Owyhee

[Fishsticker]

I grew up a few miles from the road to the Owyhee and fished it constantly. The crappie in that lake are stunted because of numbers and in my opinion are too small generally to even bother filleting, I say keep hauling them out. If they could make a dent in the population I would be impressed. When I was a teenager (pre-911) we would fish right off the dam, I remember on several occasions the DWR officer telling us to kill all the crappie we caught even if we weren't keeping them. That lake has in the neighborhood of 125 miles of shoreline, only a few(<10) are accessible without considerable effort and some fun 4 wheel drive action or a boat.

FYI mercury warning because of upstream mining for years. If someone is really selling these fish in a restaurant I wonder if they are posting the mercury warning.[crazy][crazy][sly]
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