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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Michigan stocked 5000 fall fingerlings in Little Bay de Noc this fall. |
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Location: Seymour, WI | The yoopers will be eating good in a couple of yrs. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | That's pretty awesome Will... first stocking there? How many acres is the bay? |
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | Hopefully GLS! |
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Location: oswego, il | Is this a yearly thing? Hope so will be a great musky fishery. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | This is the first year. That bay is about 30,000 acres. We (MI-DNR) only stock GLS in Michigan now with the exception of a few Wisco. strain (+/- 3000) traded with Wisconsin for lakes with naturalized W-strain. LBdN should get stocked for two more years then it will be on an every other year rotation.
Edited by Will Schultz 11/19/2014 1:58 PM
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| This is exciting because muskies have been showing up there occasionally from the Green Bay plantings. More genetics is a great thing. I look forward to eventually being able to muskie fish the bays I grew up fishing. |
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| Great News, thanks for posting. Which hatchery do these fish come from |
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Location: Western U.P. | Have done some searches, but not found much info on Musky stockings in Lake Superior around the U.P. The Lake Superior Chapter of Muskies Inc looks like they are doing stockings in MN & WI, but didn't see much of anything for this side of the big lake. Any of you guys involved in the LBDN stocking know if there have been, or any possibilities/future plans for stocking Muskies in the West half of Superior? |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Cedar - 11/19/2014 6:54 PM
any possibilities/future plans for stocking Muskies in the West half of Superior?
Other than the St Louis River, Lake Superior would probably be too cold for muskies. |
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Location: Appleton,WI | Not true a few places on superior hold musky |
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Location: Western U.P. | muskie! nut - 11/19/2014 8:41 PM
Cedar - 11/19/2014 6:54 PM
any possibilities/future plans for stocking Muskies in the West half of Superior?
Other than the St Louis River, Lake Superior would probably be too cold for muskies.
MuskieE is correct. I've been catching them in Superior (U.P. waters) for many years. Wouldn't mind seeing the populations in the small pockets of fish helped out, and maybe expanded upon.
Edited by Cedar 11/19/2014 11:25 PM
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| Jschinderle - 11/19/2014 3:40 PM
Great News, thanks for posting. Which hatchery do these fish come from
Wolf Lake Fish hatchery. SW MI |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | that's a winter Walleye ice mecca ... did you get any reverb from the Walleye community prior to stocking? |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | jonnysled - 11/20/2014 7:54 AM that's a winter Walleye ice mecca ... did you get any reverb from the Walleye community prior to stocking? As far as I know there wasn't any push back from anyone on the LBdN restoration. In most of the waters where the GL-Muskies are being restored it's been the opposite, the local walleye groups are in support of muskellunge stocking. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Cedar - 11/19/2014 7:54 PM Have done some searches, but not found much info on Musky stockings in Lake Superior around the U.P. The Lake Superior Chapter of Muskies Inc looks like they are doing stockings in MN & WI, but didn't see much of anything for this side of the big lake. Any of you guys involved in the LBDN stocking know if there have been, or any possibilities/future plans for stocking Muskies in the West half of Superior? The only waters managed by Michigan in that area are in the class of waters that probably won't be stocked but should see an increase in population with the regulation change that was put in place a couple years ago. Spearing continues to be the primary thing holding many of our waters back from being world class.
Edited by Will Schultz 11/20/2014 8:50 AM
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Location: Green Bay, WI | I would think it would be quite easy to reassure the walleye guys regarding any concerns they had. I mean, look at Green Bay--a world-class fishery for both muskies and walleyes. I can't imagine the number of muskies would amount to much of anything, in terms of total biomass. |
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Location: Watersmeet, Michigan | Any documentation on this? I'd like to post this info. at UPAngler and get some reactions there, but can't find anything about it and the DNR stocking records do not have anything.
I'd guess the response will not be good, especially since the walleye fishery has really been down and the perch are just making a come-back.
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Yooper Padre - 11/20/2014 4:22 PM Any documentation on this? I'd like to post this info. at UPAngler and get some reactions there, but can't find anything about it and the DNR stocking records do not have anything. I'd guess the response will not be good, especially since the walleye fishery has really been down and the perch are just making a come-back. Fr. K The MI-DNR site usually takes a few weeks to get updated after stocking. The LBdN fish were stocked in late October so should be on there soon. As we all know, the muskellunge aren't going to have a negative impact on walleye or perch - no need to stir the pot and get anglers wound up over nothing. |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | I would agree. As I mentioned in my first post, Green Bay is a PRIME example of how muskies and walleyes can live in the same ecosystem and not harm one another. There is plenty of forage out there. And my guess is that a few hundred ice-fisherman on a nice weekend in March can make as big a dent in the perch population than a crap load of muskies. Trying to convince the perch-fishing masses of that will be a bit of a challenge though, I'll bet. |
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Location: Watersmeet, Michigan | I agree that muskies have little negative impact on perch and muskie populations, but a lot of fisherman do not share that belief. These are the guys (and there are plenty of them) who cut the gills of every muskie they catch. My concern is that with less than healthy perch and walleye populations, a number of fishermen may follow the same route and greatly harm these Esox.
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Yooper Padre - 11/20/2014 5:12 PM I agree that muskies have little negative impact on perch and muskie populations, but a lot of fisherman do not share that belief. These are the guys (and there are plenty of them) who cut the gills of every muskie they catch. My concern is that with less than healthy perch and walleye populations, a number of fishermen may follow the same route and greatly harm these Esox. Fr. K This is simply a matter of education. The myths are just that, myths. It's up to us, muskie anglers, to dispel these myths and educate anglers. One average angler fishing that water is going to catch and eat more perch/wallleye than hundreds of muskies. The DNR doesn't stock muskies randomly, decisions are based on what the fishery needs and can support. It is likely that the walleye and perch fishery will improve as the muskie population takes hold. White and redhorse suckers compete directly with walleye and perch and those just happen to be at the top of the menu for muskies. |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Sure seems to have helped Green Bay. Not that the muskies are the only reason those populations are doing as well, because a lot of it also has to do with clean water. A rising tide lifts all boats, and all that. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Yooper Padre - 11/20/2014 4:22 PM Any documentation on this? Fr. K http://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MIDNR/bulletins/de9f26 |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Been out of the loop, hunting for the past couple weeks. That is great news, Will! I emailed/called the DNR and asked clubs about stocking that water a decade or so ago, when the first wave of Green Bay fish were peaking and it was becoming clear that NR was as evident as hoped in the areas stocked to that point.. I thank you all for getting it done. There is as much structure/clean river miles in that body of water as the rest of the lower bay, and it will only help support the rest of the system. I am very excited about this, knowing that prior to commercial overharvest, industrialization and the subsequent Clean Water Act of 1972, there were Muskies present and prospering in that area.
Most of all, I appreciate the MI DNR stocking, and stocking Great Lakes fish in those types of numbers, at this time. |
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