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I would like to see this a state wide limit, not just Bartlett and Rosey! agree with this, don't know why Alamo wasn't included.as far as crappie spawn this year at Bartlett it may not have been very good due to SRP the first group of crappie moved up shallow to spawn (real shallow) as they always do to find the warmest water and due to our goofy spring that took a while, SRP brought Bartlett up to 100% and right in the middle of that group up they shut off flows from horse shoe lake and droppeed Bartlett down 7-8' for some reason with water still in horseshoe and Verde flows stable SRP did that 3 time this spring the worse was right at the full moon phase when the biggest group of crappie made their move up so they spawn a little deeper but SRP dropped the lake a bunch not all crappie follow the rules and spawn on full moons but SRP could not of timed a worse drop in lake levels at Bartlett than they did this year. On the other hand Roosevelt probably had a fantastic spawn as that lake went up real slow and actually was stable for months and the crappie were up playing all spring. Actuallly g and f did quite a bit of creel surveys at bartlett and looked at their fish survey results from their past years etc. and the new fisheries boss Chris Cantrell actually seems to care about improving our warm water fisheries.
I would like to see the science behind the proposal.
Quote from: sandman on June 21, 2013, 09:37 AMI would like to see the science behind the proposal.You won't because there is none. Bad catch rates being reported is it.
Quote from: Piscolli on June 23, 2013, 09:32 AMQuote from: sandman on June 21, 2013, 09:37 AMI would like to see the science behind the proposal.You won't because there is none. Bad catch rates being reported is it.Exactly. These kinds of knee-jerk reactions often have the reverse effect. I saw good bass lakes destroyed by limits/restrictions that were imposed due to 'poor catch rates', not based on biologist recommendations. I also saw small lakes start producing wall-hangers after science-based adjustments were made.It seems like our state is lacking on experienced fish/game biologists. If so, it would be nice to have some real experts come in, assess the situation, and make recommendations.