URL crappie boom #2

I don’t like or subscribe to ANYBODY. I might take a few pics and send them to my sons/daughter or a couple of close friends. Some of these people don’t even fish!

MX1825 wrote:

I don’t like or subscribe to ANYBODY. I might take a few pics and send them to my sons/daughter or a couple of close friends.

This is me too. Occasionally I’ll post a photo here.

Even the walleye guys are getting in on it!!

Man I can’t watch target walleye. Brett bothers me for some reason.

CaptainMusky wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Ripjiggen wrote:</div>
And why wouldn’t they…

precisely

Your guys and your hatred for Youtube is funny. Pretty sure the last time the lake was raped and pillaged Youtube wasn’t around, but the resorts were.

Both are just making a buck off a natural resource.

Justin riegel wrote:

Your guys and your hatred for Youtube is funny. Pretty sure the last time the lake was raped and pillaged Youtube wasn’t around, but the resorts were.

Both are just making a buck off a natural resource.

Where in anything either of us posted led you to that conclusion? I watch vids on youtube all the time.

CaptainMusky wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Justin riegel wrote:</div>
Your guys and your hatred for Youtube is funny. Pretty sure the last time the lake was raped and pillaged Youtube wasn’t around, but the resorts were.

Both are just making a buck off a natural resource.

Where in anything either of us posted led you to that conclusion? I watch vids on youtube all the time.

CaptainMusky wrote:

I don’t ever like a YouTube video but calling them out in comments should be done.

Its just hypocritical to say one party can exploit the lake for financial gain while another is the devil for doing so. Really I meant you guys as in the overall tone of this thread.

Justin riegel wrote:

Its just hypocritical to say one party can exploit the lake for financial gain while another is the devil for doing so. Really I meant you guys as in the overall tone of this thread.

You quoted the two of us, not just a general comment. I never once said that its OK for resorts to exploit the lake. I have been VERY vocal about my disdain for ice roads and all these wheelhouses on public waters and I firmly believe they should pay extreme fees because they benefit off a public resource and should be responsible for stocking efforts in many cases.

Your guys and your hatred for Youtube is funny. Pretty sure the last time the lake was raped and pillaged Youtube wasn’t around, but the resorts were.

Both are just making a buck off a natural resource.
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No hatred. I like lots of videos, some guys I just don’t jive with. Normal human nature.

There’s not going to be any “boom” again. The previous “boom” was before social media, live scope, and other top notch technology that has made the sport easier for the masses (clothing, gear, wheelhouses, etc).

It’s nice to see catchable populations that meander the vast waters, but I just don’t see the ceiling for population being anywhere near what it was years ago. There will always be people catching them, posting videos targeting them, and even guides chasing them. That doesn’t equate to any average person filling buckets of slabs with ease like it did in the original crappie boom.

If I’m not mistaken, the first “boom” was because the primary predator, walleyes, were way down. It may have even been when the lake was closed to walleye fishing. With that population having rebounded, I wouldn’t expect the crappie boom to ever be as high as it was the first time around.

gimruis wrote:

If I’m not mistaken, the first “boom” was because the primary predator, walleyes, were way down.

Predator to crappie fingerlings and competitor to the adults. That was a huge part of it. The other part was a few banner crappie spawns in consecutive years, which is rare on Red because it’s so susceptible to wind. The crappie spawn on Red is boom or bust and busts probably 9/10 times. So huge spawns, no juvenile predation, and no competition for food. The perfect storm.

Crappies aren’t long lived, I’d bet more died of old age than went home in buckets

I don’t think walleye predation crappies did much influenced crappie numbers a bit but the competition for food, minus the heavy walleye base, allowed the crappies to attain the large size that the first boom showed.

In all the walleyes I have filleted over the years where a strong crappie base in the water, also existed, I never saw a crappie in the gut of a walleye. Crappie fry might be an incidental edible, but I don’t call them a significant source of food for walleyes in most water and certainly not in a lake the size of Red.

I hate to say it but there are A LOT more people than guides, resorts, and youtubers making a living off of a public resource. JMO

Jimmy Jones wrote:

I don’t think <em class=”ido-tag-em”>walleye predation crappies did much influenced crappie numbers a bit but the competition for food, minus the heavy walleye base, allowed the <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>crappies to attain the large size that the first boom showed.

In all the walleyes I have filleted over the years where a strong crappie base in the water, also existed, I never saw a crappie in the gut of a walleye. Crappie fry might be an incidental edible, but I don’t call them a significant source of food for <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>walleyes in most water and certainly not in a lake the size of Red.

Funny you mention this. This winter I cleaned a walleye with a 4” crappie in its belly. First time ever. I was on a lake in the Brainerd area.

I have never stopped targeting them. We use to have a crappie get together/ hunt. Lots of auguring before the cheatmaster 3000 fish eliminator. Just about every year I have our houses still on the lake targeting them. 2015 was pretty darn good.

Bearcat89 wrote:

Man I can’t watch target walleye. Brett bothers me for some reason.

Same! I think if he changed his face, I could stand him? That and he always giggles like a school girl while talking which is annoying AF.