DON'T PUT FISH IN YOUR LIVEWELL AT LAKE FORK THEY WILL ALL DIE!!!!!
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- They must have done a bunch of studies at Lake Fork and it seems putting fish in a livewell will kill them. Not all fish, just the ones between 16 and 24 inches. It also seems that there is no other lake that has this problem just Lake Fork. BEWARE!!!!
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I agree Todd. A lot of people with a pierce of paper that think they are smarter than the ones without, have screwed up a lot of things. Sometimes common sense trumps that piece of paper. Great insight from someone who more than likely has more hours actually seeing and experiencing actual fish behavior and lake conditions, rather than someone that read it in a book. 👍🏼
I love it when these comments get you fired up Todd, the sarcasm is hilarious…. Fish will die instantly if they get put in a live well!!!!😂😂😂
The sarcasm is strong with this one 😂
You hit the nail on the head, with your Lake Conroe comment.
Great video. Felt that way about slot for a long time. Nice to see somebody put out the info.....
Reminds me of Tx rack size limits on white tail deer in pretty much every county. If we can only shoot the bucks with big racks and must let all the giant deer with basket racks walk on by, it makes no sense. All those basket rack deer breed and pass on the same basket rack genes. If they wanted Texas to have a large number of big rack bucks, we should be culling out the basket racks, not letting them breed like crazy and live a full natural life. I have asked multiple game wardens about it. None had an answer.
I'm not gonna lie some of the comments on these lake Fork videos are comedy gold... LOL I 100% agree though it's kind of crazy how some people's brains work or I guess don't work when it comes to these topics. Great video as always keepem coming brother!!!
Great video. I agree 💯 with your assessment
You have a good point here.
100% agree about the slot. Ive been fishing Rayburn most all my life. The only time that lake changes is because of mother nature.
Fisheries in Texas is all about how lakes are managed. Great video and keep em coming!
Totally agree
Good video dude
This great you are fired up. I think the slot for a few years on a new lake is good. But on a well established lake, I don’t think you need it. I feel your pain. Trying to explain to a couple of my friends why Fork don’t need a slot, might as well try to explain to a fish. Great video Todd.
That was some awesome fishing. You were on them, in your face fishing. Who wouldn't want to do that. Badass.
You are so hilarious. And some people are just idiots. You crack me up. Keep on keeping on. You’re the best
Amen brother !
Todd bringing it today!!
A while back on Fork i had an over in the livewell and i caught a 2nd over and took a pic of them together and released em. In the post i put the location. Holy crap, the dm’s blew up. All negative 😂
Same here, a buddy and I had 2 overs in the well and caught an over and we got our chops busted. All fish were released but be got some backlash even though all fish were released. It was a hell of a picture though!
In Washington state we have to put a hi vis green neoprene band around our engine cowl that shows we are in a tournament and allows us to keep slot fish
See I like that
In Florida we get permits to keep slot fish.
I was there last year, and let me tell you, I hung a bass over the side of my kayak on lip grips. It immediately went belly up before I could get my measuring board ready, one less 4 pounder. 😢 *Also, selling beachfront property in Death Valley, PM for details.
I live and fish on Fork everyday and taking my clients out crappie fishing it never fails that someone catches a big bass. Instantly they want to put it the box and go to the minnow Bucket marina and weigh it and measure it. I never let them handle the big bass to much and out of all the big bass I've had in my boat probably 3 were big enough to take to the bank.
Todd is becoming to tournament bass fishing what Chael Sonnen currently is to mma and I'm here for it!
Lmao love it CLASSIC!!!!!
Great, now i have to go back and read the comments on yesterday’s vid😂
Went back and looked at all the negatives. Same same. 😂
Havnt even watched the video yet. Just saw the title and I’m cracking up. 😂
Don't waste your time, it's fetal alcohol syndrome on full display.
Here in Az we had a slot on one of our main tournament lakes for years. The 1.75-2 pound fish were in abundance. Thirty years later and the water level of the same lake has been between 105% to 85% and brush being as deep as 35ft. The lake is exploding with larger fish now and it takes mis 20's to win a one day. The key is cover be it think brush or vegetation and water fertility to better fishing in a lake.
Exactly , it’s way more about habitat than slot
the answer is stocking regularity results in big fish. follow the stocking reports and you can see where the "big bass" factory will be next. there's a direct correlation to the frequency of stocking and big bass caught. Lake Fork gets special treatment and is stocked in a STUPID way. The slot is not growing them, the sheer number of fish put in that lake is what's driving that.
