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Wade Jones
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Guys who love to catch crappie.
Guys who love to catch crappie.
What kind of baits do ya'll like to use for the crappies?? I like using some spoons and spinners but worms also do good for me.
I have thousands of every size minnows in my pond, and the bluegills are hardly eating any fish food. Does this seem normal? I seem to be feeding only minnows, keep thinking something has happened to my bluegill
Crappie are fun to catch and eat. You become the preditor fish & fry.
I would also suggest roteno and starting over if you didn't have nice other fish. Given those, I'd suggest you study up and become a carp fisherman. Everyone you catch comes out and stays out of the pond. They also put up a decent fight. Hopefully,…
Trolling in 10-12' over sandy bottom caught three 10" suspended Crappie yesterday.Two on #2 Blue Fox Spinner (Brass) and one on Rebel Wee R.
Guys who love to catch crappie.
Guys who love to catch crappie.
If a lot of the carp are smaller, i.e. a couple pounds or less, you might try stocking 10 or so tiger muskie, the largest ones you can find (which would probably be around 12-14"). There have been instances of state DNR's using muskie for this purpo…
I would buy a biggest deepest plastic swimming pool from Costco or somewhere and put my good fish in it as the pond drained. Then you could put them back.
We have a good population of 10 inch bluegill and some nice bass and crappie, but I want to do something before they take over completely. I would hope that I wouldn't have start over completely.
Unless you have exceptional fishing for another species currently in the pond, which I'm guessing you don't due to all of the carp, I would suggest rotenoning the pond and starting over from scratch. Common carp will quickly overrun a pond, at which…
I have a 5 acre pond, should I be worried about common carp effecting the fishery? I have seen carp of all sizes so it seems that they are reproducing successfully. What can they do to a pond and what is the most effective way of getting rid of them…
Guys who love to catch crappie.
As a very broad, general rule, white crappie are more piscivorous (fish eating), and black crappie are more planktivorous (plankton eating). Evidently there are some subtle differences in gill raker anatomy that make white crappie less efficient whe…
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- Largest bluegill ever caught?
- 12 inches
- Favorite place to catch bluegill?
- My pond
- Do you have a pond? If so, describe it.
- 5 acres, 25 feet deep
Has largemouth bass, bluegill, black crappie, channel cat, and bullhead
- What state are you from? This can help us get together for fishing trips!
- Illinois
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 1:43pm on February 07, 2010, Zack Thomasson gave Wade Jones a gift…
- At 4:56pm on February 5, 2010,
Magnolia Rick said…
- welcome to the group. Tell us about your pond on our pond group
- At 4:52pm on February 5, 2010,
Bruce Condello said…
- Welcome to Big Bluegill, Nick! Feel free to add some bluegill photos of your own.
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Ditto, but they shut up after going with or eating the results.
Aw shucks there I go making a fool out of myself on line again. Sorry about the whole rooked thing, I saw that was on a different post of one of your pics Zach. I'm a little paranoid about Google, so thats where that came from. I've gotta work on my…
thats a big ole chinqupin
My stomach usually doesn't give the scales enough time to join in on the action though.
They are a very different fish I'll say that. The best I have figured so far is that they like the bottom and live bait, not to say that they wont strike an artificial, it takes some real skill though from what I can gather and I really admire those…
I was kind of worried about that, but I have seen some variations of Hybrids look this way, or at least that is what was posted on the internet.
We always called these black pearch.
To be honest I do not think the Green Sunfish have the yellow bel…
I am still trying to figure out how to fish for Redear. I have not had much luck with them. The seem to be pretty smart.
Do you have tricks you would like to share on catching these guys?
Did you happen to get the weight of any of these fish?
They fight just like a big bluegill. I am told you can eat them but haven't tried yet. The ones we caught today went to a friend who has a pet shop. I wouldn't mind trying them though. They are local to south Texas and I would imagine that they eat…
Oops sorry Zach I forgot about need a trout stamp on your license.
Bank access has improved since they began stocking trout back in the late 90's. As of now State regs require a trout license to fish it during the season ($10). If you plan to launch a boat you will need a permit. Not sure about other options as far…
About the only time you can fish Pawhuska from the bank is when they drop the lake for trout season. There is no cost to fish it.
I know, I will have to try it out this fall when the temps drop a bit. Can you fish it from the bank at all, and is there a cost to fish it?
Oh brother, Zach living in Northeast Oklahoma and having not fished this lake before......Let me tell you.
A spring fed 90 Acres of Heaven.
The wildlife department comes in and stocks trout every other week from November until the end of March (bl…
Cedric you are truly gifted to be capable of putting things like this into the words they way that you do. I've been reading your posts, you have just gained a huge fan. Cant wait to hear more from you!
I have yet to fish lake Pawhuska, is it a nice lake? Did they stock everything in it?
So how do they fight and can you eat them?
almost has a knot head
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