New Walleye Lakes for tags

[goober]

Originally Posted by HunterDave

I understand exactly where you are coming from Goober. I'm up in the air over whether or not a slot size would work though. The fishing pressure would undoubtedly increase but as the fish in the slot get harder to catch I think that the angler pressure would decrease in relation to that. In other words, once it gets harder to catch a keeper sized fish some people would give it up.

Maybe if SRD picked the right sized fish to keep, natural spawning could offset the number of fish taken out of the lake. Enforcement would be a key issue as it's allot easier to poach a fish a little smaller/bigger than the slot than it is for the tag system.

I'd definitely chose a slot size over something targeting big spawning fish but I don't know if it'd be a better option over the tag system.

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Might be a little different if there were more lakes and more options, then a slot size might be the ideal thing.

[Racer31]

Originally Posted by goober

I think because it is a smaller lake and the close proximity to the city it would not work. It may work and I could be wrong it is just my opinion that it would fail. I have been fishing this lake since the early 80's and have watched its ups and downs over the years. In the early 80's it was a decent Walleye fishery and when word got out about that by the early 90's they were few and far between. The lake was soon declared as collapsed and closed for Walleye. At this time there was no slot size so maybe that would make a difference but no way to control it still. I like the control factor that comes with the tags I guess is what I am trying to say.

Thanks for your feed back, I can see that aurguement.

[HunterDave]

Draw opens March 23.......BTT.