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Effect on Walleye Population
With a large percentage of US fisherman cancelling their trips, Canadian camps not opening this year, and tourist not being able to cross the border, obviously the numbers of walleyes being harvested will be at a low from many years prior.
What numbers of fish NOT harvested from Ontario alone would be a good guess and how many years will it be when there is a noticeable population expolosion? Assuming half of the season is shot. |
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I was thinking about this the other day. My parents have run a fly-in lodge since 1997. First year they went with a selective harvest catch and consume. No walleyes kept over 18", no limits brought home - keep what you want to eat for shore lunch. In my time guiding up there, we'd bring in 4-6 walleyes a day a boat for lunch. I'd say the average guest ate two walleyes a day. Average trip length was 4 days. Average season was about 300 guests. That's 2,400 slot walleyes that won't get eaten this season. Guides also eat walleye at shore lunch - that's easily another 500 walleyes. Throw in a few staff fish fries we are easily looking at 3,000 walleyes uneaten during the 2020 summer.
These shore lunch numbers may seem pretty big, but I think there will be bigger influences at play due to the lack of fishermen on Shikag. The bass aren't going to get pounded while they're spawning. The northerns will get free predatory range. The big walleye spots will be untouched. The pressure is off the fish completely in 2020. That's something the lake hasn't seen in at least 60 years. I'd like to take a few months off of real work in 2021, get a canadian work visa and guide again for the 2021 season. It's not like these fish weren't hungry before, but a sure bet is that they'll be hungrier in 21 than they were in 19. (You know the week before you get up there ). |
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Definatly will be a plus for the fish population but you won't see any results from it for years as our walleyes grow slow.If the fall season would not happen the amount of fish that would be safe from fisherman that fish to deep would have a bigger impact on tge sizeable fish allready there.Fall time is the worst mortality rate of the season.Unfortunately i see a lot of boats fishing in places way to deep.
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Walleyes not eaten or taken home on Eagle Lake?
I would make a guess with all the resorts and lodges on Eagle plus the cabins and cottage owners not harvesting walleyes on Eagle that the number of Walleye not harvested could be over 100,000? Let's say a very big resort on Eagle has 1,000 guests a year ( yes there are resorts there that get that many, one used to get 3,000 before the new owners cut back).
A rough outlook and a fun guess on how good next year could be! 4 fish limit to take home. Plus 2 walleyes per day for shorelunch times 6 days= 16 walleyes per fisher-person. Plus guides everyday on the water. Now they all don't eat that many or take them home but it's an example of how many more fish could be swimming in Eagle if the season doesn't happen this summer. And those Muskie would have all those extra walleyes to eat and could put on some girth! You think the ministry would increase our bag limit for the next year? Nah! You think the fish would become more stupid on what a jig and minnow are? Nah! Good luck hope we can get there this summer but I don't think so. Our lodge owner says he's open but not sure we can get there. |
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With the new rule last year on eagle the guests i had ,had a tough time taking 4 walleyes home.They wanted a shorelunch each day.so each day they had there 2 alotted fish each they could keep for the day.So cant keep any more that day as you have caught your legal posesion .next day and the next day,etc kept having shorelunch so end of week no take homes.So that new rule itself will add more fish to the population in itself.
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A one year blip is unlikely to have long term effects.
Another thing to consider. If this year does have a strong impact on any lake it's safe to assume that lake is being seriously over fished. |
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I agree on 1 year should not make much of a difference, but good post to kill time until the liberals open things up as I really do t need them telling me how to live
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eagle lake rule
prov 1800, what new rule on eagle lake are you talking about?
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Sage, the new rule in Zone 5 is 2 walleye per day, S or C license, the S license is still 4 total.
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That new rule is for non resident fisherman only.
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