Part of me thinks a province wide tag system is the way to go, a win card gets a limit of X " eater" size tags and one trophy per year. Fill your tags and your done keeping fish for the year. Open most lakes to some harvest.
For pike I would say an "eater" is 65-80 cm trophy >100
Don't know what it should be for walleye
The reason I like total tags is I know a retired guy back home in Manitoba during the summer he fishes 5 of 7 days a week catches his 2 and eats them for breakfast. He never breaks his possession limit but his impact on the fish stocks is pretty impressive.
Another thing I have started to see is a boat limit so say with pike you can have 5 guys in the boat but the boat can only have 10 pike taken not 15.
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