If I lived by Toledo and Rayburn I wouldn’t fish Fork either!
I've always said, "you can go to fork. I'll be at Palestine". Too many really good lakes to focus on one lake
Some guys will remember how good Cooper was back in the 90s before the drought years. It was a 18” minimum.
I never understood and still don’t the reason behind the slot. Its really stupid in my mind.
LOP - water level fluctuates every year- It's never the same lake - and if you don't catch 25+ you don't get a check.
If livewells and tournaments could hurt a lake or were killing fish at the rate people claim...Rayburn wouldnt even have a single bass in it. People are too emotional😂
agree
Fork is my fun fishing so that is the only reason I like slot cause if there was no slot Fork would get hammered worse than already does. There are coves in Rayburn and Toledo bigger than fork, however I agree the slot has not made a difference in giants lately but they killed the grass which used to be all over the lake screwed it up! There are lots of guides on that lake and if there were rayburn size tournaments every weekend that would kill there business. You are right I sometimes like slot on smaller lakes just for fun fishing as my tournament days are behind me.
So strange to hear it’s like that in Texas with all the state investment! Here in SC our lakes have been ruined by Spotted bass & Herring.
However- if you add Herring and take away spotted bass you get Lake Murray.
Regardless we also have hundreds of tournaments a year on Murray, Heartwell, Santee, Russell & Keowee. When the best lake is Jocasse with 8+lb smallmouth, 8+lb spots & 10+ largemouth. It’s just a deep water fishery.
Sometimes I think cattle farmers would make better fisheries managers than biologists. Most anglers don't understand "carrying capacity". They sure don't understand "slot" limits. Slot limits are very similar to antler restrictions on whitetail. Counter-intuitive imo.
Some people just don’t get it, just like anything else our lakes need some management but sometimes it goes too far.
On another thought when are you releasing a video on the NBT?
@8:26 Todd is sounding like Bubba from Forrest Gump, you got your Toledo Bend bass, you got your Sam Rayburn bass, you got your O.H. Ivie bass, you got your Falcon bass, you got your Amistad bass, you got your Choke Canyon bass, you got your JB Thomas bass...
@8:57 I am like why isn't he saying Ray Roberts :( oh wait there it is :)
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Totally agreed. I have a very hard time believing a slot limit rule on tournaments makes a big difference for overall lake quality. Maybe for the catch and keep crowd, but not tournaments.
Honestly, with the slot limit at Fork I truly don't understand why it is still a popular tournament lake. It sucks fishing to align with regulations rather than trying to catch your biggest 5.
Why wouldn't they try a few years with regular limits during permitted tournaments and see if it makes any kind of difference?
Already been done at Lake Fork. Google it.
No problem, ice chest it is. 👍
Todd, dont believe your lying eyes and ears and do what you are told and believe what they tell us.
You know what else helps not having golden algae in your lakes
Man that hurt it back in the day. Also the decline of the dairy farms killed the nutrient runoff it used to get. I miss the grass from the 80s and 90s.
We have a slot lake in NC, sherron Harris, my suggestion was u get a card saying u in tournament n u release after weight in. Y is that not ok for slot lakes
Can I eat them after? Thinking blackened on a half shell. Im tired of fried nuggets
I bet if you squirt a bass on a bed with your water gun, then put it in the livewell, it’ll die twice! 🔫 😂
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My opinion today is only time will tell….. I’m in Missouri so hopefully it all works out for are kids and there kids. I’m just a weekend warrior at best.
Todd, it sounds like you all need to get together and plant a bunch of trees. Because apparently there are not enough in Texas to hug.. Here in East TN I believe that the biggest issue to bass population and growth is the constant spraying of grass, the fact that TVA will raise the lakes in the spring then drop the bottom out of them as the bass move into spawn and idiots that will catch more than their limit and non-legal fish. But that is just my thoughts as I am not a biologist.
Bruh! Please don't block these fools. Watching TC go off on these people is hysterical! Like watching old comedians like George Carlin and Gallagher spit out common sense! LOLOL
I don't😂
I have been fishing Fork since before it opened. I will say it loud enough for those in the back to hear, LAKE FORK NOW SUCKS!!
I live 65 miles away and I rarely go anymore to Fork. It was great 1980-late 90's.. Since then there have been some "runs" of really good fishing, but overall, LAKE FORK SUCKS!!!
