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Originally Posted by RavYak
You can read about the Long Lake example and much more in the following report.
https://era.library.ualberta.ca/item...g%25202010.pdf
Bobalong is somewhat right. It wasn't years, it was a 24 day opening with 1 fish over 50 cm limit. It had previously been C&R and people knew there was decent fishing there, with many other lakes in the area closed to retention and restrictive changes applied to other lakes fishing pressure converged on Long Lake fishing out most of the larger fish in no time.
Imo this test barely had any value though because there was too much incentive for anglers to converge on that lake. It would be like changing Pigeon to a minimum size limit now, of course it would take an absolute hammering. |
I skimmed through the 146 pages and didn't see where all the walleye over 50cm were wiped out. Can you narrow it down to a chapter?
Even though long lake is a small lake the odds of managing to essentially remove all walleye over 50cm seem astronomical.