URL crappie boom #2

  • MX1825
    Posts: 3319
    #2254382

    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!

    gim
    Plymouth, MN
    Posts: 17834
    #2254407

    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. waytogo

    grubson
    Harris, Somewhere in VNP
    Posts: 1640
    #2254443

    Even the walleye guys are getting in on it!!

    Bearcat89
    North branch, mn
    Posts: 20815
    #2254446

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

    Justin riegel
    Posts: 952
    #2254449

    <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.

    CaptainMusky
    Posts: 23373
    #2254451

    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.

    Justin riegel
    Posts: 952
    #2254455

    <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.

    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.

    CaptainMusky
    Posts: 23373
    #2254458

    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.

    Bearcat89
    North branch, mn
    Posts: 20815
    #2254462

    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.

    buckybadger
    Upper Midwest
    Posts: 8389
    #2254464

    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.

    gim
    Plymouth, MN
    Posts: 17834
    #2254465

    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.

    tswoboda
    Posts: 8721
    #2254468

    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

    Jimmy Jones
    Posts: 2912
    #2254470

    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.

    mxskeeter
    SW Wisconsin
    Posts: 3944
    #2254574

    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

    AK Guy
    Posts: 1428
    #2254576

    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.

    cookie
    waskish minnesota on upper red lake
    Posts: 886
    #2256635

    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.

    eyeguy507
    SE MN
    Posts: 5221
    #2256648

    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.

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