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Originally Posted by -JR-
I agree ,they should of never added walleye to Wabamun lake. Should of kept it for pike only, and made it C&R. Those walleye are just eating all the bait that the pike have been feeding on. Pigeon lake and Lac Stainte Anne is all we needed for our walleye lakes 1 hr from Edmonton .
Alberta beach just needs to make a safer and usable boat launch like Wab has .
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Still doesn’t hurt to have some harvest of smaller pike like a 1 under kinda deal. I am not posting where but there is areas with big pike with a 3 pike limit but they are not high numbers locations. These pike are getting big do to lots of fatty forage and reasonable numbers so there is lots of food to go around.
We have plenty of other waters in Alberta where it is C&R and there is lots of pike but average size is poor
Say it all the time balance between forage and predators is what you need if you want trophy fish. If your numbers of predators are too high they grow slower or stunt ending in less big fish
Either way it would be a battle because of the conflict from those who prefer walleye and would go against management’s dream of a walleye fishery they threw time/funds into