{"podcast":{"title":"Brilliant Fishing NC","slug":"brilliant-fishing-nc-7090102","podcast_index_feed_id":7090102,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/brilliantfishingnc/feed.xml","website_url":"https://brilliantfishingnc.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18170699/small_4vbebv.jpg","author":"brilliantfishingnc","episode_count":26,"summary":"Family-friendly podcast where we pick the brains of those who are ’in-the-know’ about fishing North Carolina’s lakes, rivers and beaches.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T20:21:25.529980+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/brilliant-fishing-nc-7090102"},"episode":{"title":"Crappie Biology with NCWRC's District 6 Biologist Troy Thompson","slug":"crappie-biology-with-ncwrc-s-district-6-biologist-troy-thompson","published_at":"2024-10-11T10:58:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/brilliant-fishing-nc-7090102/crappie-biology-with-ncwrc-s-district-6-biologist-troy-thompson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/brilliant-fishing-nc-7090102","url":"https://brilliantfishingnc.podbean.com/e/crappie-biology-with-ncwrcs-district-6-biologist-troy-thompson/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/r2v4uh2evamg6zbp/BFNC_podcast8ayyq.mp3","summary":"One of NCWRC's district 6 biologists, Troy Thompson, talks to us about the current health/status of (mostly black) crappie in the Yadkin & Catawba chains of lakes in the NC Piedmont. We discuss: - aging fish - stunted populations - which lakes have higher/lesser recruitment - what causes some lakes to have larger/smaller fish - the effect of the removal of the size & creel limits on the Yadkin lakes For more answers, feel free to reach out to Troy: Troy Thompson // District 6 Fisheries Biologist I Division of Inland Fisheries NC Wildlife Resources Commission 1721 Mail Service Center Raleigh NC 27699-1700 office (primary): 910-439-2006 mobile: 704-465-4864 troy.thompson@ncwildlife.org","meta_description":"One of NCWRC's district 6 biologists, Troy Thompson, talks to us about the current health/status of (mostly black) crappie in the Yadkin & Catawba cha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2742,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/brilliant-fishing-nc-7090102/episodes/crappie-biology-with-ncwrc-s-district-6-biologist-troy-thompson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/brilliant-fishing-nc-7090102/crappie-biology-with-ncwrc-s-district-6-biologist-troy-thompson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}