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03-23-2019, 09:05 AM
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Walleye draw choices a joke. Rant
What a joke the choices are this year.
Pinehurst class B only !
Last year 2 of us had class B
It took us 3 days and well over a hundred walleye caught to fill our tags, they were all to big !
The class A fish in Pinehurst have to out number the Class B by at least 10 : 1
No wonder there are so many poachers around.
This system sucks !
I'm sure there are other lakes choices similar.
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03-23-2019, 09:13 AM
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I hope u don't join those poachers out of anger haha
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03-23-2019, 09:29 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim473
What a joke the choices are this year.
Pinehurst class B only !
Last year 2 of us had class B
It took us 3 days and well over a hundred walleye caught to fill our tags, they were all to big !
The class A fish in Pinehurst have to out number the Class B by at least 10 : 1
No wonder there are so many poachers around.
This system sucks !
I'm sure there are other lakes choices similar.
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Most people on here complain that Alberta is backwards for keeping the “spawners ”. The government changes the regulations to not keep the big ones and people complain about that as well. No win situation !!!
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03-23-2019, 09:41 AM
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The cash grab, fish tax, tag system continues to cause anger and always will.
Pay for a win card
Pay for a licence
Pay to put in for draw
Pay for tags
Pay fine when poorly designed tag falls off
Get your fish taken away.
Better off when you couldn’t keep any.... but not better off than when there were no fish at all.
What do you expect from a Provence on trout welfare? Common sense? Not a chance.
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03-24-2019, 07:03 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Habfan
Most people on here complain that Alberta is backwards for keeping the “spawners ”. The government changes the regulations to not keep the big ones and people complain about that as well. No win situation !!!
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Amen Habfan!
The draw system is a slot limit by any other name that costs you a small amount of $ to participate. If anyone is in favor of keeping the big breeders alive and then complains a lake with no A tags, is misguided. I'm not sure Kim if you like or dislike our keep our bigs ones regs - e.g. 1 over 63, 1 over 50. Feel free to add a comment.
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03-23-2019, 10:49 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim473
What a joke the choices are this year.
Pinehurst class B only !
Last year 2 of us had class B
It took us 3 days and well over a hundred walleye caught to fill our tags, they were all to big !
The class A fish in Pinehurst have to out number the Class B by at least 10 : 1
No wonder there are so many poachers around.
This system sucks !
I'm sure there are other lakes choices similar.
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This might just be the smartest thing they have done in years.This should be the norm for every game fish species, keep some small ones and leave the breeders alone+ you got the excitement of catching over 100 good sized walleye for each small one? sounds like a win to me.
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03-23-2019, 11:44 AM
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It looks like the latest survey shows the proportion of large walleye might be down. Not bad, though. It’s probably good to be proactive and stay on top of the situation.
https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/807c...eport-2018.pdf
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03-23-2019, 12:05 PM
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An hour east of pinehurst is a place called saskatchewan .that's who gets my tourist dollars and licence money. I'm taking my frying pan and a fillet knife and some salt and pepper and flour. Can't wait.
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03-23-2019, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by pikeman06
An hour east of pinehurst is a place called saskatchewan .that's who gets my tourist dollars and licence money. I'm taking my frying pan and a fillet knife and some salt and pepper and flour. Can't wait.
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The effects of the fishing pressure from Alberta spilling into Sask is showing up already. Meadow Lake PP has had to reduce limits due to the pressure and the entire province saw reduced limits a few years ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if the west side of Sask saw more limit reductions soon.
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03-23-2019, 02:08 PM
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Take pictures of the class A fish!
Personally I’d rather C&R 100 class A fish than catch and keep a class B. Yes I enjoy eating fish. But I enjoy catching fish more!
BW
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03-23-2019, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by SamSteele
The effects of the fishing pressure from Alberta spilling into Sask is showing up already. Meadow Lake PP has had to reduce limits due to the pressure and the entire province saw reduced limits a few years ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if the west side of Sask saw more limit reductions soon.
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That's fine with me, I'm not asking for much...give me a 4 lb jack a couple perch in the pail and maybe a wallie if the stars align and I'm good to go. Sitting at a lake like pinehurst or lac la biche and catching nothing but cookie cutter wallies for a weekend or more doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.
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03-24-2019, 07:06 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SamSteele
The effects of the fishing pressure from Alberta spilling into Sask is showing up already. Meadow Lake PP has had to reduce limits due to the pressure and the entire province saw reduced limits a few years ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if the west side of Sask saw more limit reductions soon.
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Maybe they'll give it a name, "The feasting Alberta hordes" or something like that. Like locusts fanning out from our borders 
Seriously though, it will be interested to see if that happens or not.
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03-24-2019, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by pikeman06
An hour east of pinehurst is a place called saskatchewan .that's who gets my tourist dollars and licence money. I'm taking my frying pan and a fillet knife and some salt and pepper and flour. Can't wait.
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Last few years gotta say same here.
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03-26-2019, 04:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim473
What a joke the choices are this year.
Pinehurst class B only !
Last year 2 of us had class B
It took us 3 days and well over a hundred walleye caught to fill our tags, they were all to big !
The class A fish in Pinehurst have to out number the Class B by at least 10 : 1
No wonder there are so many poachers around.
This system sucks !
I'm sure there are other lakes choices similar.
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Head over to besnard lake in saskabush....walleye heaven....awesome shore lunches too!
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