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Silver lake is no example. It's stunk for decent fish for more years than I can count.How come Oneida has steadily increased in both quality and quantity ( for those who know the water) while its bombarded year after year by all those greedy limit takers?Your correlation makes no sense .Rg
Show me where you found this to be truth? go back to last years Silver Lake R&C board on how many guys boasted and bragged how many slayings of limits of bluegills were posted.....Go on this years and read how many posts of " really slow today".....Then come back and lets talk about truth.
I got a couple veggie burgers on the grill and some tofu ..... you like soy milk in your coffee ?? I even got some james taylor on and a good jane fonda flick
no I just disagree with you , I rather actually talk fishing then this stupid crap ..... and I really did have veggie burgers on the grill tonight is there a limit on soy beans too??
25 on gills is more than generous, lets not all be gluttons.
You all wanna chime in with your bull crap comments and snide remarks to try and belittle me. At least i can voice exactly what i want to say right wrong or indifferent. Well I cant believe that im reading that putting no limits on fish makes a lake healthier and more sustainable. Then why did Lake Erie stop commercial fishing for perch? wheres all the blue pike? Putting 25 fish limit on bluegills hurt tourism on Saratoga? LMAO You want me to believe this?
If I'm not mistake-n it use to be 15 about 25 years ago for bluegills , but Jeff there are some places that would become healthier if limits were lifted but not all and again this is JMO from years of watching but I'm not a biologist
it's a 15 fish limit on bluegills on saratoga .... thank God your here jeff all these years I assumed the biologist working for the state knew what there talking about .... blue pike hmmmmm if there was a limit on dinosaurs I guess they would be around too ......hate to tell you this basic biology extinction is the natural end to ALL Zoological species......
Yeah, the 5 % of Silver lake that gets ice fished is hot one year and not so much the next....the locals are having no trouble catching fish but all the guys who want to only fish the south end are struggling...the fish move there are so many weed beds in that lake why would only the south end hold all the gills? only the 2 ends of the lake get fished, you can go any day of the week and count less then 10 guys fishing the middle of the lake, but 200 on each end. But this lake is fished out!
If some people could have it there way fishing would only be allowed on the weekends. From sun up to sun down. The limits are established at this point and it's working out alright for most guys. The ones that complain about high limits want it lowered so they could stand a chance at actually hitting it. They also chime In about how many fish a person actually needs to catch a season. They complain you catch too many and don't need them. Last season I packed away over 140 lbs of boneless fillets, pike, perch, crappie, eyes and gills. Those that can consistently catch fish think a feat like that is awesome. The ones that can't catch complain I'm the reason for their lack of success. I will agree that a small body of water that gets advertised on the internet will possiblyShow decline in quality fish. Especially if all those bragging about there catch post over and over about howGreat of a spot there on. Will it kill the population, I don't think so. But it will take a few low pressure years to get the consistent quality back.
bird I think it's a mix of jealousy and stupidity...... nothing you say can change it and truth I don't care ..... when they need perch fillets i'll sell em some ...........anyone else I'd give them too
I just went and read jeffros old post ...I suggest everyone does that ...from what I seen he has never added a positive comment to any fishing discussion only fighting with people ..... that's really sad jeff because 99.99 % of the guys on this site are great guys and are fun to meet and fish with , before you worry about how many sunfish I fillet you really should work on this negativity issue you have
Silver isnt fished out, but definitely 10,000 8" bluegills lighter