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Originally Posted by smitty9
Kurt:
Cheers. Quite familiar with Google maps, you chose your images poorly. 
Anyways, ce'st la vie.
All I know is if Edmonton anglers were allowed their olden' days limit of 3 or 5 or 10 walleye per outing, wouldn't take long for Pigeon or Wabamun or Ste. Anne to get fished out. Ditto for the Lac la Biche crowd with Touchwood or Elinor or Pinehurst. Wait, didn't that already happen years ago due to liberal limits? 
Anyways, it all comes down to funding, AEP policies/principles and culture of angling in this province. And that's 3 strikes against us right there. |
Nobody is asking to go back to the old days. Old days was 5 walleye any size, and I think it might have been 10 before that. I think 1 slot size fish per outing would be manageable, with harsh penalties like forfeiture of boat, angling gear, and license for anyone caught over their limit.
Pigeon, Wabamun, and St Anne all need to be thinned out to help create a balanced fishery imo, and a 1 fish limit would do them good, even if only for a season or two. It took decades of 5 any size to collapse the lakes, I’m 100% positive opening up a one fish slot size would only help the lakes.
It certainly would help alleviate the pressure they’ve created on the lakes that allow retention.