Originally Posted by
mudpuppy
I really don't understand how so many people can think the fishery went down so much. I had my best ice fishing season ever last year for walleye and the perch fishing was really good too. I limited out numerous times for walleye and caught some big fish too.. I helped out the DNR with a walleye population sensus two springs ago and the numbers were unbelieveable, the average size was about 8 lbs.. For people to say that the fishery has gone down that much seems ridiculous to me.. Maybe these "criminals" helped our fishery by removing some of these big walleyes and letting the smaller ones and many many perch survive. Youre crazy if you think huge walleyes don't eat their own kind and so many perch.. I'm sure I'll get ripped a new one for saying this but it's just a thought.. Why did the DNRE get rid of the slot limit if they were well aware of all the big fish that the netters removed?? Doesn't make sense.. Maybe everyone should just give this issue a rest, what's done is done and we can't turn back time.. We should worry more about stopping Asian Carp which will completely destroy our fishery..