I believe you and it’s because of other factors not the slot. I’m tired of fishermen blaming other fishermen as to why lakes aren’t as good. It’s always time or Mother Nature. 👍👍👍
@@toddcastledinefishing5924 it's almost like the timing of the explosion of the development at Fork coincides with the decline in fishing. There is less than 1/2 of the undeveloped shoreline there was back in the day. Plus lake got old, dairy farms used to provide nutrients in run off and they are all but gone.
The slot should have went away a long time ago, I do not think its the end all to be all or the reason that Fork has some decent fishing. It's now a trophy crappie lake.
Yes this is something very few talk about. The run off from the dairy farms. Grass was so thick back in the day you could walk across it.
You forgot about one awesome lake that’s in your back yard.
You've made my day!
Oklahoma geniuses changed regs two years ago that only allows you to keep 1 bass over 16” daily, but they allow a tournament exemption to let us still have tournaments with plus 16” fish and participants have to have a photo or copy of exemption if stopped and checked.
We’ve fished tournaments like this and the past and it seems reasonable
We had a lake that we would occasionally put on our club schedule back in the 90's that was considered a bass management lake. It had a 15" limit as apposed to 12" that was the norm for the majority of lakes/ponds in the Northeast... Place ended up having a great population of fish up to 14 7/8"....🤣🤣
We stopped going there because everyone would catch a bunch of fish but maybe 5 out of 15-20 boats would have fish to weigh in....SMH...
Catch and Release!!! Skip the GREASE!
Vegetation...structure....water levels...forage...fish care are far more important than size and slot limits...
Yes yes yea👍👍👍
We had a 16” limit on Millwood for years and the fish would stack up at 15&7/8 🤷🏻♂️
Slot limit lakes are great for us kayak anglers
Todd. You should try using a little sarcasm in your videos. Lol
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GOD BLESS YOU!!! PUT THAT TRUTH ON BLAST👊🏻🤙🏻 people just don't wanna hear it. Too damn bad. Thanks for speaking the truth!
Todd you have a right to be mad. Or upset 😡. But I like the rule to only keep fish under 16 inches. But I think you would have been happier if that slot was keep 1 over 19 inches instead of 24. I'm in Florida and that's our slot and I believe it's a great rule. Let's more mommas have them babies. Maybe Fork needs to consider changing that 24 inches to 20 or 21!. What do you think?
Fork’s slot used to be 14-21
Hey Todd, I agree with you 100% about the slot. lol those people have their heads up their as,ses.
I fished there in ‘23 on the way home the guys I was fishing with asked , What would I do if I won the lottery? I responded, I would buy a dump truck….. Then I was asked why in the world would you buy a dump truck? “To fill in the Great Lake Fork!
This is funny but kinda silly… it definitely helps to release the fish that we know has the genetics to make more giants. That’s one of my complaints about about slots in general. Do fish stop reproducing after they grow out of the slot? Are we trying to just grow them to 3 pounds? The overs are the ones I want most protected. Another thing… Certain times of the year we know mortality is higher. So we probably shouldn’t put them in the live well then. Other times it doesn’t matter so much at. Instead of focusing efforts on those times, we create year long slots? You can hurt a good lake. We’ve all see it happen. But you’re right.. some of the these claims don’t make much sense. Fork’s slot seems too aggressive. Immediately release giants during the spawn, don’t yank them out of deep water and put them in the live well in the hottest part of the year, and clean your live wells… if those things weren’t let becomes basically bacteria farms, then delayed mortality wouldn’t be such a concern either. But it’s all about the slot? Just promoting those kinds of common sense things would probably do more for our fisheries than heavy handed slot limits ever could, but it is what it is. You have die hard believers in slots no matter what.
Texoma used to be like that at loes 18:57
You are having way too much fun with this Clickbait… Going to give some of these fools a stroke 😂
Most lakes cycle. For a few years mother nature makes the lake a good temp, the right height, have good spawns. Which equates to awesome fishing 2-3 years later. Produces monsters and lots of them. Then bad years happen and it changes for the worst. Let nature do her thing and keep human hands out of it. Nature doesn't put chemicals in to kill things. We do that because we think we know better. Leave things alone
Why not do like Oklahoma when you are just out fun fishing or catching a few eaters you can only be in possession of 1 fish over 16”. For tournaments you have to a tournament exception permit from the state saying you have permission to have more than 1 fish over 16 and the state is encouraging keeping 12-13 inchers and I do that almost every time I go out my father in law loves fried fish and I enjoy catching them and our lakes are getting better
Todd
Has your opinion of bass fisherman changed since you began doing videos?
