Deep Crappies study.

[leech~~]

Good stuff and kind of verified some known facts!  

Keep um and eat um from deep water.  

 

 

 

[Wanderer]

2 hours ago, leech~~ said:

Good stuff and kind of verified some known facts!  

Keep um and eat um from deep water.  

 

 

 

Would you believe it if I told you I know what that “Northern MN” lake was?  Haha!
 

I agree with a lot of what the findings in that study but they still had more work to do.  Aaron Wiebe of Uncut Angling got tied up in that debate shortly after the video you posted aired.  They’ve still been rehashing opinions, variations and suggestions about that study since it happened.

 

At least it’s being acknowledged and the nay sayers probably just don’t want to stop fishing some easy fish they’ve found.  Anybody who can be objective about their own actions and fishes a lot has to know this is real.  But also it occurs at varying degrees depending on the fish and the body of water.

[carlsonmn]

That was a better study compared to last winter when they setup the vertical tube nets and tried to release exhausted fish from being studied and expected them to be able to swim straight down a 3' hoop net.  

 

That lake's crappie population from this latest video was pretty deep at 40-50', and no doubt from those depths that is barotrauma for most.  That is deeper than most crappie holes but certainly how some are. However from helping give fish a good release from the 35' and less range and tracking them with live sonar most of them swim at a shallow angle back to the depths and I watch them rejoin the school and be active.  Uncut Angling's video helped counter some of the initial narrow findings.  

Edited February 12 by carlsonmn

[leech~~]

I wonder like divers, if we let them decompress every 10' for 1/2hr. If that would help?   

It would slow the bite down a bit! 

[Kettle]

Obviously this is more of a hot topic due to forward facing sonar. With that being said, I know people who have pulled crappies out of basins 40+ deep since the fl-8 and zercom flashers came out. That's over 30 years ago. I do think there's a push to ban these in MN and I could see them doing it here. They'll have to pay my livescope from my cold dead hands on days I can't catch a walleye jigging or rigging it's nice to turn it on and throw corks at individual fish

[smurfy]

I don't need no livescope to catch fish.... 

It's all in how ya wiggle the worm!

Just sayin  

[Wanderer]

1 hour ago, smurfy said:

I don't need no livescope to catch fish.... 

Nope!  But it’s more funner!

[Kettle]

15 hours ago, smurfy said:

I don't need no livescope to catch fish.... 

It's all in how ya wiggle the worm!

Just sayin  

I mean to catch pike you just need a shiny object...

[smurfy]

1 hour ago, Kettle said:

I mean to catch pike you just need a shiny object...

 not near as shiny and spendy as that livescope toy. Thats kinda like bling ain't it?

besides i'm on a paultry union pension  

[Kettle]

It is  pretty shiny piece of equipment. I was able to purchase it on my scab job wages

I don't think I'll update the electronics any time soon, 3 screens is enough?