Walleyes spawning now?

[Finlander]

Walleyes spawning now?
Are the netters and spearers doing there fishing?
Just want to know the status of the spawn in relation to opening day.
Do you think the eyes will be biting good by then?

[This message has been edited by Finlander (edited 04-28-2003).]

[Guest]

Most of the Walleye spawning is done.

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[Zaraspooks]

Spoke with my Mother-in-law yesterday and she said the netters were out in full force this weekend. She stopped by an access and said the netters were bringing in lots of fish. With quite a few big ones mixed in.

The Spook

[Jeremy Donabauer]

I stopped at the Garrison Access seen two groups of 3 people netting. Both "rigs" were from WI. Watched for about 15 minutes never saw a fish. Are most of the netters from WI, or was this purely coincidence?

[waterwolff]

Same here stopped in at the North Garrison acsess last saturday there were about 10 rigs parked there all but three from wisconsin there was a family there sorting out there catch

[SpikeRoberts]

Although each individual band has a much smaller proportion of the total harvest, the sum of all of the WI tribes is greater than that of the Mille Lacs band which has in years past harvested far less than their alloted proportion.

The breakdown according to bands is:

The bands have declared a total walleye harvest of 100,000 pounds on Mille Lacs in 2003, as well as 11,498 pounds of northern pike. The walleye declarations per band breaks down as follows: Mille Lacs, 34,999 pounds; Fond du Lac and St. Croix 14,643 pounds each; Bad River, Lac du Flambeau, Lac Courte Oreilles, Mole Lake, and Red Cliff, 7,143 pounds each.

The total safe allowable harvest for Lake Mille Lacs in 2003 is 550,000 pounds. Accounting for the 100,000-pound tribal declaration and 7,500-pound state “overage adjustment” from state overharvest in 2002, state anglers may harvest 442,500 pounds of walleyes on Mille Lacs in 2003.

[Guest]

i think thats bull crap how they can net and we have that stupid slot limit it wouldn't be so bad if it was more than that 2 inch slot if you look on shore is sickning seeing all those nice eyes just laying there dead don't you all agree

[mr marbles]

I hear ya Lund, my thoughts also, very sad!

[Guest]

Well theres a little something that coulda been done about that last year.. Lots of people fishin crawlers and jumbo leeches, or whatever and lettin fish take it for 30 seconds.. When we were up there the fish were soo voracious that we just set the rod tip back about 6" and let em have it. Those guys that are lettin em swallow it got the hooks hangin out their @$$ by the time they set the hook and then rip em out.. we only had one fish that didnt wanna go back and it was just a hair under the slot limit...27 7/8" about, but i figured about the time you throw that baby in the live well about 9 game wardens would come pilin in to take me away!!

[bturck]

Are the DNR or Indian Conservation officers at all of the netting locations weighing all of the fish taken by netting or is this some quesstimate on the pounds netted?

[Guest]

there are conservation officers that set up scales and weigh each boats catch. I am speaking of the Fondulac band im not sure about the other bands.

[honker23]

I haer ya when you talk about people killing the fish last year. The fish were so active you didn't need to give em any line. We actually went to using a jointed rap at the end of an 8' snell and they pounded it. No $ for live bait either!

[Guest]

Here is what I did last year.
1. Quick set
2. No July / August fishing.(was hard to do)
3. Stay out of the Casino
4. Offered up my opinions to other anglers on 1-3.