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Location: Seymour, WI | If you go to the WI DNR site
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/fhp/fish/pubs/muskydoc.pdf
This report was prepared in Mar of 2003. It is an excellent blue print for musky mgmt in WI. It clearly states several times in the report the goal of WI DNR is to manage muskies as a trophy fishery. The report divides WI lakes into catagories by class and reproductive status. Gives ave weight, length and growth rates of WI muskies caught.
Stated goals of the program are to:
A. Protect and enhance WI fisheries. B Protect spawning habitat. C. Protect genetic integrity of the strain. D. Manage some lakes for trophy fisheries and manage others as action lakes. E. Rehabilitate failing fisheries through stocking and habitate restoration. F. Monitor lakes progress and evaluate proposed changes. G. Educate about CPR.
The report includes the stocking quotas of every stocked lake in WI. It also has a section devoted to musky tournament rules in WI.
This should be the blue print for musky management in WI. We just need to get the trophy management piece of it going.
Grass,
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| Thanks for sharing this Grass, I have had it for about a year and I have been telling people to take a look at it. That is where I came up with the idea to have different size limits by grade of lake. I support the WDNR for all that they do, and we need to organize behind them and support their efforts to manage by biology and not by politics and old world thinking!  | |
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| I read it, and even gave Mr Simonson a call....unfortunately he was away from his desk.
I found it very interesting and informitive.
The chart showing the harvest rate going down at a steady rate was very nice to see. It seems that most of their info was based on M.I. information, and didn't include any numbers of NA harvest. It paints a rosy picture backed with good intentions, and I wish them luck.
I paid special attention to the part at the end about environmental issues and their recommendations to lake property owners. I don't see any 35' buffer zones for shoreline and habitat protection. I see more lake associations spraying the hell out of weeds than protecting them for muskie spawning and fish holding. Asking owners to settle for smaller sandy areas is the exact opposite of what I see.
Like I said, it's a great read filled with great intentions. I wish that those intentions became mandates, then some good could come about from his study.
I invited him to visit this board. Perhaps we can set up a chat.
It was updated in 2003 and is filled with great facts about growth rates and harvest facts, but until the DNR acts instead of writes about the management, nothing will change. Enforce habitat protection instead of letting lake associations spray weeds like a retired guy with a can of Roundup. Make it a law that there has to be a buffer zone, and provide people with the brush bundles to plant, that's the only way anything will get done. Hell, I'm sure muskie groups would volunteer to help with the work, I know that I would.
Good intentions are good intentions, we need action.
I've seen too many waters overdeveloped, sprayed to death......."Don't eat any fish from this area. It has been sprayed with NAVIGATE." I'm sure that the eagles sitting in the trees above that area can read those signs.
I'll call Mr Simonson again, and see if he can chat with us.
We'll see what has been accomplished since the 2003 study. I hope a lot, but I fear little has been done.
Beaver
Edited by Beaver 1/7/2005 9:55 AM
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Location: The Yahara Chain | Thanks for the info Grass. | |
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| I just got done watching the Angling Edge TV program.
Jim Lindner had some interesting points on muskies and muskie fishing.
The part that I found most interesting was that he said that MN went on an extensive stocking program 15-17 years ago, and that many of these fish are nearing their optimum growth level right now. That's why he believes there are so many 50+" fish showing up lately. But, he credits CPR as the reason that those stocked fish ever had a chance to make it to the size that they have.
If you have a chance to catch the program this week, don't miss it.
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