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| While Muskie fishing with Jayman last Saturday, we noticed about a dozen walleyes floating on the Fox throughout the morning. Last night at the GB MI meeting, I talked with several others who noticed that same thing throughout the week. I talked with Warden Ben, and he is going to contact the new fisheries biologist for the area, who just started on Oct 1st. They will let me(us) know when they find anything out.
Anybody else notice this? These were recently dead fish, as they were not discolored or rotting yet. All the fish were maybe 17-20 inchers. |
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| Shep, you and I already discussed this, we are both well aware that it's the tournament fisherpeoples faults.  Thanks again for the day on the water. |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | No, it's those darn muskie guys killing their baitfish again. They should be required to buy a stamp. |
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Location: Rhinelander | Actually, the big muskies are moving into the river and scared those poor little 'eyes to death just swimming by. |
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| Steve, that could quite possibly be closer to the truth |
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| Tyee was up there using his new culling scale!
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| You guys are cracking me up today! I have not been on the river since the 1st but will be down there all weekend. I will keep my eyes open. I hope we get a follow up from the DNR Biologist on this.
I bet it was fear of Jayman on the river that made them keel over!  |
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| Fin, I wasn't in my boat.....they never would of seen me coming. HAHA I was going to try to get up ther this weekend but plans have changed and they have that tournament, so I'll just stay out of there. The following weekend looks a bit better now if I decide to go. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | i drove threw last saturday afternoon ,, there were a ton of go fast boats and runabouts putting in and taking out above the depere dam.... im thinking with the warm low water levels anything in the channel got cut up pretty well... i couldnt believe the boat trafic , of course it was like 80 out .. only days ago.... how quick it can change... oh ya do you think guys like jayman and the rest above could put enough fear into a walleye to do something like this just by pulling up in the boat? ive heard there good but.... i dont know ........ i have seen some sheep run to the other side of the field when they drive past with the boat on the trailer... i guess maybe they are a bit intimidating.. |
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| I am hoping to run an 8 board spread this weekend for Eyes all around the Musky Tournament guys. OK You know I am just kidding..... porbably only 6 boards. >:-)
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| This last post was from me. For some reason I was logged out.  Oops. |
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Location: Rhinelander | Now I must admit, I didn't think of that b894. Some of the guys here could strike enough fear into a 20" walleye's heart to cause it to stop, especially when it's hot like it was and the walleyes expect it to be cold. The two events at the same time could have simply been too much for the little buggers. They may have just given up and stuck their collective heads in the bottom thinking they were hiding, and THAT was fatal....Sometimes I see that on Pelican when Norm Wild is heading out, Muskies on the Rock Bars all have a bump on their forehead. |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | Hey, how about a arm chair sort of biologist answer to break up the well... idle chatter.
Maybe the walleye moved in because of a moon phase and the shad move in on a temp phase. The shad moved in and then it hit a cold snap, the one previous to this one, and killed abunch of the shad, the walleys food base. The dead shad are laying on the bottom and all the garbage dump fish are eating it and the walleyes won't. They are starving to death. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Denny, I don't think that qualifies as armchair biology. Barstool biology, definately. Armchair biology, not quite. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | BAAHAAHAHAHAHAHHHaa STacker ,,,,, lol everyone knows its the rotation of the earth combined with gravity and the sun ... not the moon.... the cold front was still warmer than the water temp .. therefore the dam in deper started too oxidize more quickly and combined with the chemicals used on the new bridge created a toxidity level for the shad... thats why the shad split and the smelt run started .... we all know walleyes dont eat smelt and thats why there starving.... haahahahha .. silly stacker...lol i dont know where you get your facts from... |
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| I would believe some kind of chemicals from the new bridge as a possibility.
Heat exhaustion on cold blooded fish....well stranger things have happened. Excess fat reserves, the water isn't spose to be 74 degrees in Oct.?
Would be nice to know. |
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| Guys I've got it all figured out now follow this
The poor walleyes were chased to the bottom where they started to eat bait fish.Now here is where it gets interesting,after they ate the bait fish they had so much lead in them that the walleyes could not get to the surface to breath so they sufficated and died, bloated then floated to the surface which started this tread |
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Location: Midland, MI 48642 | Really what happened is a guy got pulled over by the DNR guys. He was over his limit of fish so he told the DNR he was trying to teach some of them to swim. Watch so he threw some over the side and said there. Now he is legal. End of story. Skeeter |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | barstool biology,hahahahahaahahahaha
jeez brad, if anyone should know its you,....I am always right!! |
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| I was there a few weeks ago and I noticed a slick of something on top of the water. Both the guys I was fishing with said it looked like something was leaking from the equipment working on the bridge.
The slick kept coming downriver for about an hour.
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Dead Walleyes on the Fox River