[Brock1]

Originally Posted by drewski canuck

the overall health of the lake is because of the reproduction of the individual walleye in the lake. If they are allowed to breed, and recruit to the population, then the lake is sustainable for recreational and non regulated fishing.

Slot sizes do in fact work, and the tag system is really only useful on small lakes or lakes with very significant fishing pressure. And then when the fn / metis nets hit the water where tags are allowed, or on no retention waters, totally pointless anyway.

The tag system bandwagon that aep has been on for more than a decade is badly applied. Many of the non retention lakes around st. Paul, closed for as much as 15 years, is proof of that.

Baptiste lake was converted to tags based upon a creel survey done in the hottest days of august. Guess what, few people caught any walleye, and the bios said baptiste had collapsed. Tags went on and that is the way its been.

Later test netting showed that the walleye were in fact stable, and it was a poorly done creel survey due to the hottest days in august and the short period of time of the survey.

But that did not matter!!! The agenda was make it a tags only lake!!!

So if you are the bio who made the decision, you know you set this up to fail to justify your agenda, or you made a bad decision that you now refuse to reverse. No reason baptiste should not be on a slot system.

I hope you are with aep or forward this thread to them. More lakes should be on a slot system.

Your "overall health of the lake" explanation is just a "chicken and egg" argument that forgets that its the strategy of allowing individual fish to reproduce while balancing the interests of recreational fishermen, that is critical.

Drewski

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