People eat catfish that are over 10lbs?
COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN ABOUT TO GET SHANKED BY AGFC
Tomorrow the AGFC will enact a catfish size limit on the Mississippi River along with Tennessee and Mississippi .It seems this was spurred by Bill Dance and BASSPRO to preserve so called TROPHY CATFISH on the river.It will reduce all harvests to only 1 fish over 34 inches for all anglers including the commercial fisherman.JB WELD you may wanna step in and make some waves on this.It’s headed to the same place our duck hunting went for a FEW DOLLARS MORE.Our commercial fisherman have been harvesting big catfish outta the river for decades and I certainly don’t feel like they have hurt the TROPHY fish there at all.There’s many guides making lotsa money taking folks to the Mississippi to catch trophy catfish and it’s not really that hard to do.These guys making a living on fish outta that river are gonna suffer from this beat down.
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My email is not AGFC it’s from another group announcing tomorrow as the meeting.
Only those who catch em over 10 lbs😂People eat catfish that are over 10lbs?
That is the agenda for the commission meeting. You can watch it live on Utube I think. I know it will be available on Utube after it is recorded because I have watched one before. It looks to have some interesting topics.
@JB Weld why don’t you have the boys and girl over for some mint julips and get to the bottom of this?
No limit between the levees of the Mississippi River. 34” fish is probably 20lbs or less. Undeniably they’re better eating in most people’s mind. But that’s beside the point, there’s really not enough true commercial fishermen out there to hurt the population.If May have changed but in the past we could keep 10 catfish over 10” and 10 under 10”
I’ve fished the Mississippi several years and rarely see more than a boat or two unless there’s a tournament going on.
I fish for cats quite a bit with rod and reel. I fish the Ar river from Spadra to Van buren, Kerr, Hudson and Grand in OK. In my experience if you want a better opportunity to catch more and quality fish go where commercial fishing isn't allowed. I think there are plenty of fish and dont want to hurt the commercial guys. I dont keep fish over 10# and usually not over 7# due to taste preference so I am for throwing the bigger fish back, but Im not making a living from it.
I thought catfish came from farm ponds. I’ve never seen a single fillet from a 34” fish on a buffet. If there’s not many commercial fishermen, and the rivers full of brazilians of catfish, why do they need to keep the old trophy’s?
Its the same regulation that is on the Tennessee River. Limit 1 fish over 34 inches.I’m curious where the number of “one fish” came from. I’m no catfish expert on the Mississippi but seems like you couldn’t hurt the numbers even on that length. Most of the big trophy guys that I’ve seen, release them back so I guess most likely that’s where it’s coming from also.
The ones at the buffet usually are pond fish. The ones Bob is buying 20-30 lbs for a fish fry not so much. There are plenty of deer, would you vote to make it illegal to kill bucks over 115" ?I thought catfish came from farm ponds. I’ve never seen a single fillet from a 34” fish on a buffet. If there’s not many commercial fishermen, and the rivers full of brazilians of catfish, why do they need to keep the old trophy’s?
OK allows 1 blue over 30" and there are no regs on flathead length
I am fine saying your allowed 1 buck over 115”.The ones at the buffet usually are pond fish. The ones Bob is buying 20-30 lbs for a fish fry not so much. There are plenty of deer, would you vote to make it illegal to kill bucks over 115" ?
More than one? I think we’ve been over this….The ones at the buffet usually are pond fish. The ones Bob is buying 20-30 lbs for a fish fry not so much. There are plenty of deer, would you vote to make it illegal to kill bucks over 115" ?
is it a bad thing to turn loose all the > 34" catfish ?
I ran hoop nets with a guy one summer, we caught 100's of 2-3# catfish ... that's a pretty good operation without keeping anything bigger than 34"
I ran hoop nets with a guy one summer, we caught 100's of 2-3# catfish ... that's a pretty good operation without keeping anything bigger than 34"
What percentage of the commercial fishermen's catch is 34" or greater as of today? That's the first question I would want answered.
"In God we trust; all others bring data" Edward Deming
"In God we trust; all others bring data" Edward Deming
I don’t know how it would affect commercial fishermen honestly so I couldn’t speak either way and I don’t think I would I support such a Reg until I knew and had input from those guys making a living off it. I guess one could look at these trophy catfish guides make the same living off the resource. So I guess there’s a balance plus this might be just simplifying the Regs for all 3 states they’re using the same water.
I remember an old man and his wife coming in to one of the landings on the Mississippi several years ago. Their boat was absolutely loaded with 20-30+ pound catfish. Not sure they had room to sit without sitting on catfish and there was only a couple inches of freeboard before the water would have come over the gunwales. Very dangerous situation for sure but man, they had a bunch of catfish!
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