I'm still waiting to see if the Walleye size limit is making a difference. Only thing I see from my take is it is much harder to get a limit of 16in fish compared to 14 in fish. Number of Fish are not growing nor is the over all size.
While your at it lets call for a ban on all use of bait. Bare hook only. That should help.
I'm still waiting to see if the Walleye size limit is making a difference. Only thing I see from my take is it is much harder to get a limit of 16in fish compared to 14 in fish. Number of Fish are not growing nor is the over all size. I'll give it another couple years before deciding if the size change helped or just made harvest numbers go down. For me 25 gils a day are a plenty but I too don't agree with any limit/possession change but having a few experimental trophy lakes might over time change my mind.
Can't be much of a fillet on a 14 inch walleye can there? Way back in the summer of 77' I was doing a creel survey on Sylvan Lake while studying fisheries in college. There was no size limit on walleye then. I swear on a bible there were people keeping walleyes not much bigger than cigars! They put them I their fish baskets with the crappies!
Even better yet, no hook, just a line for you Probably don't like it when someone wants to control what you do.
I really don't know where I stand on this. What's the difference of a guy who fishes 5 days a week and keeps 25 every day or the guy that can only get out on a Saturday and keeps 125? The only difference with a bag limit is the first guy would be legal.
So now we are talking about keeping the blue gill from going extinct? Didn't know we were that close but thanks for opening my eyes. I will pay closer attention to the count next time Im out. Its all about control.