2024-25 fishing regulations

[RUGER]

Wonder when they will be out ?
I haven't found anything yet?
Wondering when the new crappie regulations will be out where you can see them.

 

[redblood]

Wonder when they will be out ?
I haven't found anything yet?
Wondering when the new crappie regulations will be out where you can see them.

They have changed crappie regulations? How?

 

[Urban_Hunter]

They have changed crappie regulations? How?

I didn't know this either

Interested to see

 

[RUGER]

They have changed crappie regulations? How?

In all the Bill Dance signature lakes they have removed the length and creel limits.
Supposedly on some of the TWRA fishing lakes.

 

[MickThompson]

I heard they were going to a 2- bull gill limit

 

[TN Song Dog]

I heard they were outlawing PBs and Tarps too

 

[WTM]

lol hold your horses man its not time yet.

 

[redblood]

In all the Bill Dance signature lakes they have removed the length and creel limits.
Supposedly on some of the TWRA fishing lakes.

i can understand the creel limits if the lakes are overstocked, but not sure how removing size limit would help. not much meat on a 9.5" crappie

 

[redblood]

In all the Bill Dance signature lakes they have removed the length and creel limits.
Supposedly on some of the TWRA fishing lakes.

what is a bill dance lake?

 

[RUGER]

I heard they were outlawing PBs and Tarps too

I'm all for the PBs !!!

 

[Buzzard Breath]

 

[RUGER]

what is a bill dance lake?

Twra and a few other departments teamed up with Bill Dance to make 10 lakes better and to "drive economic activity year round for each surrounding community"

 

[Buzzard Breath]

I can't figure out how to attach a pdf, but you can find them here.

https://tnsos.org/rules/WildlifeProclamations.php

 

[WTM]

i can understand the creel limits if the lakes are overstocked, but not sure how removing size limit would help. not much meat on a 9.5" crappie

theyre being managed as trophy bass lakes and for bluegill. crappie become overpopulated in small lakes under the state wide length limit.

they want them gone.

 

[WTM]

traditionally new regs have went into effect on march 1st. fyi better get there the first two weeks or it will be wrapped up with social media potlickers and hole buzzards.

 

[RUGER]

traditionally new regs have went into effect on march 1st. fyi better get there the first two weeks or it will be wrapped up with social media potlickers and hole buzzards.

Yep.

 

[redblood]

Twra and a few other departments teamed up with Bill Dance to make 10 lakes better and to "drive economic activity year round for each surrounding community"

i was surprised to see tims ford as a bill dance lake. i sure do enjoy pulling big crappie out of there. i hope the regulations dont mess that up

 

[redblood]

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so if im reading that right- a person can keep as many crappie (of any size) as they want from halford, graham, browns creek, garrett, glenn springs, parsons, maple creek, carroll and whiteville lakes?

i have never heard of any of those actually

 

[mike243]

We have run a very restrictive limit for a long time on the east side, a few state park lakes have no length limit just a number limit, I don't keep anything to small to get a good filet from and that is 9" and up but can be a challenge a lot of days.

 

[redblood]

We have run a very restrictive limit for a long time on the east side, a few state park lakes have no length limit just a number limit, I don't keep anything to small to get a good filet from and that is 9" and up but can be a challenge a lot of days.

i guess it varies from fishery to fishery but i fish woods, tims and sometime normandy. and very rarely do we ever catch a fish under 10" and most are quite a bit bigger than that. as skinny and slender as a white crappie is , a 10' one wouldnt make much more than a nugget

 

[TNLynn]

7-8" scraped and fried whole probably one of my favorite meals

 

[mike243]

It does vary a lot, I caught a crappie that was shorter than my minnow several years back on Melton Hill lake, to this day I have never caught a smaller 1 but a lot of 5-8"

 

[Buzzard Breath]

so if im reading that right- a person can keep as many crappie (of any size) as they want from halford, graham, browns creek, garrett, glenn springs, parsons, maple creek, carroll and whiteville lakes?

i have never heard of any of those actually

Yep

 

[RUGER]

It does vary a lot, I caught a crappie that was shorter than my minnow several years back on Melton Hill lake, to this day I have never caught a smaller 1 but a lot of 5-8"

What gets me is when you catch 9 1/2" crappie that are 1 1/2" thick or thicker.

 

[redblood]

7-8" scraped and fried whole probably one of my favorite meals

gonna have to try that with some 10 inchers. never have do a crappie whole, but saw a video where they scaled , gutted, cut the head off and grid cut and battered a small crappie and blue gill and they looked great

 

[WTM]

blacks are thicker than whites usually. most of these lakes are black crappie that were stocked then got out of hand.

normandy, woods, and tims ford are heavily stocked by the hatchery. if they didnt there provably wouldbt be many. if you catch a black nose then it came from a hatchery.

 

[redblood]

blacks are thicker than whites usually. most of these lakes are black crappie that were stocked then got out of hand.

normandy, woods, and tims ford are heavily stocked by the hatchery. if they didnt there provably wouldbt be many. if you catch a black nose then it came from a hatchery.

every single crappie i have caught at those lakes have been black nosed. maybe they just get a little bigger.

 

[WTM]

every single crappie i have caught at those lakes have been black nosed. maybe they just get a little bigger.

they are hybrids. even if a black nose is crossed with a white crappie theyll still retain the black nose gene but they can grow quicker and sometimes larger. theyll still spawn, if they are not sterile, but hybrids frye is quite smaller so predation pretty much wipes them out.

 

[tnanh]

I heard they were outlawing live scope.

 

[DayDay]

I heard they were outlawing live scope.

Live scopes are not mentioned in the proclamation that was linked.