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 Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: Tx Tree Grower]
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08/03/14 06:49 PM
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The 12" to 15" Hybrids we're catching now are from a year and a half ago stocking. TPWD Biologist told me a couple of weeks ago that they've put in over 400,000 fingerlings this year. Several trips this Summer we've just cranked up and moved because all we were catching were the small Hybrids. Wish more folks would do the same, but the bigger issue is that I'd bet 75% of the fishermen are keeping them. See them all the time being kept on the Lake and being cleaned at the cleaning table. Should be really fun in the next 5 years! 
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 Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: hideandseekfish]
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08/10/14 05:42 PM
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The problem with RC is most people that fish it are looking for a limit or a meat haul. You can do a search on this forum for RC and read post after post. Got my limit, took 5 out and they all got a limit, there are hundreds of old post. Hybrid, Sand bass, catfish, and crappie. Then the more recent post go to had a pretty good day with a picture of a pile of undersized fish. I have fished it since it was built and there was a time when it was a trophy fish lake. If we don't police our selves and through the small fish back and manage the number of large fish kept. It will never be good again.
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: StriperAddict]
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08/10/14 07:12 PM
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Striper Addict, I agree with you that you should only keep what you'll eat or give away to someone who will, and throw the remainder back. No need to take a picture of 100 fish every outing! However, I also know that RC is a very underfished lake. I've fished it since 1994 and never really had a bad year. There's been tough spells in the Summer and Winter, but not due to a lack of fish. I've even had a biologist tell me that RC should have different regulations on the White Bass...Higher limits or lower the size restriction so that MORE fish can be taken. Just almost too many in the Lake! I fished six days this past week and saw maybe 20 boats Monday thru Friday, and another 20 on Saturday. This is pretty much the norm all Summer and Fall. No one in the Winter and busier in the Spring. We do have a slot on Blue Cats (Release any between 30" and 45", and keep all below and one above) and it's working as there's Catfish everywhere after the eighth year of the slot. I'm betting this get expanded state wide after the 10 year study ends in 2016, and the results are posted. RC is a tough lake to fish for Weekenders except in the Spring and Fall when the main problem is limiting out too early in a trip. If the fish aren't schooling in the Summer, folks think the lake is fished out, and Winter (My favorite time is November thru January) I rarely see a boat on the Lake. Been thinking for 20 years that folks will discover our "Well Kept Secret" but seems the boat traffic gets less as gas prices go up, lake levels go down, and more folks get intimidated by our 45,000 acre bit of paradise! Good Luck and Good Fishin'! Check out the post on our website I just did today. www.gonefishin.biz
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: hideandseekfish]
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08/10/14 08:03 PM
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Royce, we will just have to agree to disagree , and the biologists that told you that is off his rocker. I used to catch quite a few slot fish every trip. Don't have that problem any more. Everything is smaller and there are fewer of them. If you have been fishing RC since 1994 you know that. I did not say there were to many boats. I said to many meat hunters. It is true that the lake is 44,000 acres when full but it has not been full in years and less than half the lake is over 15 ' . Thanks
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: StriperAddict]
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08/10/14 08:46 PM
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Striper Addict, No problem with disagreeing as you may be on target. I have fished RC over 250 trips a year for the past ten years and rarely been disappointed. It's tough right now, but not due to a lack of fish. Just a month or so ago, our major problem In the Guide Business was limiting out on BIG Sandies way too early in a Guide Trip. The fish are still there, but just hard to pattern. Happens to all Lakes and folks start talking about them being fished out. As far as the Catfish, fished them November thru March this past year as the COLD Winter made the Sandies too hard to find. We caught and cleaned and released more Blues and Channels than most folks will catch in a lifetime. RC is still one of the BEST lakes I've fished in Texas. I'd rank it below Tawakoni, on par with Cedar Creek and above all others in regard to Sandies and Catfish. And best of all, most days you have a 45,000 acre lake to yourself! Good Luck and Good Fishin'!
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: hideandseekfish]
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08/10/14 09:16 PM
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No doubt the last few years the numbers of BIG hybrids has been down. Some years went by when state budget and hatchery issues cause either no stocking or reduced numbers in the stocking. This made for some slow hybrid fishing the past few years.I think you will see that change starting next year. The numbers of small hybrids in RC is amazing right now. Those guys will be legal next summer and it will be a blast.
We have been strictly catfishing the last 3 weeks or so. I will admit it's been hard to find the 5 lb + cats, but I can assure you they are in there. We spend all winter fishing for big blues on RC. We caught and released at least 20 blues last winter that were over 40 lbs. I firmly believe that RC has some of the best catfish size and numbers as any lake in the state of Texas. It simply doesn't get the pressure or publicity like Tawok or Texoma.
I very rarely target white bass but I catch a ton of them in the spring and fall. I have not noticed a difference in size or numbers this year. I have noticed a significant reduction in schooling action this yr but I believe that is more weather related.
I do wish there was a way to reduce the bag limit on hybrids during times of reduced stocking. I believe it would help make a limited resource last longer. It would also increase the number of true trophy hybrids caught.
