks to one decent fish
In pond that small, I would keep the small ones and let the big ones go. Just the opposite on large waters.
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Grandpa always said never throw a crappie back in a pond. The overpopulate so quick that it stunts them. Seeing it play out in many of the ponds we fish. Matter of fact the landowner better not see you toss a fish back. In the last few years we have slowly watched the size of the fish decrease.
It is your call , here my home lake it takes 100 to cull out 20 over 10'' lots of days. If your fish hungry take em home. I don't need em and perfer to keep only 10'' and bigger Crappie.
I keep 10" or bigger, not much there below 10"
I like 12" for the amount of meat I get