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Originally Posted by Walleyedude
My first question would be, why would you want to eat that 25 yr old 8lb+ walleye?
My second question would be, at what point is that prolific spawner no longer considered viable, or capable of 2-3 times the spawning potential of smaller or immature fish? How do you make that call as an angler? Why would you want to?
My third question would be, why would you want to deprive someone else of the opportunity to harvest a trophy fish like that? Anglers complain about the lack of big fish or trophy fish in AB waters, but then want to introduce a limit or a tag for harvesting those big fish? With the "logic" being that it's going to die anyway, so it might as well be today? Makes no sense to me...
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Doesn't make sense to me either. I've never looked at a trophy walleye and thought, "Wow, I'd like to take this fish home to eat." They taste worse than smaller fish, and as you say, deprive someone else of the opportunity to catch them.
I'm surprised that this isn't something that there is nearly 100% agreement on.