After having lived in New England and seeing the intense colors of the trees in the fall I moved to Indiana. I heard people bragging about the fall colors in Nashville, Indiana. Having gone to college in Bloomington, Indiana not from there, and seeing them, I couldn't stop laughing. No comparison. Not even close!
I'm not a trout fisherman but d**n they are beautiful!!!
As a taxidermist when I paint a male brookie in spawning colors what really makes them pop are the blue halos with the red dot in the center. I paint the halo a silvery blue and then put the dot in the center with a red sharpie.
I love the fine details in their coloring
I strongly believe even panfish can be fished down in smaller lakes especially if there is no bag limit as in bluegills. Sure you won't get them all but you sure can decimate the larger males on the beds. I've seen people come through and pull every last male off the beds. A busy colony ends up fishless. Same goes for crappies. I fish a lake that is rimed with bullrushes the crappies spawn in. I've seen pontoon boats scour every little opening all the way around the lake and with 10 people aboard they can keep up to 250 fish. They obviously don't get them all but the sizes seem to go down over the years.
i have seen two older guys on three different lakes this spring. thats all they were doing. searched the entire lake shore for bedding fish. then they loaded up the boat and headed to another lake im sure. that kind of fishing can surly put a huge dent in the population. i would be in favor of some law prohibiting that. maybe closed season for a month or 6 weeks? im not convinced about a gill limit though, especially if they are allowed to spawn unmolested. i dont walleye fish much but i know they get fished hard on some lakes. how much better could that be with lower takes? i read a lot about hurshtown on here. that isnt very big at all but supposed to be good fishing? how could it be such a great walleye water with people working it over so much? unless its just a ruse? lots of restrictions there though, maybe not many fish it? a place like monroe would be hard to hurt but not so with the tiny waters of the northern half of the state. IMOironic that fishing sites hurt the fishing
We've discussed this topic many times on here and we hear the same opinions, that's ok with me so here is my opinion. I've been fishing all my 58 yrs. Most of those yrs very hard, harder than most. From what I've seen over the yrs the fishing pressure is nothing compared to yrs ago when people fished for food and everyone fished. There were good lakes and bad even back then and there was even less harvest laws than there is now. I never saw a lake fished down or even size changed from large to small but can say when the fishing pressure remand high on a giving lake the size tended to grow with numbers dropping. The really BIG change I've seen that I'm convinced has change the fishing is water quality. We no longer have many lakes that stay free of crap vegetation, alga blooms, stained water. Some of the lakes I still fish today used to have wild rice, clean growing weed edges, bull rushes and other things. The fishing in my opinion now is just as good as ever if not better than long ago. The people fishing with all the tech that is out there are relying on the equipment and aren't working at adjusting to the changes in the lake they fish or the species they fish for. Time on the water is the key and most don't have time or wiliness to commit. I know Indiana has some very good waters for pan fish, you just have to find them just like many yrs ago. We may not have as many good lakes as some of the other states that we get compared too, but I like to think percentage wise we are right with them. The Short of this is in my opinion is the there is no need for closed seasons or limits, a lake can't be fished out or even down anymore because of fishing pressure. Quality will only return to giving lake if water quality changes or learning how to find the quality fish. fish
there is no need for closed seasons or limits, a lake can't be fished out or even down anymore because of fishing pressure. Quality will only return to giving lake if water quality changes or learning how to find the quality fish. fish