MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
ill still take my trips up north for true trophy gills and crappie. but some nice eats ya got there for sure!
For some reason my boss aka wife wouldn't let me blow 20k on what I'd want to get around everywhere.Hard to compete 5 hours on foot although by the looks of it probably could of caught a few channel slumming and placed pretty high must oh been some brutal conditions there! If I were single be fun though for sure to go to all the lakes.
Almost 10"ers but not quite. Nice fish for sure but keep trying.
What do you consider trophy crappie?JOE!!! You been going to Michigan again and didn't invite me??!! I mean Indiana!!!! OoopsDo these qualify?
If you weighed 83's gills to 81's it would be no contest, and to think Indiana stacks up to Michigan gills is crazy. I know plenty of good sticks that can fill buckets at will that are in favor of the limit, so not being able to catch fish is not the problem. I don't think it needs to be aggregate with crappie, but 25 each. The last couple ice seasons where short and for some crazy reason, folks are catching more harvestable fish this year. It's not a coincidence IMO.
Wawasee Toads.
yeap, those qualify. but i did notice its only one fish at a time. im talking numbers along with size like most of us are looking for. u cant say that fish without limits dont get hampered any. yes here in indiana you can go find these trophy fish, but look how far off the 'beaten path' ur having to go. u dont have to search near as much for lakes of quanity and quality in states with limits as you do here
Lol good debate regardless and a recap of some awesome fish but there's never going to be a concrete system that's going to be the same for every lake in every state that I think we can all agree on and get back to fishing!
So you want limits?
redears... we are talking true bluegills here. not reds or hybrids. still taste good, sure!
limits of the 14-16" caliper. thats the point of the debate. not 1/4 of ur limit being trophy fish, 75% or better. still good eats, all the pics i need to go thaw out some fish!!
Red ear/hybrid ear gill/ blue gill/ pumpkinseed...they are all panfish. The point is there is big panfish fish right here in Indiana. Is there bigger TRUE Blugills in Minnesota or Michigan, probably.
I'm going to disagree. If there wasn't a limit at the slough people would definitely have to work harder at getting a limit because there would be less fish. I have seen 10"ers from there this year but less than in the past because there are more people out there keeping fish of any size till they get 25. Personally, I'd like to see a 15 fish limit at the slough for about 2 or 3 years to let them toads grow. Everyone has a voice and there has been some great opinions posted thus far but it seems to me we see a post like this started every year.
Ive only been to the slough twice and was amazed at the crowds on the lake both times we went, four of us went and we caught our limit on really nice gills, so in my opinion a 25 limit wont hurt at all with the fishing pressure the slough gets and still produces really nice gills but like I said Ive only been there twice to far for me but the quality of fish we caught I was impressed with the pressure that lake gets and still produce very good fish is amazing to me. Most that are apposed to the 25 limit in my humble opinion are the people that take buckets of fish to fill a freezer in the winter to get thru the year. Like others I would rather see a law to prohibit bed fishing that in my again humble opinion hurt lakes more than the bucket fisherpeople, I see more and more people fishing beds in the last few years and have noticed a lack of keepable fish in the winter on a couple of lakes I fish in the winter.
I agree on some lakes reservoirs or whatever the slough is I have no idea never drive south to fish as there's no reason to. However lakes with barely any pressure will not make any difference what so ever and will probably become over populated due to the low harvest. James chain for instance now that docksiders is shut off that harvest is gone. Lake has slab crappie and gills. Take Jimmerson lake on the same chain non existent fishing pressure what so ever no places to park for ice fishing public ramp in a terrible location for it you can't walk out to the main lame from it as most the time the current through the narrows keeps the ice open. The size of the gills in Jimmerson are DECREASING in size sandbars loaded with beds every year thousands upon thousands of beds of great 5 to 6 inch slabs.... there's still a few 8s and maybe a 9 here and there but almost non existant. I've been fishing that lake for 43 years what once used to be a great fishing lake with huge gills and crappie is now a dink factory due to lack of fishing. Weekend boat traffic keeps summer fishermen away they don't like the waves like I do or the sport of casting for ski ropes. Used to be 20 to 30 boats when I was a kid fishing the lake everyone pounding fish catching loads of toads. Now on a busy day during spawning season I see maybe 3 to 5 tops. Every fish doesn't come in at the same time and I also find beds into July in ten foot flats when most people think the bedding was over at the end of may they quit fishing so at that point I'm the only boat fishing other than the green carp tourney guys. 25 limit will destroy lakes like that period I don't need to be a biologist to tell that the lack of harvest is causing stunting. When I see adult 5 to 6 inch fish colonies bedding it's just like a farm pond that doesn't get fished. To implement a 25 limit will help some lakes hurt others PERIOD end of story. Putting limits on certain areas like the Slough will help. Why will it help? Because it's heavily fished it must have awesome parking and a great place to meet people shoot the breeze and have fun fishing perfect example of where limits DO help. Just don't lump it all into the same package or there's going to be more lakes like Jimmerson that will suffer greatly it doesn't take a biologist doing fish scale studies that has anything on my study of 43 years fishing the sane lake and seeing first hand what's happening due to the lack of fish harvest becomes a giant farm pond dink fest.
Fishslayer81 and Radidgupy.........Ther e is no doubt about it you guys can catch some fish. On your 2nd and 3rd pictures, would like to see a ruler on those gills on the right side of pictures. My guess would be 6 inch gills but don't get mad, it is just my guess. Do you guys fish together and fish the same lakes all the time or do you move from lake to lake? Also what is the acreage of these lakes you are fishing? How many other people are fishing these lakes? I know for a fact that some of my best lakes that weren't the biggest in size that put out 9 - 10 inch gills regularly got fished out after about 3 years once the word got out. If you go to those same lakes today you can hardly catch a gill much over 7 1/2. So if you are fishing a small lake don't be surprised if in a few years those lakes aren't producing quality gills/redears/crappies like they are now. I fish Michigan lakes 95% of the time. Twenty five gills is more than I want to clean anyway. When I fish Indiana lakes, if I get into gills pretty good I still count and stop at 25 anyway. That is just me. Have a great rest of hard ice and keep catching all you want, you are not breaking any laws.