Walleye slot size

[Kurt505]

Originally Posted by bobalong

I can't say I have seen published numbers of walleye populations but I would imagine, hope (maybe) that F/W would have a reasonable idea of the populations before they set tag/size allocations for a lake or start transferring walleye from one lake to another.

It would be interesting numbers to know, I did read that Mil Lacs a famous walleye lake in Minnesota had about 3 million.

When a friend was on the sturgeon tagging program a few years back it was estimated there were about 2500 sturgeon from around Drayton to the Sk. border.

That Mille Lacs look about the same size as Calling lake, maybe just a bit bigger, you think it would be safe to say there is probably 2 million in calling lake?

[smitty9]

Can't compare Millie Lacs to Calling. Different latitude, differing forage base, different fishing pressure, different mgmt strategies.

Same size doesn't necessarily mean the comparison is apples to apples.

[Kurt505]

Originally Posted by smitty9

Can't compare Millie Lacs to Calling. Different latitude, differing forage base, different fishing pressure, different mgmt strategies.

Same size doesn't necessarily mean the comparison is apples to apples.

Have you fished it before? What are the regs on walleye at that lake?


BTW, I did give the Benicia of doubt to Milles Lacs, by 1.5mil.

[bobalong]

Originally Posted by smitty9

Can't compare Millie Lacs to Calling. Different latitude, differing forage base, different fishing pressure, different mgmt strategies.

Same size doesn't necessarily mean the comparison is apples to apples.

Definitely a different fishery, I think they have had a 6 fish walleye limit for over 50 years........so it is a real fish factory.

[Kurt505]

Originally Posted by Kurt505

Have you fished it before? What are the regs on walleye at that lake?


BTW, I did give the Benicia of doubt to Milles Lacs, by 1.5mil.

Benicia???? Lol, autocorrect must be set on Spanish

Benefit.