New 2019 Fishing Regs out

[huntsfurfish]

I see the Admin has a new sticky at the top.

Thanks for posting Admin!

[RavYak]

What a surprise, even more reductions in limits...

Just get it over with and make it all C&R. That is clearly what the bios/politicians want...

[swampy45]

I cant wait to hear all the uproar with the new regs. People are going to lose their minds.

Has anyone looked at the Walleye Draws? Just throwing that one out there...

[Brandonkop]

Looks like nothing has changed, 20 years of walleye closures and they're still closing more. None have reopened. Seems they need to change their game plan a bit.

Before reintroducing walleye to Lac La Biche there were tons of perch, big pike and no walleye. Now There are walleye non retention, No Perch and the Pike well they're disappearing now too and you can no longer retain any. You tell me... is it the fisherman causing the problem or the walleye?

[jungleboy]

I've given up on the idea of keeping any fish in this province , I love fishing and have contented myself with C+R here . I absolutely refuse to buy a tag for a walleye. That is an absurd proposition as far as I am concerned.It's cheaper to go to the store and buy a fish if I really feel the need to eat one after a day of throwing em back.
I am well aware that Alberta suffers from a lack of fish-able lakes per fisher but it also suffers from a long history of mismanagement when it comes to .... well almost everything to do with natural resources . Let's be honest here, the powers that be have and continue to screw this province up royally when it comes to sport fishing and hunting because they are incapable of looking at anything without dollar signs in their eyes

[timsesink]

Well scratch N. Wabasca off your books.

[Mr Flyguy]

Originally Posted by jungleboy

I've given up on the idea of keeping any fish in this province , I love fishing and have contented myself with C+R here . I absolutely refuse to buy a tag for a walleye. That is an absurd proposition as far as I am concerned.It's cheaper to go to the store and buy a fish if I really feel the need to eat one after a day of throwing em back.
I am well aware that Alberta suffers from a lack of fish-able lakes per fisher but it also suffers from a long history of mismanagement when it comes to .... well almost everything to do with natural resources . Let's be honest here, the powers that be have and continue to screw this province up royally when it comes to sport fishing and hunting because they are incapable of looking at anything without dollar signs in their eyes

Costco had some really good walleye (they call them pickerel) fillets in last week. $22 bought 2 meals for me and my lady friend and still a nice chunk left in the freezer for later. No hangups about not actually having caught them.

I will keep some rainbows from an ice fishing trip but otherwise it's catch and release for me. Live with it or take up gardening!

[pikeman06]

Won't waste my breath on the topic. Just gotta flip open the photo album from the mid to late eighties to see the wicked perch and big pike we caught at will back then. Strangely enough very few walleye even tho they were fair game. I guess those 63 and a half centimeter first time spawner pike didn't quite produce like the 10 to 20 lb beauty hens that knew how to spawn instinctively during low water years to sustain a population for decades or centuries. Dumb fishermen don't know nothing. Neither do the guys calling the shots in saskie or manitoba. Kill all your brood stock off plus the winter kill plus the algae plus the dropping water levels and make dam sure you don't stock a single fish to make up for bad year classes in a province with too many fishermen and not enough water to begin with. Just keep pouring and protecting the worst predator fish of them all into these downtrodden lakes at the worst possible time to get your 10 bux back that they never should have bothered with if they woulda done a little research to see the impact 10 million wallies, protected from day one would have on an already hopeless situation.

[lfv2004]

Originally Posted by RavYak

What a surprise, even more reductions in limits...

Just get it over with and make it all C&R. That is clearly what the bios/politicians want...

I bet, in 10 years it will be only C+R within 300km of any city with 50k+ population.