The Elephant in the room

[Technonorb]

Good news... Hope all fishing comes back. My favorite place and always planned to get a house on the lake and retire there...

[Wormin]

Good news... Hope all fishing comes back. My favorite place and always planned to get a house on the lake and retire there...

I found this on the crappie in Kentucky lake its has a lot of good info.https://mail.twc.com/do/mail/message...US&v=twc_theme

[Wormin]

https://www.outdoorlife.com/articles...appies-degrees

[Wormin]

https://www.outdoorlife.com/articles...appies-degrees

try that link on crappie at ky lake

[Technonorb]

Hey... I hope all is good but I personally, and friends who live there don't see it either. Check out recent You Tube Bass tourney.

[redearhoosier]

I'm hoping and praying that the commercial fishermen who are finally getting very serious about pursuing asian carp, will provide light at the end of the tunnel. If you do the math, just one seasoned commercial boat crew can catch an absolutely staggering amount of AC in one week. Apparently they've been fished out in parts of Asia, so that's a good footnote.

I'm sure by the end of May, I'll have a stronger opinion one way or the other. I have seen very thick and girthy crappie and redear so far this spring. I've always been a strong believer in girthy fish ='s a healthy fishery. Of course as a local property owner, I'm of course biased.

[Technonorb]

Again great news... keep us up on whats going on. Thanks Tech

[jcb]

I'm hoping and praying that the commercial fishermen who are finally getting very serious about pursuing asian carp, will provide light at the end of the tunnel. If you do the math, just one seasoned commercial boat crew can catch an absolutely staggering amount of AC in one week. Apparently they've been fished out in parts of Asia, so that's a good footnote.

I'm sure by the end of May, I'll have a stronger opinion one way or the other. I have seen very thick and girthy crappie and redear so far this spring. I've always been a strong believer in girthy fish ='s a healthy fishery. Of course as a local property owner, I'm of course biased.

Redear, any idea how property values have been affected if at all by this? I have heard rumors...

[peter]

They seem to be doing better on getting people around here to eat them. They say they are really good. A few years ago I was in a restaurant in a different state and had fish dish with an oriental name. It was very good so I asked what kind of fish it was as and they said Silver Carp.

https://www.leoweekly.com/2019/04/ca...ck-knife-fork/

[redearhoosier]

Redear, any idea how property values have been affected if at all by this? I have heard rumors...

JCB, I was convinced around this same time last year that things were headed south on property values but I personally haven't seen that play out.

With my little place they've actually gone up a bit. We paid around 43k for our place in 2014 and comparables are going for 60-65k. That's not to say it hasn't hurt some properties, I'm sure it has but I'm not directly aware of that happening.

[Technonorb]

Thanks Peter... hope they are good top eat. Saw a Duck Dinasty episode where they served them and people liked them but thought it was bogus.

[bigwormy]

We used to go to Barkley every year the first week of May starting in 2000. The fishing was unbelievable. Sad what has happened. We finally switched our spring trip to lake st Claire three years ago. The fishing is unbelievable at st Claire, but I still desire to fish Barkley. There is nothing like throwing a buzzbait through the flowers or around the bushes and catching fish. You could call your strikes at times and knew when to hang on after making a cast. I know every groove of demumbers bay, willow bay. Nickel, clay, mammouth and so on. I too dreamed of getting a place on Barkley for weekend trips and more. However, all has changed do to the carp invasion. It’s so disheartening! As I may catch a ton of fish at st Claire, it’s still not as fun as the type of fishing we used to do at Barkley.