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: hideandseekfish]
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08/10/14 09:38 PM
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Guy's I am not saying RC is done for. I realize you use this forum to advertise and book trips and it is not in your best business interest to say it has changed. It is still a good lake. If you polled the local fishermen that fish it for recreation once a week like me,and ask if it is as good as it was. The consensus would be no. Weather it is due to over harvest or just the age of the lake. All I am saying is we all need to stop focusing so much on quantity (limits) and focus on quality. Thanks
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: hideandseekfish]
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08/11/14 02:46 PM
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Having concern for the well being of your favorite fishery is never a bad thing. I certainly appreciate the concern. I know guys that haul multiple coolers full of white bass off of RC in the spring. I know for a fact that most of it never gets eaten. That is truely a waste and should never happen. On the flip side I see what has happened to the better LMB fisheries in the state. Fishermen have to hide the fact that they keep a bass to eat for fear of getting yelled at by a tournament fisherman. There is most definately a middle ground somewhere. I'm all for reasonable limits, and limit changes as long as they are based on sound science.
By the way I'm not a guide. Just a weekend warrior.
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: Gone Fishin']
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08/12/14 02:58 AM
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Striper Addict, I agree with you that you should only keep what you'll eat or give away to someone who will, and throw the remainder back. No need to take a picture of 100 fish every outing! However, I also know that RC is a very underfished lake. I've fished it since 1994 and never really had a bad year. There's been tough spells in the Summer and Winter, but not due to a lack of fish. I've even had a biologist tell me that RC should have different regulations on the White Bass...Higher limits or lower the size restriction so that MORE fish can be taken. Just almost too many in the Lake! I fished six days this past week and saw maybe 20 boats Monday thru Friday, and another 20 on Saturday. This is pretty much the norm all Summer and Fall. No one in the Winter and busier in the Spring. We do have a slot on Blue Cats (Release any between 30" and 45", and keep all below and one above) and it's working as there's Catfish everywhere after the eighth year of the slot. I'm betting this get expanded state wide after the 10 year study ends in 2016, and the results are posted. RC is a tough lake to fish for Weekenders except in the Spring and Fall when the main problem is limiting out too early in a trip. If the fish aren't schooling in the Summer, folks think the lake is fished out, and Winter (My favorite time is November thru January) I rarely see a boat on the Lake. Been thinking for 20 years that folks will discover our "Well Kept Secret" but seems the boat traffic gets less as gas prices go up, lake levels go down, and more folks get intimidated by our 45,000 acre bit of paradise! Good Luck and Good Fishin'! Check out the post on our website I just did today. www.gonefishin.biz Nice read !! Shhhhhhh !! Don't let our secret out .. I'm normally on crappie section .. But happen to See this thread and couldn't resist .. You are so totally Right ... I have really done great on crappie this year On RC .. Tore the hybirds up down rigging a while Back too .. 
Last edited by jig master; 08/12/14 03:02 AM.
Don't believe everything you hear and half of what you see . Living for the Thump !!
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: hideandseekfish]
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08/12/14 03:05 AM
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jig master
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Don't forget this !! Love me some RC. !! 
Don't believe everything you hear and half of what you see . Living for the Thump !!
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: hideandseekfish]
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08/12/14 05:58 PM
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I love rc, like all lakes it is up and down, lets not forget the weather we have had this year. Or the amount of warer pumped out.
I enjoy the talk about conserving our fisheries. And practice it i am all for cpr, plus cleaning fish is werk!!!!
But all the talk about how this works or we should do that makes me wonder.
One of our best trophy lakes for any fish and especially lmb is amistad.
Look at that lake over half of it commercially fished with gill nets and it still produces.
Just makes me wonder....
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: StriperAddict]
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08/12/14 10:49 PM
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jig master
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Thanks jig master. My point exactly! What's your point ? Explain to us again .. But before you do .. Let me remind you Of something .. All my fish are legal and there Was 4 of us on the trip of the biguns on front of boat .. Me my dad my brother and nephew caught the crappie Also I pay my taxes and dues On my lot on Richland to fish it year around And I only do really good a few months out of the Year .. I also feed my family with the fish I catch Nothing is wasted . So tell us your point ..
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Don't believe everything you hear and half of what you see . Living for the Thump !!
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: hideandseekfish]
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08/13/14 03:21 AM
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I guess he is trying to say by taking your limit then posting pics you are hurting the fishery. The point i am making is lakes like amistad we follow our rules the mexicans follow theirs and somehow it works out better than any other lake ?????? I dont know but its a thought,
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Re: RC fishin not catchi
[Re: hideandseekfish]
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08/13/14 05:22 AM
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jig master
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I still don't know how me posting a 2
Man limit between 4 on crappie and
A 3 man limit between 4 on hybirds is hurting the fishery ?
Only certain months out of the year your
Going to really get on em on Richland chambers
And I say go get em and post away ..
Let others know how well your doing
Enjoy the moment and share info to others
So they might go catch them a few ..
That's what this forum is for right ?
Last edited by jig master; 08/13/14 05:49 AM.
Don't believe everything you hear and half of what you see . Living for the Thump !!
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