Anglers' Legacy
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Nuisance fish?
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- 30secfisherman says:
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Posted on: April 26th, 2009
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- Gutt says:
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Posted on: July 10th, 2009
A Pan Fish a Day Keeps "Stunting" Away
Certain fish populations, including sunfish, perch and bullheads, would benefit by more people fishing for them. Many anglers don't even know all these fish are out there waiting to be caught. Without enough angling pressure, pan fish may overpopulate a lake or pond, resulting in a lot of very small fish. This phenomenon, called “stunting” can be helped by anglers who take pan fish home and discover that pan fish can be some of the most delicious fish to eat.
Taken from here: www.takemefishing.org/fishing/...
That's quite possibly one of the reasons... otherwise it's the rest of the species that they are trying to build up a population, therefore not wanting you to take any fish out.
Make sense?
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- 30secfisherman says:
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Posted on: July 11th, 2009
I talked with VDGIF and was told that crappie compete with bass, that the perch spawn before the bass and feast on the baby bass. Surprisingly, was also told that all bass under 13" should be culled!
It may be too late as the "average" bass caught is now only 11+" ...
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Our HOA has a peculiar set of rules: catch and release on our 25 acre lake EXCEPT for crappie and perch. Anyone know why crappie and perch would be so undesireable? Also have LMB, bluegill, sunfish, no [more] catfish.