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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Oct 10, 2011 21:21:52 GMT -5
Yes walleye planting have ruined many a good fishing lakes. But they will continue to do it because they are a money fish. I know within 10 years they ruined our lake by planting them. long lake in Hale. Used to be a great all around fishery. Now it's just walleye and cats. The problem is the fry grow so much faster than everything else, and they grow up eating all the young pike, bass, pannies and whatever else is around. I agree keep them in the big water.
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Post by SPLASH on Oct 10, 2011 21:27:13 GMT -5
It makes sense to me why they cut down on planting eyes in Hamlin. When they first started it on a big level there were still quite a few tiger musky in there. Well, after planting millions of tiny eyes and the tigers dying off of old age it turned into a walleye lake and you had to work to get into crappie when before crappie was the top fish in the lake. Now they cut the walleye plants back and plant musky. No walleye plants in the last 5 years and only musky leads me to believe they are trying to get the panfish population back up. Still surprised there aren't more eyes in there than it sounds.
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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Oct 10, 2011 21:30:29 GMT -5
There probably is, but walleye in inland lakes can be very tricky. They tend to move around alot more looking for food than they do in the big water. If you think about places like the Bay, the bottom is just a big flat surface. Any little contour or structure out there will congregate everything around including baitfish. in the inland lakes everything moves and wanders.
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Post by ScoutB on Oct 10, 2011 21:31:41 GMT -5
We saw that stocking report too but decided to go anyway. It seems like there should have been some good fish left.
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Post by SPLASH on Oct 10, 2011 21:41:19 GMT -5
There probably is, but walleye in inland lakes can be very tricky. They tend to move around alot more looking for food than they do in the big water. If you think about places like the Bay, the bottom is just a big flat surface. Any little contour or structure out there will congregate everything around including baitfish. in the inland lakes everything moves and wanders. I personally have caught more eyes out of Hamlin than all other lakes combined including the bay a few summers ago when Brad and I got limits everytime out but once. Not hard to catch eyes there. Everyone in the park Grandpa stayed in caught eyes with no problem. Not like the inland lakes around here where they can be hard to find. A lot more like the bay when it comes to that. Just that one ramp in that park would get over a hundred boats atleast every Saturday launching. There are many more ramps than just that one. I think it got fished out with no stocking in 5 years. |
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Post by ScoutB on Oct 11, 2011 22:32:02 GMT -5
One of the locals told me that they stopped planting due to VHS, but they did finally plant again this year. Might be good again in a few years.
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Post by SPLASH on Oct 11, 2011 22:33:30 GMT -5
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