settle a crappie weight dispute at ky & barkley

[SDK]

I was wondering how cutting back the limits will reduce the quality of the fish also. If food sources on KY lake were tight I could understand it, but KY has plenty of cover and abundant resources from everything that I have read and observed.

As for the quality of the crappie on KY lake, I would say that your friend is probably correct. The 15" to 16" fish there will be a little over 2 pounds and are 1/2 again as thick as crappie from most other KY and TN lakes. We fish for crappie at KY Lake every year and are impressed year after year with the size of the fish. The crappie that we catch elsewhere (Cumberland, Watts Bar, Laurel, Dale, even Weiss for pure size, etc.) just do not compare.

[trentonc2000]

i don't crappie fish on either, but i do catch them while bass fishing and yes, the ones i catch are pretty hefty.

[davidsa]

As I recall, the last 18 inch crappie we had from KYL was around 2.25lbs. To look at this fish, you might swear it would weigh 3lbs but the digital scale has made an honest man of me!