mille lac to close sept 6

[shefland]

http://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/4100341-dnr-close-mille-lacs-walleye-fishing-season-next-month

[MattNy]

This doesn’t surprise me one bit…….I think we all knew this was going to Happen!

"LET ER BUCK"

[moose-hunter]

Gov. Goofy caves in AGAIN! What a shocker!!

[BuckSutherland]

Mille Lacs is just a preview of what’s to come for all of our natural resources with this pathetic DNR leading the charge.

Still nobody has lost their job over this fiasco, just like when they watched the deer herd crater to a 40 year low. They have no clue what the hell they are doing in the woods or on the water.

[fishnpole]

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[Science]

It is good that they have decided to shut the lake down even if it was a little late. I hope in the future both sides stick to their quota.

[Gunder2]

Did they comment on if its shutdown through end of November?

[leechlaker]

Science wrote:
It is good that they have decided to shut the lake down even if it was a little late. I hope in the future both sides stick to their quota.

Good to see one sensible comment in here, anyway. I am no fan of Dayton, but he did the right thing here. There are a couple of really strong year classes in Mille Lacs…keep the pressure off them, let them grow and create more walleyes. Nothing wrong with this at all.

Next on the docket should be moving the possession limit to 3 fish, and either removing or really rethinking the slot limit to avoid skewing the size structure towards big fish. I assume everyone here is aware of the research that shows that the primary predators of young walleye are large walleye and pike (in that order).

Three fish with one over 20″ or something would be a sensible path, IMO.

[Bandersnatch]

leechlaker wrote:

Science wrote:
It is good that they have decided to shut the lake down even if it was a little late. I hope in the future both sides stick to their quota.

Good to see one sensible comment in here, anyway. I am no fan of Dayton, but he did the right thing here. There are a couple of really strong year classes in Mille Lacs…keep the pressure off them, let them grow and create more walleyes. Nothing wrong with this at all.

Next on the docket should be moving the possession limit to 3 fish, and either removing or really rethinking the slot limit to avoid skewing the size structure towards big fish. I assume everyone here is aware of the research that shows that the primary predators of young walleye are large walleye and pike (in that order).

Three fish with one over 20″ or something would be a sensible path, IMO.

1) He only posted that to stir the pot.

2) How do you correlate your wished for Slot with your Post? If the year classes need pressure taken off of them, and the larger Walleye are what really DO put that pressure on, then common sense would dictate that if there is going to be ANY SLOT at all, the slot should be do reduce the Larger Walleye to slow the predation.

3 fish, all over 24″ or you can make bank that we will be in the very same pickle in a couple of years.

JMO

[Ripjiggen]

Yes Gunder shutdown through November. Dec 1st will be the new season.
A three fish limit is a long way away in my opinion. Not going to go from shutting it down to three fish in the next year or two. If the tribes have anything to say about it which they do their will never be a three fish limit. The gov folded under pressure from the feds because they know they will lose in court and they will push for even more treaty rights. It is just sad to see this lake managed politically and have nothing to do with managing it scientifically.

[Anonymous]

What a joke the whole thing is and after 26 years of being on Mille lacs I’m done and moving my camp somewhere that don’t get raped and pillaged by !!

[snow]

quote by leechlaker:

“Next on the docket should be moving the possession limit to 3 fish, and either removing or really rethinking the slot limit to avoid skewing the size structure towards big fish. I assume everyone here is aware of the research that shows that the primary predators of young walleye are large walleye and pike (in that order”

We know the primary predators of mille lacs leech…Its the gill netters,pull the nets and look what happens,2 banner year walleyes.

In these days and age do the natives need to hunt fish and gather when they’re busting at the seems with federal funds and casino monies? Hell No!

It baffels me why we non natives that generate over 100million $ each year paying taxes and license buying and then we are regulated just so the tribes can continue to pilage mille lacs each spring,way past due to cut the cord,no more federal monies and might as well setup toll booths at the casino’s enterance as well.And now the state wants to build a fishery and start stocking the lake while the natives sit back and wait for us to fix the problem just like red lake! BS.

[WalleyeChaser]

from the article from OP:

“Latest creel survey data indicated 45,276 pounds killed so far this year as of Aug. 15, well over the state’s 28,600 pound allocation. The open water season was catch and release in order to conserve walleye, but anglers exceeded the limit anyway via “hooking mortality” or the inadvertent killing of fish through hooking and handling them.”

Does this seem hilarious to anyone else? Can hooking mortality really contribute this much?

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