A 10" size limit on T-ville wouldn't hurt my feelings ... but, only if the data showed that the lake would benefit from the size increase. And by that I mean that the population would continue to thrive, as well as reach that 10" length on a consistent basis.
Like you, in years past, it was nothing to catch 100 Crappie in a day at T-ville & sometimes not get a limit of keeper sized fish. BUT, in Spring of 2015 & 2016 ... 11-14" fish were there in huge numbers, and catching a limit of them was fairly easy. Not so much this past Spring 2017 ... whether their numbers had been reduced significantly in the previous two years, or the flooded conditions of the lake were to blame, I don't know. I just know that, for me, it was back to weeding through the sub-legal sized fish to get many in the 9-10" lengths. But, even then it was more like a 3:1 ratio and not a 10:1 (dink to keeper) ratio.
Dropping the state wide limit from 30 to 20/day wouldn't affect me much, either. But, I can hear my Green River Lake guys crying already. LOL !!




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