steelhead, recent study showed the average lake in Alberta gets at least over 100 times the fishing pressure of the average lake in Saskatchewan. With our substantial fishing pressure, how do you propose to have a regulation for catch and keep walleye under 18 inches without totally obliterating the recruitment into spawning size?
Saskatchewan is reducing their limits on a lot of their lakes. Ontario is currently reviewing and reducing their limits as well. Where the ex's cabin is in NW Ontario (fly in), a lake equal in size to Pigeon, with fishing pressure of basically none compared to Pigeon, the limit there is still only 4 walleyes. Can catch a 100 walleyes a day there quite easily per person.
Only thing I would like to see Alberta do different right now, is get a more aggresive walleye stocking program going. I see they stock a few million into Lac La Biche Lake but that was it.
As for studies on our lakes, I know they do a few each year.
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