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| Are there in an average lake? What's normal? |
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Location: So. Illinois | I've heard lakes can hold one to two per acre. I believe surveys usually support this number but I don't have any experience in this area -- just what I have heard. |
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| 0.5 to 1.0 per acre unless it's Lake Webster then 6 per acre  |
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Posts: 1996
Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | Population densities in WI vary anywhere between .25 fish per acre (quality management) up to 1 per acre (numbers management).
My favorite pond, Pelican Lake, has about .33 fish per acre. |
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Posts: 1769
Location: Algonquin, ILL | Most lakes I fished last season had a density of .01 fish per Lake 
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Posts: 484
Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | On average, on an average lake, there are an average number of muskies |
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| So what seems to be the idea here is that theres about 500 catchable muskies in an average 1500 acre lake, maybe as high as three times that many if its a numbers lake and ridiculous if it's Webster. Do I have that right? |
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| sometimes i like to think lakes have no muskys in em |
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| yes sunfish your math is right...I believe they usually go by "adult muskies" per acre in which they use 30" as the minimum...
Madison lakes (Monona & Waubesa) are about .25 per acre... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I believe that the consensus is that here in WI a lower density is preferred when managing for large fish. |
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Posts: 149
| The Wisconsin DNR quotes data that says the average for Wisconsin lakes is one adult over 30" for every 2 - 3 acres of water. I guess that would make the 'normal' number at about 0.3 adults per acre.
http://dnr.wi.gov/fish/musky/muskywaters_lifehistory.html |
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