Quackmasterofgeorgia
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It's also futile to throw smallmouths in a lake with spots, it's better if a person can keep 100 spots instead of just 10. In some way removing the limit will help.
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It's also futile to throw smallmouths in a lake with spots, it's better if a person can keep 100 spots instead of just 10. In some way removing the limit will help.
GA BASS ODYSSEY
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Blue Ridge is the last native Smallmouth lake In GA. DnR needs to do what they did on the Satilla River (Shoking Flatheads up)to control the spots. Remove limits on spots. Hold spot only most fish win tournaments regularly where no fish are released back. There is more they can do with some that wont cost the state a dime.
Quackmasterofgeorgia
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This is what needs to happen, but according to the chief of fisheries not enough people keep spots to remove the limit on them.
Actually stocking fish should do some good provided the fish are large enough to avoid most predation.
South Carolina stocks smallmouths into Lakes Jocassee and Keowee that have lots of spots and people catch some nice smallies.
The key is stocking a high density to overcome predation and other factors.
Water Swat
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Sounds like a waste of money. Why wouldn't these get eaten like the rest of the bass fry in the lake since the spots were introduced ?
There are no open limits on spots in NC.
The limit for most lakes is 5 fish, 2 can be less than 14 inches.
I'd love to see no size limits on any spots though.
Spots aren't eating all the bass fry. They are out breeding (and breeding with) and out competing the smallies and largemouth.
http://www.tnfish.org/PhotoGalleryF...ybridBassLargemouthSpottedNorrisNegus_jpg.htm
Yep, there are. Santeetlah has no size limit and no creel limit for bass under 14 inches. Guess why?
Chatuge has no size limit on spots, and the creel limit is doubled to ten.
These have been enacted recently. I would expect more of the same in the future, maybe. In most of our lakes infested with spots, very few of them reach the 14-inch minimum size limit.
The regulations at Chatuge were changed to match the GA regulations were they not, nothing more or less?
No idea about Santeetlah. Sorry to hear its full of spots now.
Fontana is full of spots as well apparently.
