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| Lots of fish in the bay........lots of meat hunters....if and when it hits the no fish of the 80's just like bago.....then we'll see.......I hear all kinds of crying both ways...oh yeah how much pressure does Michigan get compred to lower bay? It's ten fold or will be. Remember the no perch years.....how easy we all forget....conserve. |
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| Droughts and poor spawning habitat along with harvest of fish lead to the decline of 'Bago. Not harvest alone. Green Bay perch decline was a result of multiple piss poor spawning years, commercial harvest and a 50 fish a day limt for sportsmen.
I'd like to believe we are conserving more now, than in the last 40+ years. "The sky is not falling" |
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| I agree with you on that. My point is we have to be careful not to over harvest the resource. We could have all the same scenarios again. With the evasives coming in we have to conserve the resource. We don't know what they will do to are fish yet? They could (evasives) and probably will take there toll on the Bay and possibly Bago with the locks opening back up in a year or two. I'd rather be safe then sorry in the end with a 3 bag limit and 15 perch limit. If my son and I go out for a day and catch 30 perch or 6 walleyes that's 3 meals of perch and 4-6 meals of walleyes. I personally don't keep many fish from the lower bay. So my point is how many fish do you need??? We could get into a P#$#ing match on this but, I won't. Another thing is someone pointed out if we can catch 5 fish for a tournament we'll kill less. How do you figure? Now instead of catching and KEEPING 6 fish you can keep 10. remember once it's in the livewell it stays in there for tournaments and state law no culling. I have fished tourneys for many years. I know how it works...The law is made so lets conserve. I have fished the good years and bad years on both bago and the bay. Let's all keep the good years coming..... |
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| I agree with you on that. My point is we have to be careful not to over harvest the resource. We could have all the same scenarios again. With the evasives coming in we have to conserve the resource. We don't know what they will do to are fish yet? They could (evasives) and probably will take there toll on the Bay and possibly Bago with the locks opening back up in a year or two. I'd rather be safe then sorry in the end with a 3 bag limit and 15 perch limit. If my son and I go out for a day and catch 30 perch or 6 walleyes that's 3 meals of perch and 4-6 meals of walleyes. I personally don't keep many fish from the lower bay. So my point is how many fish do you need??? We could get into a P#$#ing match on this but, I won't. Another thing is someone pointed out if we can catch 5 fish for a tournament we'll kill less. How do you figure? Now instead of catching and KEEPING 6 fish you can keep 10. remember once it's in the livewell it stays in there for tournaments and state law no culling. I have fished tourneys for many years. I know how it works...The law is made so lets conserve. I have fished the good years and bad years on both bago and the bay. Let's all keep the good years coming..... |
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Location: Green Bay, WI. | It doesn't help when a fairly new Charter Capt. but long time inland lakes guide takes Gillespie out to Geanos and does a show, then gives up the exact spot. And whats worse a little while later lets a client keep 3 fish over 29" to get mounted. Whatever happened to a replica. |
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