Yes very much so 😂😂😂
Kinda figured that!😂
That would be a great video haha
I’ll add that the quality of the fishery at Fork for 16-26 inch fish far exceeds that of Rayburn or Toledo. Easy to prove just look at the angler catch rate of those sized fish at the three fisheries. TPWD has that data.
You are making broad generalizations without anything to back it up. Get the data. It’s all available.
1st viewer FTW
Wow. If you only knew this was a slot lake before paying your entry fees😂😂😂.
I had know idea I've never really heard if it before. I wonder if I could have still made the championship and made a top 10 without fishing it. I guess will never know, either way it was fun making this video I see you enjoyed it.
You knew that nerve was going to be hit !
Don't tase me bro...
Just because I live at Fork...😢😂
I don’t 😂😂😂
I thought slots got put on lakes because something bad happened?
He Dang sure sounds reasonable to me !
Slot limits don't work, period. The only way it could possibly work is if people kelp the unders. Even then, I doubt it would do anything. With a slot limit, the goal is for people to harvest the unders to help the slot fish thrive, but hardly anyone keeps bass, so it's pointless.
this is true for intensive management they would need to mandate culling of the unders but then they would have to actively change regs each year because that would actually be effective
Yeah I remember years ago after a krill survey they were saying how anglers needed to start keeping some unders. Of course no one ever really does.
@@Basscater81 tbh it’s almost inconvenient to keep fish
❤ Rayburn has always been better than Fork
Makin friends is your business..if they were upset before this video they will burn you livewells after this.
Todd it's asinine Castledine! Dude makes perfect sense! Slot lakes are broke fish back capitals that's it!
All the people commenting in the last video… I can’t seem to locate them in the comment section of this video.
They don't like being in the minority
😂Sweeeet
Omg please just the facts not opinions!!! Woohoo .. also common sense is not common and I love your subtle remarks
You are comparing fork to Sam Rayburn, fork is 27,000, Rayburn is 114,000 acre. Fork is one third the size and gets all that pressure. Plus SRA killed all the grass.
Exactly my point, killing the grass has an impact 100x greater than the slot. Most lakes suffer from much larger things than tournaments or slots or fishermen. Yet other fishermen always want to blame fishermen as to why lakes aren’t good. Fishermen are rarely the reason
😂😂😂😂 some people are just idiots TAD…..
I've always hated the slot limits at lakes. Glad most of the lakes I fish have done away with them.
I love the butt hurt people of this world . Regeratation of what they heard !!! Love the videos sir and keep hurting feeling we love it !!!
Have you talked to anyone who can actually do something or just bitching on RUclips? If you actually talk to the people who make these decisions you might understand why.
Oh I know why they do it, they just can't say it publicly.
Bro you want to adress some serious stupidity, give an actual opinion on Zaldains last post. Would love to see if you are going to ride the fence or take an actual side about what he did.
TC for Texas Tournament Director!
Sad part even after this video the dumb comments will still come
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hahahahahahahahaah
I love it when you get condescending. I know why you're doing it. Logic is Logic. Some people just won't see anything else than they're opinions. They look at things with blinders on. They almost sound like bidenomics lol
clickbait. Fork should be catch and release only. No tournaments allowed.
Why?
Here's my problem with your thinking Todd. You're just making wayyyy too much sense. Don't you know that you're not allowed to make sense anymore. Dude, get with the program!😁
Share a Lunkers are so few at Fork in my opinion is there are to many 3-4 pounders and the growth of giants is stunted.
I'm glad there are Fisheries biologists that know what they're doing. Armchair drunks don't cut it.
Well I am 3 year sober recovering alcoholic so your comment doesnt apply. I guess if being a non man card holding karen requires you to make a negative comment on mine when it was clear of it being my opinion makes your day better then by all means have a great day.
You might want to check in with your sponsor because Todd needs some help. Maybe you can point out the way. @@jasonwalden271
Why do you always sound like your half drunk?
Why don't you have anything good to say, and are always that guy that no-one invites to parties.
#$@% their feelings. You know that common sense thing only applys to people who think before they speak.
" I love you man" Hey maybe one these biologist ...never mind time on the water I'll go with you on this one.
Man I bet your wife's pissed...lol just let it go Todd.
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