01-04-2017, 03:22 PM
Yup, crappie are more fragile. On a trip to P'View this fall, kentofnsl and I used a descender of his to return crappie to the depths. But some of them popped back up after a few minutes, to become gull food. Invariably, they'd surface 50 feet or so from the boat, and be scarfed up.
It wouldn't surprise me if a few more of them got scarfed by muskie before they got to the surface, as well.
Crappie are prolific, so it probably doesn't hurt the fishery to lose smallish ones to "the bends" but if all you're catching is small ones from the deep, a compassionate angler would move or target a different species.
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It wouldn't surprise me if a few more of them got scarfed by muskie before they got to the surface, as well.
Crappie are prolific, so it probably doesn't hurt the fishery to lose smallish ones to "the bends" but if all you're catching is small ones from the deep, a compassionate angler would move or target a different species.
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