size limits

[amaluminum]

Can anyone help me out with size limits on bass? i know right now its 12" spots, 15" largemouth, 18" smallmouth and a 5 fish limit in tournaments. i know the size limit and number of fish has changed severall times throughout the years. i am doing a project for school on how bass fishing has improved on chickamauga in the last say 10 years. a lot of my paper is going to be focused on why the fishing has improved. i wanted to talk about the size limits and other efforts made by TWRA. if anyone can help me out on the size limits and number of fish and if anyone has any more info i could use on whats cauing an improvement with the quality and quanity of bass. i am mostly focusing on largemouth. any helpful info, links, or lake stats would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[8 Ball]

not gonna help your paper much but danged old 18in smallie limit kills us tourney fishermen.

 

[sprestwood]

The current focus on bass seems to be on improving its feeder fish. The bass population varied on the health of shad and small sunfish. The improvement has been to add cover by which the bait fish can hide. I know it might seem backwards but if the bait fish grow bigger, they will produce more offspring, odds are a bass will catch more of that as food. TWRA seems to have conducted surveys with Tennessee universities using fishing tackle tax funding, these universities keep these reports. And by-the-way, the 12 inch reg on spots is a tournament reg, the state wide is in place on Chickamauga.

 

[Hal]

This web site will give you all the new rules and regs for the 2008 season, emoThumbsup


http://pub.jfgriffin.com/

 

[drumking]

amaluminum - 4/30/2008 5:56 PM

Can anyone help me out with size limits on bass? i know right now its 12" spots, 15" largemouth, 18" smallmouth and a 5 fish limit in tournaments. i know the size limit and number of fish has changed severall times throughout the years. i am doing a project for school on how bass fishing has improved on chickamauga in the last say 10 years. a lot of my paper is going to be focused on why the fishing has improved. i wanted to talk about the size limits and other efforts made by TWRA. if anyone can help me out on the size limits and number of fish and if anyone has any more info i could use on whats cauing an improvement with the quality and quanity of bass. i am mostly focusing on largemouth. any helpful info, links, or lake stats would be appreciated.

Thanks

If you are just talking about tx fishing, then your numbers are correct. However, there is no size limit on spots that you intend to keep and eat.

 

[Carl Guffey]

amaluminum, size limits are put in place following certain criteria. Some of the criteria used is from spring surveys, shocking crews(number of fish per hour and species) This will usually tell biologist which age groups are doing well and if there has been a downturn in the stocks. Fisherman surveys either with BITE reports or on the water surveys will reveal angler hours of participation and catchability of current fish in a given system. Size limits are to protect certain age groups for continued population sustainability and diversity. The same with creel numbers or limits in that they are specific to certain year classes and be increased or decreased following specific data from surveys.

As for tournament anglers, creel limits do not really make a difference, once you pay your money, the rules are the same for everyone.

The reason "chick is getting better" is simple it is green and lives in the water. Aquatic vegetation clarifies water providing great spawning diversity. The plants provide cover for young of the year "bass" a place to hide and feed providing greater numbers of bass to recruit for the following years.

These are some simple answers to very diverse questions. Please feel free to contact Anders Murr at the Region Three TWRA office, I feel sure he will answer all of your questions.