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| Shoud this event be cancalled due to the virus or at the very least be a kill tourney?  |
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| They should cancell all tournaments and disinfect all tournament boats that have come from any water know to be infected. Is there a possible connection to any events held in effected waters where a large group of tournament boats fish a body of water that was infected and then traveled to the Winnebago system and carried the infection with them as they prefished and then fished a tournament here. Just asking, I don't follow the Walleye and Bass Tournaments but didn't the Walleye circut just come from Lake Erie/Detroit river.
This is the most serious issue to affect the Winnebago Chain ever and should not be taken lightly. Every precaution should be implemented to discover the source of infection/strain and where it came from.
Every effort to reduce the spread should be taken. Tournaments re-distribute fish back into the lake and therefor should be banned to avoid contanination of healthy areas.
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Location: Southwest shore Bago | No they shouldnt cancell the event. I would be willing to guess that the DNR will be getting alot more information and data from the fish that come in to be weighed. They are at the event both days measureing and sexing all of the fish that are not released. Banning fishing Tournaments is not going to stop fishermen from traveling to other waters and fishing them. If anything I think it would make more trips available by fishermen because not having tournaments will free up alot of there time. |
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Location: Rhinelander | I don't think the events on the Winnebago system will have an effect any different than general angling for all species of fishes. |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | As a fisherman who goes to the big water, I would like to know something. What kills this disease and how do I get my hands on it. When we went to Milford for the NTC a few years back, we had to have bleach water in our bilges to kill ZEEBEE's before we arrived or we could not launch. AND THEY CHECKED. If you were from infected waters and in the water and did not have the clearance sticker, you were fined heavilly and DQ'ed from competition.
On bago it would be tough to go to this extreme but if we knew what would kill it, I would use it.
I THINK MOST PEOPLE WOULD!! |
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Location: Rhinelander | Bleach solution mixed the same as is recommended for Zebra M's will kill the virus, as will heat and drying. Killing all fish and live bait (minnows) before transporting is probably going to be the law from ANY infected waters, to keep folks from 'milk can stocking' the disease in to inland waters. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | cancel? lets have 3 merc nationals a year... a great event ! look forward to seeing some old freinds .. good luck all. |
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| The DNR is doing their best looking into the VHS situation.This could be a Great Lakes live bait (Shiners)problem.
Do not blame this on the tournament fisherman too.
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| When is the Merc nationals? Is there a Link? |
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| I think they need to drop the amount of boats allowed down to 100 and make it a kill tourney, putting 1000 or more stressed out fish back into the system can not be good. Those fish will be the ones most likely to aquire the virus when released. just like with humans, the old, weak and young are the first ones to die. |
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| Sounds good to me. 100 boats on the whole system that day. Kill everything. Non tournament folks too, right. Don't want any of their stressed fish released either. |
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| Most weekend anglers keep and eat what they catch on Winnebago, I wouldn't think to many of them catch a limit of walleyes, drive 40mph in 3 footers to the boat landing and release them. Just hope they even have a tourney, the media is already talking about the tourney possible being cancelled. |
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| Scott the last thing they are going to do is cancel walleye weekend. |
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Merc.Nat. Event????