Second hand info from the Commercial guys I bought the whites from, but the Bio said that the few walleye caught in the net should have been in the 5 - 7 pd range for their length.
As for the tactics on the whites, I used to fish between the nets at Pigeon in the middle of the lake with a small Kastmaster in gold, or a small swidish pimple, and we would be done in 15 minutes. Those whites were alot smaller. These things were similar to what I have caught at Hanmore. Next trip out, in the sunny mid day, I will be driving a mile off shore and give it a whirl as a kastmaster will drop to 50 plenty fast.
What concerns me is all the walleye I have cleaned this winter from Calling do not look like they will spawn in May. I can only guess the real skinny big ones are in the same sterile condition.
The story will be that the lake "collapsed under fishing pressure", when the truth is the big ones ate everything and starved out. It will take alot of years before the balance is back, and it won't be because of fishing pressure.
Drewski
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