Are giant panfish coming to a lake near you!!!

[skinny40]

Well the Dec has a plan.... https://www.dec.ny.gov/press/122166.html

[Mac Attack]

Wow

[rgfixit]

Quite a plan. I can live with it.

Rg

[filetandrelease]

 Well Caz and six town will end up full of dinks more fish competing for the same food , I’ve fished these lakes for many years
 Plus the people on Caz are killing off the weeds 

[rgfixit]

Interesting Fred. I’ve fished Honeoye for a very long time. There’s a good population of gills, but it gets hammered hard. Maybe a size and reduced limit would help foster some big old gills.

I’m no fisheries biologist.just my thoughts.

Rg

[Mac Attack]

I think they should require fish over 9” to be thrown back and get rid of the limit.  Cull the dinks.
I’ve fished Silver and Honeoye and they are both loaded with dinks.

[filetandrelease]

Interesting Fred. I’ve fished Honeoye for a very long time. There’s a good population of gills, but it gets hammered hard. Maybe a size and reduced limit would help foster some big old gills.I’m no fisheries biologist.just my thoughts.Rg

I’ve never fished there so I’ll take the word of somebody that has spent years fishing it without question

[gotagetm]

Plan looks interesting to me

[rgfixit]

Spring, fall and winter there. No sense trying to fish it in summer.. early spring yields some of the biggest sunfish I’ve ever seen. Winter can ...at times....give up some huge gills. But, over the past 5-10 years, size is much more difficult to come by. Not laying blame...just saying.

Rg

[Doubles Shooter]

I think they should require fish over 9” to be thrown back and get rid of the limit.  Cull the dinks.
I’ve fished Silver and Honeoye and they are both loaded with dinks.

I agree 100%. Silver has a huge population of decent panfish. If anything, just lower the limit a bit. I get nervous any time the state tries to fix a problem that doesn't exist. Why the he-- does everyone have to have the biggest and best of everything? There are a lot of folks that feed their families with the fish they catch. With the road this country is headed down, It will be even more important.

[DANMAN]

Comments on the draft plan should be submitted via e-mail to [email protected]   before february 15 2021


Draft Plan Highlights

Reducing the sunfish statewide daily harvest limit from 50 to 25 fish.
Increasing the crappie statewide minimum size limit from 9 to 10 inches.
Establishing the Big Panfish Initiative, which includes:
Implementing an 8-inch minimum size limit and a daily harvest limit of 15 for sunfish in the following waters: Blydenburgh Lake (DEC Region 1), Lake Welch (Region 3), Canadarago Lake and Goodyear Lake (Region 4), Saratoga Lake (Region 5), Sixtown Pond and Red Lake (Region 6), Cazenovia Lake and Otisco Lake (Region 7), Honeoye Lake (Region , and Silver Lake (Region 9)
Implementing a 12-inch minimum size limit and a daily harvest limit of 10 for crappie in the following waters: Blydenburgh Lake (DEC Region 1), Muscoot Reservoir (Region 3), Saratoga Lake (Region 5), Delta Lake (Region 6), Cazenovia Lake and Otisco Lake (Region 7), Waneta/Lamoka lakes and Honeoye Lake (Region , and Bear Lake (Region 9)

[greensider]

First they told people they can’t shoot a four point buck now it’s a trophy panfish state they want i call crap most ponds and lakes will never put out crappie and gills the size they want and for decades they have preached keep panfish to help the rest grow it just more control leave it as is

[fishogger]

I agree 100%. Silver has a huge population of decent panfish. If anything, just lower the limit a bit. I get nervous any time the state tries to fix a problem that doesn't exist. Why the he-- does everyone have to have the biggest and best of everything? There are a lot of folks that feed their families with the fish they catch. With the road this country is headed down, It will be even more important.

agreed! I feed my family at least once a week on catch too.

id bet its a change made from a small group of no harvesters types that are just yelling the loudest so they think that's majority thinking.   

[rgfixit]

Only one way to counteract that. Speak up!
Rg

[rgfixit]

Here’s an interesting read  regarding response to their survey.
https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/sunfishanglersurveytb.pdf

I find it interesting that they sent the survey to their 147,000 subscribers and that only 1400 answered. If I’m reading it correctly, that’s a pretty apathetic reaponse.

Rg