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Originally Posted by Safety D
Yip I agree allow one walleye per day lets say over 60 or 63 cm. That was the prime breeders 42 to 59 get to spawn. It works well with the pike having it one over 75. Let's the prime breeders spawn.
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I strongly disagree with you here. Let all the big fish go and reproduce and keep some of the little immature ones under 43cm that do not spawn yet. A 10 lb Walleye still lays millions of eggs and shouldn't be harvested. The small ones are better table fare anyways. Judging by the numbers of hammer handles in our waters I would suggest same thing may be appropriate for pike as well. Once they reach a certain length let them go and grow to trophy status and harvest more of the small ones that have greater impact on the available food supply in a given waterbody just due to their abundance.