good move throwing them back for one there old spawnners... that don't spawn as fast as the younger fish but give the little fish a lesson on how to become bigger fish like were to spawn what they eat when there is not much available.. i guess what i am saying is good habits bread big fish.. fish become big because of habits they have... take all the big fish out all you got is little fish that stay little cause they don't see what the big one does year round... like farm pounds you can only have so much little fish in there before they stop growing too it is all the environment for the fish and how it effect the fish in the long run.. any how very good choice on throwing them back the bigger fish do breed bigger fish too so it a matter of ethics and when there not full of eggs you made a good choice no mater what... so when's the next gill fry?i sure you could time it?? lol's maybe you should do gill pic on a board marked with inches like they got for bass then we can see the scope of the fish your catching so people can under stand the effort and why it is worth good management... then you can get some good pic's up with out having to fry em right away... lol's
got a few pics of one fat female. i did get a few large males, but let them go too and kept nothing, again. i caught 20 in all.they were hitting the black spider with yellow segmented legs i make.
slowed down a lot a few days ago for gills. probably the water/run off is messing with them for now. got another 10" femal egg bound and let her go. i let all of them go until they are done with spwning.maybe its time to go crsppie fishing up the kal river east of marshall. i get 16" crappies on minnows (when i used them), but now i just toss lures for them and get gills and bass and pike and carp and what evers around on them.should be out today and the weekend, see how their doing.
