Since the daily limit is 6 that is the most expensive meal / bait you can have . Depending on how judge feels that’s about $ 2275 plate you got there

Way to go, we have filled a few ponds with crappie. If they have proper food source they grow like crazy. We filled a guys pond who went and bought shiners two or 3 times a year and those fish grew like crazy compared to the ponds they guys didn't do anything with.

No limit in private ponds.

Nice catch! I’d try something like that and have a GBH in my trap…or a turtle, lol!

Good job catching the fish-eater!

Wait, his own private pond and he’s regulated on how many fish he can catch? Haha, man you of all people should understand management. We have ponds we’ll go take 30+ at times for management. He kept the perfect size. Don’t think a GW is gonna come out to someone’s private property to write someone a ticket for catching fish they put in their own pond.

Private pond he owns/stocked himself. I don't think he has any problems.

Lucky for him. In KY you have to get s special permit to remove smaller or more than the limit. Log size and get a biologist to sign off on it.

To achieve a balanced fishery it is generally safe to begin by removing 25 small bass per surface acre. The statewide minimum size limit for largemouth bass in Kentucky is 12 inches. Therefore, you will need a Fisheries Management Permit issued by KDFWR to keep bass less than 12 inches. You can get one of these permits by contacting your local Fisheries Biologist (Find your local contact). If bass crowding is extensive it may be necessary to remove more than 25 fish per acre. A general guideline is to remove small bass until you do not catch a fish on almost every cast. Small bass should not be transported live off of the property from which they came. Transporting fish from one pond to another can transmit parasites and disease or affect the fish population in the new stocking location. Keeping a catch/harvest log is a great way to track the success of your bass removal. If you are harvesting enough small bass you should gradually start seeing some larger bass in your catch log over time.

Not sure about MO regs But don't think a farm pond is exempt from STATE WIDE ALL impoundments. That's what Mo regs state. But ponds Might have a an exemption. Just like people think Game wardens can't come on your land to enforce game laws. Let a game warden find out he is using them to bait traps and see if one comes out on his "private" land ....

The fish species listed below may be pursued and taken by pole and line, trotline, throwline, limb line, bank line, and
jug line. Paddlefish may be taken by snagging and grabbing. Game fish are defined on Page 11. Seasons and limits
apply statewide unless the body of water has special regulations as listed on pages 24–35 or if the area is posted with
special regulations.
Species Open Season
Daily
Limit Length Limit
Black bass (largemouth,
smallmouth, spotted/
Kentucky)
From impoundments All year 6
From most streams south of
the Missouri River2
May 27, 2023–
Other streams and impoundments
All year 1 Applies on all waters, with the exception of those with more specific
regulations found on pages 24–35 and on areas that are posted with special
regulations.
2 Black bass fishing and possession is open year-round on the Mississippi
River, all waters north of the south bank of the Missouri River, the St. Francis
River downstream from Wappapello Dam, and on streams in that portion of
southeast Missouri bounded by a line from Cape Girardeau following Missouri
highways 74 and 25, U.S. highways 60, 67, and 160, and the west bank of the
Little Black River to the Arkansas state line. In the rest of the state, black bass
from streams may not be possessed from March 1–May 26, 2023. Only catchand-
release fishing for black bass is allowed during this time in this area of the
state.
3
https://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/2023FishingRegs.pdf

Farm ponds you don't have size or limit

Not sure baiting though, with fishing has to be a non game fish.

nice fish and nice otter,your doing it right,keep your traps working as otters like to travel in pairs. merry christmas.

You're supposed to get a permit to keep smaller bass from your own pond? That's nuts.

Ky is nuts if that's true. Here size limits only apply to public waters.

Bass around these farm pond take it over quick and get to about 12 inches and stop growing because they are over populated. I know of a few guys that competition coon hunt and have feeders out so the can keep coon coming, and these ponds get fished to be thinned out, and feeders get filled with bass. The neighbors pond is like that, the last time I took the kids fishing ty told me to fill a Jon boat full because he needed some thinned out. So that's what we did, skint and cooked those. But I rather see it go to bait in my opinion to help manage other critters then just thrown on the bank to feed them.

If you farm is over populated with deer same thing . Got to get a permit to exceed the bag limit

Aren't you one who didn't like the response people gave you when you posted pictures of you fishing tournaments and people made statements referring to disability fraud. Or some such thing. I remember that people talking out of their butt not knowing the situation got under your skin. Yet here your doing the exact same thing act like he is doing something wrong when he is not. Just a little outside prospective.

I know I don't like the I know better then you response I get from the jack legs on what I should and should not let my boys do either. But I get that here from folks that don't know me my kids or our situation.

Dang Nessy, I thought we was friends! Looks like I need to, once again, seek out a better class of drinking buddies (no offense of course).
I'd much rather eat a mess of 1 1/2 to 2 # bass than a mushy, flavourless mess of crappie.
I guess you need to partake in a proper fish dinner below the Mason-Dixon line to show you where the truth lies.

Bass or any other game fish is allowed as trapping bait in Mo. No use of game fish for bait is only for fish bait. Private waters have no limits on number or size of fish kept,in Mo.

"Since the daily limit is 6 that is the most expensive meal / bait you can have . Depending on how judge feels that’s about $ 2275 plate you got there"

Calm down J. The OP might be an SEC fan for all you know.