My freezer is full of fish I support catch and eat when they get the hard water that's food a true sportsman the rest of the year throw every fish I catch back from trophies to baby's I fish all year spend thousand in gear and traveling it's nice ta get some off that back in groceries :) yee yee know what I hate about the Amish EVERYTHING total scumbaggs
Rope em and smoke em

Big Tuna as for loving to catch crappy or any other fish for that matter...... hell yes and someday, my luck will change for the better.

In the mean time, thank goodness for Friday's and all you can eat.😉

I have a hard time imagining how these processes works.  PA sets trap nets, collects fish and tallies fish.  In 2012 they had the best catches of black crappies they have ever had, at like 2200 fish.  The next netting, 2014, they had 560ish...  That same year, as stated here by an angler who was stopped on the water for a survey by the ODNR, anglers were surveyed about imposing a size limit to protect the number of fish being kept.  In 2016, PA surveys again, and the number is as low as 185 crappies.  The ODNR initiated conversations about upping the size limits...  So, PA biologists watch the population decrease while the ODNR is surveying anglers on success rates and how they use the fishery.  I am absolutely, 100% convinced that if it weren't for Ohio, (who mind you, only actually own ~1/4 of the lake) the regulations would be exactly the same as years past.  When will the PA fish and Boat Commission begin surveying anglers and determine how the resources are used??  What will it take to make them want to hear what the people using the resource want?? This is insane.  If no changes are made from the trapping surveys, aren't they just catching fish in the nets for the fun of it?????

I got surveyed years back at Kahle by a PFBC summer intern.
 
I was told they used Kahle as a control lake for the Pan fish enhancement study. They asked us what we thought should be the daily limit for pan fish, and if we thought there should be a minimum size limits on perch, crappie and bluegills/pumpkinseeds.

was interviewed at linsville, asked about cieaning boat and places i had been, nothing aboutfishing at pymy.i fished lakes in canada where they had a survey box at the ramp. just fill out the survey,( total number, # kept.) put in box no fuss.
 

 I was surveyed at N.E. ramp on Erie quite a few years ago. Not a PFBC Warden but temp summer help. She asked numerous Questions about licensing etc. as I recall. I tried to complain about 8" size on perch as every perch brought up had a balloon sticking out of its mouth. I would normally not keep under 8" perch but those I would have. She quickly informed me that I would have to complain directly with PFBC. I guess there was no multitasking with those surveyors.

JRSR
We need an executive order to ban the straw hat land rapists off the water. Ha

Can't agree more! We're on Mahoning in a 17' Lund with a 90 and a 9.9, and the PFBC dude has to check us out for licenses and life jackets. Meanwhile, 150 yds. away, are 5 strawhatters in a 14' boat, so overloaded it barely had any freeboard left, and nothing gets done about that.