Fisherdan
10-15-2022, 11:02 PM
Went to Pine Lake with my little guy today. It was a beautiful day, and we caught a bunch of small dinky pike… which was perfect for him!
Growing up I spent a lot of summers there. This was about 25-30 years ago. At that time the pike were bigger. Usually about 1.5 - 2 pounds. We would sometimes get a 4 or 5 pound fish. Never any walleye. There were lots of perch. Nice ones too. And not too many restrictions on keeping fish back then.
The last time I visited was maybe 10 years ago. We were catching walleye and pike. Couldn’t believe that I was catching walleye at Pine Lake! That was almost unheard of before. Apparently the walleye stocking program was a great success… but at the great expense of the perch which had been decimated by this point.
My little guy and I did not catch any walleye today. I spoke to a local who seemed to think that there weren’t too many walleye anymore. I’m not sure… today was just one little trip.
It is amazing to see how a lake can evolve over a period of time. Even the area around a lake. There was an old barn that has tipped over and collapsed. The last time I saw it it was just an old barn! The algae in the lake hasn’t changed. It is what it is, and what it always has been — But that’s just looking at it through my short timeline. I’m sure someone from decades before would have seen a very different lake, perhaps without algae.
Growing up I spent a lot of summers there. This was about 25-30 years ago. At that time the pike were bigger. Usually about 1.5 - 2 pounds. We would sometimes get a 4 or 5 pound fish. Never any walleye. There were lots of perch. Nice ones too. And not too many restrictions on keeping fish back then.
The last time I visited was maybe 10 years ago. We were catching walleye and pike. Couldn’t believe that I was catching walleye at Pine Lake! That was almost unheard of before. Apparently the walleye stocking program was a great success… but at the great expense of the perch which had been decimated by this point.
My little guy and I did not catch any walleye today. I spoke to a local who seemed to think that there weren’t too many walleye anymore. I’m not sure… today was just one little trip.
It is amazing to see how a lake can evolve over a period of time. Even the area around a lake. There was an old barn that has tipped over and collapsed. The last time I saw it it was just an old barn! The algae in the lake hasn’t changed. It is what it is, and what it always has been — But that’s just looking at it through my short timeline. I’m sure someone from decades before would have seen a very different lake, perhaps without algae.