I've fished my whole life on East Branch dam, I have the stocking reports from 1974 until like 1995 or something?

In 1983 they stocked small mouth bass....THE ONLY YEAR THEY STOCKED THEM, ALL NATURAL AFTER THAT.

Muskies got about 7000 per year then dropped to around 4000.

Walleyes got stocked by the hundreds of thousands each year after about 1985 or so....like 700,000,000 per year. I'm talking about millions of fish and it still isn't a walleye lake....wasted $$$$$

Once they caught on then it was on.....fishing has decreased ever since.
I hear it at the boat launch everytime someone asks me what I got, I don't want to know what they got because it just makes me mad.
I know they don't have a picture like I do, they have dead fish.

My lake I loved as a kid that is so close to me, I don't even go there now.
Bass fishing is lousy, very few fish that are larger that 12"
Back in the day many bass in the 16-20" range, very few now.
Muskie fishing is way down, can't catch perch anywhere on the lake anymore.

It's a shame, I was so pissed when I found out they were being introduced into the lake becasue I know the outcome.
Meat hunters were coming to my lake.............

You know anyone who targets bass and keeps them?
You know anyone who targets muskie and keeps them?

DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO TARGETS WALLEYE AND DOESN'T KEEP THEM??

I sure don't.

Maybe your walleye, or lack there of, you are trying to blame on muskie all lies with the the other end of the line.

I'm not against someone taking a few fish now and then, it's your choice.
Keeping a muskie or any trophy fish...stupid!

A 40" muskie is just starting to reproduce,just becoming an adult.
The reproduction rate is so small of a %%%%

A replicia mount cost the exact same money as a skin mount.

I caught my first muskie over 50 inches this year, 52. it was during the Titiute fishing tourney. I had a choice to turn that fish in and be able to fish the second day for the $$ or release a fish that probably is 20 or so years old.
It may have costed my the $1000 prize but it was worth $999.99 to see her swim off safely so i or someone else can catch her when she is 55 or maybe even the next state record.
The stress of hauling her in would of probably killed her, and me as well.
Keeping her was never even a thought.