11-06-2018, 03:23 PM
[quote TubeDude]
[#0000FF][b]Sorry DWR folks. The fact that you get a few in the nets does not translate into an abundant fishery for anglerkind. In the renowned walleye waters of the midwest there is usually an aggressive annual stocking program and abundant forage species for year round feeding. This produces hundreds of fish for every angler...so if even just a small percentage take your bait or lure you still do well. In Willard there are relatively few fish...[/quote]
Hmmm...so what you are saying is done in the midwest is that they take their aquariums (fisheries) stack them full of fish and then manually feed them to keep their artificially inflated numbers high enough to maintain an abundant healthy fishery.
Geez, I am glad we don't waste money doing that!
On a different note, though, I wondered about the walleye population when I read this thread for the simple fact that so many complain about the harvest and fishing in the inlet each year. I thought it would be interesting to see what the DWR's netting showed...and, it was. I have read several reports saying that fishing for walleye has been tough this year and many wondered if walleye numbers are low. You seem to think they are still low despite these trend netting results. I wonder if the population is higher than you think and fishing has been tough because resident fish have a good food supply at the moment and are just difficult to catch. I wonder this because of what I see in other waters with other fish.
Walleye are known to be tougher to catch and particularly finicky fish. What kind of food supply do they have now? Is it abundant compared to other years or different? Is the DWR still stocking tiny wiper fry to supplement the wiper population, or are they stocking larger fry? Could this be a reason that walleye have been tough to catch--lots of little wipers to munch on?
Anyway, just a couple thoughts...
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[#0000FF][b]Sorry DWR folks. The fact that you get a few in the nets does not translate into an abundant fishery for anglerkind. In the renowned walleye waters of the midwest there is usually an aggressive annual stocking program and abundant forage species for year round feeding. This produces hundreds of fish for every angler...so if even just a small percentage take your bait or lure you still do well. In Willard there are relatively few fish...[/quote]
Hmmm...so what you are saying is done in the midwest is that they take their aquariums (fisheries) stack them full of fish and then manually feed them to keep their artificially inflated numbers high enough to maintain an abundant healthy fishery.
Geez, I am glad we don't waste money doing that!
On a different note, though, I wondered about the walleye population when I read this thread for the simple fact that so many complain about the harvest and fishing in the inlet each year. I thought it would be interesting to see what the DWR's netting showed...and, it was. I have read several reports saying that fishing for walleye has been tough this year and many wondered if walleye numbers are low. You seem to think they are still low despite these trend netting results. I wonder if the population is higher than you think and fishing has been tough because resident fish have a good food supply at the moment and are just difficult to catch. I wonder this because of what I see in other waters with other fish.
Walleye are known to be tougher to catch and particularly finicky fish. What kind of food supply do they have now? Is it abundant compared to other years or different? Is the DWR still stocking tiny wiper fry to supplement the wiper population, or are they stocking larger fry? Could this be a reason that walleye have been tough to catch--lots of little wipers to munch on?
Anyway, just a couple thoughts...
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