7-8" scraped and fried whole probably one of my favorite meals
2024-25 fishing regulations
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Buzzard Breath
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Yep
What gets me is when you catch 9 1/2" crappie that are 1 1/2" thick or thicker.
gonna have to try that with some 10 inchers. never have do a crappie whole, but saw a video where they scaled , gutted, cut the head off and grid cut and battered a small crappie and blue gill and they looked great
blacks are thicker than whites usually. most of these lakes are black crappie that were stocked then got out of hand.
normandy, woods, and tims ford are heavily stocked by the hatchery. if they didnt there provably wouldbt be many. if you catch a black nose then it came from a hatchery.
normandy, woods, and tims ford are heavily stocked by the hatchery. if they didnt there provably wouldbt be many. if you catch a black nose then it came from a hatchery.
every single crappie i have caught at those lakes have been black nosed. maybe they just get a little bigger.
they are hybrids. even if a black nose is crossed with a white crappie theyll still retain the black nose gene but they can grow quicker and sometimes larger. theyll still spawn, if they are not sterile, but hybrids frye is quite smaller so predation pretty much wipes them out.
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I heard they were outlawing live scope.
Live scopes are not mentioned in the proclamation that was linked.
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I was joking.
Lets not get confused here. No changes proposed for ALL Bill Dance Signature lakes. Many of those lakes, such as Chickamauga, are major reservoirs and there will be no changes regarding crappie. Proposed changes I'm aware of were only for some of the smaller lakes (although I don't know which ones are Bill Dance lakes).
This is from the news release of the fishing reg changes that make mention of crappie passed in Sept. 2023:
The sportfish regulations include changes to TWRA fishing lakes in West Tennessee. The daily creel limit and the length limit will be removed for crappie at Lake Graham, Glenn Springs, Carroll, and Garrett lakes to improve size structure and harvest success. At Carroll and Garrett lakes, both will have no daily creel limit on largemouth bass, but only one can be over 18 inches. This is to promote harvest of smaller bass to improve size structure.
For the Cumberland Plateau Region, changes for small lakes and ponds were made for Bridgestone/Firestone WMA, Indian Boundary Lake in Monroe County, and Madisonville's Lake Kefauver. These are regarding the size and creel limits for largemouth bass, bluegill and redear sunfish, catfish, and crappie. A youth only designation at the Bridgestone Firestone ponds was removed. This will allow for more fishing opportunities for a broader group of license holders.
Generally new Fishing Guides are published/distributed sometime in February.
Thanks for the clarification!
I knew better but didn't catch myself.
yeah its only certain lakes. they removed the creel and size limits on several lakes last year as well.
you would think that they would put the effective date in the mew guides in february under whats new but they dont.
anyhoo its still March 1st effective date:
you would think that they would put the effective date in the mew guides in february under whats new but they dont.
anyhoo its still March 1st effective date:
We have to protect the, "It's on the Internet so it must be true" crowd.
Like bowriter told me one time.We have to protect the, "It's on the Internet so it must be true" crowd.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
i wonder if a man had a 48qt cooler full in february if theyd let it slide without a ticket?
Of course not.
All about the gray area with them.
Wooden Arrow
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was it trying to eat it, or... what ?
