“Climate change has also been brought up as another factor possibly impacting walleyes. “
Of course. Is there ANYTHING that can’t be blamed on globull warming?
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I remember a while back there was some disease that was affecting Walleye in the Midwest. CT get’s there walleye fingerlings from the Midwest for stocking and they stopped one year because of it.
I had a charter captain in Ashtabula, OH tell me they were worried about the water becoming too clear for walleye due to the zebra mussel. Don’t know if that is true or not.
Do they have Zebra Mussels up there, like we do in Lake Erie?
Nothing to do with climate.
It is due to the over-fishing by Indian tribes and there spitting in the face of sportsmen by throwing dead walleyes up on the shore to waste.
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Wisconsin lawmaker rips tribes’ spearfishing goals
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press
Posted: 03/19/2014 10:31:21 AM CDT | Updated: about a year ago
MADISON, Wis.—Wisconsin’s Chippewa bands want to spear too many walleyes again this spring and risk re-igniting tensions if state officials adopt tight bag limits for non-tribal anglers, the state Assembly’s tourism chairman warned Thursday.
The tribes have declared they want to harvest a record 63,488 walleye across northern Wisconsin this spring. The declaration comes after the state Department of Natural Resources imposed strict bag limits to compensate for last year’s tribal goals and protect the walleye fishery. This year’s declaration could push the agency to adopt even tighter restrictions on non-tribal fishermen.
Rep. Dean Kaufert, R-Neenah, chairman of the Assembly’s tourism committee, was so incensed last year that he threatened to rescind a state grant for one Chippewa tribe. He said Thursday that the tribes are being too aggressive again this year, and he’s already hearing complaints from constituents.
“Unfortunately the tribes don’t do themselves any (public relations) favors when they do this,” Kaufert said. “(The record declaration) catches people’s attention and they’re not pleased about it ... when you severely limit the ability of these folks to have a decent catch, it may impact the tourism.”
http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_25375405/wisconsin-chippewa-want-spear-63k-walleye
There used to be 2 varieties of walleye in the Great Lakes, yellow and blue. The blue were fished to near extinction by the trawling nets of the native fishermen. They almost took out the yellows too. This had nothing to do with sports fishing. It was commercial fishing with massive nets.
Water clarity has had nothing to do with walleye population declines, it was uncontrolled commercial fishing.
Birth control, from humans.
Somebody has to post a picture of Jon Cryer in “Hot Shots” suffering from Walleye.
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Perhaps the problem is an increase in the Muskie population
BS; the fish simply tastes scrumptious and more people know it now.
It could be all the female chemicals in the water due to wide use of birth-control pills.
I think I miss the Yellow Perch most of all. Man, did we catch a lot of them when I was a kid. We had a Fish Fry every weekend, summer and winter - they were more delicious and more hard won through the ice!
My Grandparents had a place on Big Silver Lake at Wautoma. I was Blessed to be a kid with a lake in her life. :)
Then there is this:
It was posted here a few days ago I think.
For something on zebra mussels go to 36:20 of this youtube video;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWeYa0_5bc
Silt brings nutrients into the waters - walleye, like other fish, ultimately depend on the flora and the flora depend on nutrients.
Be careful with the stats. When I lived in Seattle, the econazis closed down all steelhead fishing in all the waters from the Cascades westward. This because they claimed the numbers were so low.
But they were only counting the “native” fish in the saltwater. As if there is some great nobility to native vs. stocked.
If they’d tallied those that had been stocked, the numbers were fine.
They just wanted to exercise their power.
I say now what I said then: “Second generation IS native.” You stock them one year, they spawn the next and those critters are as native as fish in those waters 150 years ago.