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mo, i need to send you some of the hate-mail i get. Set em all straight.Dr. JM
If that Lake in question is Fished out or getting Fished out.....How come there are alotta of posts stating that many under the size limit were caught and released?? How come the past years I have been fishing this Lake this happens every year where HUGE fish are caught thru the Ice year after year? If this Lake is fished out How come there are many Bass touneys their every year?? Just askin......
Hope they don't start any Crappie tourney in the Lakes here..... Same as them..many HUGE slabs caught year after year after year....
Are those them Hybrids I hear about or are they Pure Breds??.....
Mo, catchs millions!!!!!!!!
I've read a few posts from those who are concerned with amount of fish being taken out of a lake. I don't think we have any idea what the creel is. Out of the 50 guys that were on Muddy Creek this weekend, only a dozen post. And out of that dozen, most were very successful. I rarely see someone release a fish. There was a report that a spot fished last week in Muddy Creek produced 9 bass over 20 inches. It would appear that a lot more fish are being taken from the lake than you would think were in the lake. Last year after ice out, they had a soft water tournament. It produced numerous limits of bass, up to 7 lbs. If we were fishing the lake out, this would not be possible. Just my thoughts! Mo
I'm with you Mo... if you are catching fish out of a lake then the lake you are fishing is not fished out.Muddy Creek... numerous limits of bass up to 7 lbs... I'm in! In fact, it is without question one of the best bass lake in all of NE USA. I can think of only a handful of lakes that can make this claim (Champlain, Erie, Oneida)... I wonder why it's such a well kept secret?Lesson learned: kill as many bass as you can... it is the best way to grow more and bigger bass. Makes sense. I'm in... I'm gonna start throwing everything on the ice starting next weekend, because I can't think of any lake I have fished in PA that matches that description.
Ever fished this private lake called Monroe I caught more big bass and picks in there this summer than I have in 3-4 years of fishing it. Ever since JM and his crew of misfits started killing everything we got to see what the fishing was like when you didn't have schools of perch hitting everything you threw
Just like deer hunting. If you kill every doe you see, you'll end up with more bucks. Yup, makes perfect sense ::)to you
That makes absolutely no sense at all ski hunter… because surely you could be catching more and bigger bass right up the road at Promised Land which sees 100 times the pressure that Lake Monroe does? Why waste your time at a private lake that doesn’t receive the kind of mass harvest required to grow large numbers of big bass? Imagine if there were no size or creel limits set by the PFBC… we would be taking stringers of 10-pounders out of Minsi Lake! That would be awesome… I’m writing a letter to Dave Arnold.
The panfish enhancement regs are off in my book. Don't make sense to me to pull the big fish out and leave the small fish in. You want to make a "trophy fishery" for gills say every gill over 8.5" or so goes back, under that the daily limit applies.
I caught plenty of quality panfish in every special regs. lake I fished in the last few years. Lots of gills 7-9 inches.20 gills over 7 iches is plenty for me. I wouldn't even keep and try to fillet a sunfish less than 7 inches. I'm happy to catch gills at 7-9 inches, but have read threads where guys are catching gills 11-12 inches regularly. Read somewhere a lake down south produced not one, but two gills over 5 lbs.! I guess some lakes are just not cut out for it.
Most of the southern lakes will produce larger fish due to the fact they don't get the cold weather we do. Warmer weather year round means the fish feed heavier throughout the year and not just over the warmer months. I'm a bit skeptical of 5# gills. Most likely they were hybrids which are more likely to grow bigger.
I actually read the 5lb. gill thing in In-fishermen magazine 15 years ago.