12-05-2006, 01:22 AM
I do think that the ice fishing could effect the population of larger fish in Henry's. The fish are stacked in such tight pockets that if more fishermen keep coming every year then you could easilty see a couple hundred ice fishermen stacked up on top of the fish. If they weed through the smaller ones and keep to large ones each then 400 large fish a day could come out of lake on a given day.
Is all I can say is what I saw on the last day. I counted 50 people at the peak of the day. Everyone was having a good time and I did not see anyone cheating or mistreating the fish. I did see that most people kept two very large fish each. I know for sure that I saw 10 over 7lbs harvested. I took one home that was 8lb 2 oz so I don't hold against anyone I am just saying that as the popularity spreads so will the pressure on the big fish. I really think that it is concievable that 2 or 3 thousand big fish could be harvest if there was an early freeze and people got out for the last three weeks of the season instead of one week.
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Windriver
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Is all I can say is what I saw on the last day. I counted 50 people at the peak of the day. Everyone was having a good time and I did not see anyone cheating or mistreating the fish. I did see that most people kept two very large fish each. I know for sure that I saw 10 over 7lbs harvested. I took one home that was 8lb 2 oz so I don't hold against anyone I am just saying that as the popularity spreads so will the pressure on the big fish. I really think that it is concievable that 2 or 3 thousand big fish could be harvest if there was an early freeze and people got out for the last three weeks of the season instead of one week.
Good to hear from you fight for not check your PMs.
Windriver
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