Anyone know where I can get a few walleyes?

[Getanet]

I'd still like to see someone do an experiment by posting a report about a metro pond that only has bullheads, and what it's like the next day or two. I would be surprised if it really made much difference.

I've never followed a report on this site. I learned my lesson about "hot bite" reports when I was about 10, after sitting in the back of my uncle's construction van in a lawn chair on a 4 hour drive to a lake with a dynamite crappie bite. It was late ice, so we had to walk across 2x4s from shore to get on solid ice. I think we caught about 5 crappies that day, and everyone kept saying, "you should have been here yesterday."

I mainly visit these types of threads just to see the bikkering that goes on. You can almost tell by the thread title which ones are going to have the most arguments. This one was a shoe-in.

[kilkercal615]

I don't think you understood the point of my post, and you're wrong, overfishing did do a number on Red Lake. Red's walleye population crashed because of over-fishing by both sporting anglers and the Indians. That's why a lake that was once one of the best walleye producing waters in the state had to be closed for walleye fishing completely until the population could recover, and there were serious doubts at the time that it ever would. Yes, a freak year class of crappies that came as a result of rare spawning conditions did fill the void, but it still doesn't mean the lake's ecosystem wasn't way out of whack for a long time.

Even though sportfishermen can only fish 1/4 of the lake, the rest of it is fished by the Indians.

+1

[Feathers Rainin]

Wallygator. You were referring to the fact that Red Lake was affected by angling fishing. Which it wasn't. It was affected by mass uncontrolled netting. That is like saying deep sea fisherman are ruining our ocean running fisheries when in fact it is commercial netting that is hurting it. I understand your point but Red Lake is a very bad example because no one is going to be able to net metro lakes. Carls lake on the other hand would be a decent example. The bite and size of fish out there at the start of last winter was pretty good. It got out on this forum and there were houses literaly everywhere on the lake and now the lake is pretty poor for numbers and size. I agree reports on small metro lakes can be bad but the larger ones Bald Eagle, Tonka, etc that are well known have little affect from forums because they can get the same info at any bait shop. JMO

[Acemac]

I did not even have the internet when I heard about the hot bite on red. huh funny