Silver Lake Crayfishing Restrictions? - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Dark_Knight_9C1 · 06-19-2022, 03:58 PM

Here at Silver Lake today. Saw several crayfish traps out already in the morning.
This afternoon I paddled around the lake a little and saw a guy in a power boat zooming around them, picking them up, and moving them. He almost fell out of his boat a couple times so I offered to help him move his traps. Well. He said they weren't his traps and was moving them be cause they were along the shore where the fish were and his daughter lost a fish which rapped around one of the ropes.
He told me they shouldn't be in the fishing holes. He said he saw a DFG boat collecting them all off the lake once.
I'm pretty sure he was just trying to justify what he was doing but I wanted to find out from others on this forum if this is the case.

-Keith

Dark_Knight_9C1 · 06-26-2022, 03:50 PM

Went back to Silver Lake in the middle of the week. Probably the one guy complaining was gone and there were mor than a dozen crayfish traps along the shore there. LOL.
I had caught over 3 dozen quality crayfish at Gull Lake the two nights before.
I also got one 13" brown from Rush Creek so I was able to have Trout for dinner the night before we left.
I had a good bite in a little eddie on the opposite side of the creek the first day we got there. I lost the 4 or so hooks I had to the overhanging branches the first day. I bought more hooks and set up a stinger hook on the end of the night crawler. The next day when I cast in the same spot hooked the brown on the stinger hook after 5 casts. Thank God I learned about stinger hooks from ocean fishing...

- Keith

Dark_Knight_9C1 · 06-26-2022, 04:02 PM

DanaPT · 06-27-2022, 06:30 PM

That's a good fish... when you want to eat use a stinger. When you mess around with trout... single barbless hook does the trick!

I would think you shouldn't leave nets unattended. But moving them is pretty ballsy.

JohnMckroidJr · 06-28-2022, 07:32 AM

Never thought of using a stinger for freshwater. Nice haul of Crawfish, and BrownTrout! Congratulations!!

06-19-2022, 03:58 PM	#1
Dark_Knight_9C1 Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 74	Silver Lake Crayfishing Restrictions? Here at Silver Lake today. Saw several crayfish traps out already in the morning. This afternoon I paddled around the lake a little and saw a guy in a power boat zooming around them, picking them up, and moving them. He almost fell out of his boat a couple times so I offered to help him move his traps. Well. He said they weren't his traps and was moving them be cause they were along the shore where the fish were and his daughter lost a fish which rapped around one of the ropes. He told me they shouldn't be in the fishing holes. He said he saw a DFG boat collecting them all off the lake once. I'm pretty sure he was just trying to justify what he was doing but I wanted to find out from others on this forum if this is the case. -Keith

06-26-2022, 03:50 PM	#2
Dark_Knight_9C1 Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 74	Went back to Silver Lake in the middle of the week. Probably the one guy complaining was gone and there were mor than a dozen crayfish traps along the shore there. LOL. I had caught over 3 dozen quality crayfish at Gull Lake the two nights before. I also got one 13" brown from Rush Creek so I was able to have Trout for dinner the night before we left. I had a good bite in a little eddie on the opposite side of the creek the first day we got there. I lost the 4 or so hooks I had to the overhanging branches the first day. I bought more hooks and set up a stinger hook on the end of the night crawler. The next day when I cast in the same spot hooked the brown on the stinger hook after 5 casts. Thank God I learned about stinger hooks from ocean fishing... - Keith

06-26-2022, 04:02 PM	#3
Dark_Knight_9C1 Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 74

06-27-2022, 06:30 PM	#4
DanaPT Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: South OC Posts: 1,606	That's a good fish... when you want to eat use a stinger. When you mess around with trout... single barbless hook does the trick! I would think you shouldn't leave nets unattended. But moving them is pretty ballsy.

06-28-2022, 07:32 AM	#5
JohnMckroidJr Senior Member Join Date: May 2014 Location: Fort Lauderdale Posts: 1,945	Never thought of using a stinger for freshwater. Nice haul of Crawfish, and BrownTrout! Congratulations!!