If I could make the walleye regs I'd have a few lakes, including a few of the big lakes, with zero retention limits so the walleye population is protected in these lakes. On most lakes, including most of the big lakes, I'd raise the walleye limits to one or two walleye per day. I realize this would crash the walleye numbers, but that's okay. On a lake like Sylvan, there used to be a good perch fishery until about 10 years ago. Now the perch have crashed and the lake is full of stunted walleye. I think the pike can keep the perch population under control on their own, but add in walleye and there's too many predators (pike and walleye) after too few perch. Need to get one group of predators reduced, and I vote to reduce the walleye.
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