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| those dang muskies!!!!!!! oh wait. |
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Location: Eden Prairie & Pine Island | Trouble is, violators usually only get a slap on the wrist i.e., small fines, etc. Rarely do they confiscate all their equipment or send a real message with the punishment.
Edited by GMan 2/1/2012 10:02 AM
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| mmmm walleyes |
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| Fisherman ruin fish populations not necessarily diff fish species. I work in a large retail store and every time a customer starts talking bad about muskies their story always seems to start with..."We used to catch limits/buckets of fish, then the muskies ate them all!" GOTTA LOVE IT! |
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Location: Hudson, WI | "See that spot? Me and Ol' Milt Svenholtz used to catch a limit apiece there everyday, dontcha know. Everyday, I tell ya. Hell, I've lived on this lake for 50 years! Then the Goddang muskies come in and eat em all!"
Oh, so you guys ate 2000+ walleyes off of one spot every year for 50 years?
"You betcha!!! Then the muskie, he come in here, and wipe em out!" |
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Posts: 147
Location: Chesterton, Indiana | Muskies are the problem for all other fisherman. Whether it be a bass fisherman, crappie, or walleye fisherman those dang muskies ruin everything. |
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| from 1923-1939 the Canadian government payed for removal of pesky beluga whales because they were depleting the fish in the Gulf of St. Laurence, even went so far as bombing pods of whales from planes. Clearly men are incapable of seeing individual impact and thus some blame the belugas and muskies... others want/possess more rational ecologically rooted explanations. |
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| Heard it too... "Yeah we used to go out on Friday mornings and limit out by noon for our Friday night fish fry. Now we can't catch our limit by the end of the day! Ever since they put muskies in the lake the fishing's gone to crap!"
So half the town is pigging out on the "all you can eat" fish every Friday night for the whole season, year after year, and now because there's muskies in the lake all the fish are gone?? |
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| I've heard similar stories involving muskies/walleyes, and bluegill/pike. The banter is always the same..."We used to catch walleyes before muskies came around, in fact, it was nothing to catch 3-5 limits every day during the first 3 weeks of opener and again in early fall."
Out on Mississippi Backwaters guys would blame stunted gills in the backwaters on the pike, or dogfish or anything, but the rhetoric was the same..."We fished Iowa cuz the dummies had no limits on bluegills, crappies and perch." Once that got straightened out, I owned a 60' trailer near some Trempleau back waters. Gill fishing was good, and I'd eat 10 a day as long as I was up there but threw back at least 50/day after that. "You should have stayed yesterday, the last 90 minutes we so hot that we had to use one 2-man sled just to drag the fish off. Still nothing like the old days when we would catch a limit and then change clothes and do that 3 or 4 times a day." Greed, pure and simple. No brains. Remember the good ol days? 2 years ago I TIP'd 3 guys who were catching and fileting smallmouths by a warm water discharge. Majority was females, and besides the filets, they all filled a basket just before dark. I waited in the parking lot, but no DNR, they ran into a train, so I stalled my boat and trailer parallel to the Genoa tracks and told the guy who opened the gates what was going on, and he locked the gates down until the DNRs from Wis, Iowa and Minn showed up. I stuck around, and they figured between 275-300 smallmouths in a little over 24 hrs. I hope that they lost it all for life. I've even turned in my own brother and nephew during the deer season. It was nothing to see 6 untagged does in their garage on opening, and then good guy about the neighbors.* |
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