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I was reading another forum today and this was posted(check the link). I can't find this magazine (In-Fisherman 2012 Walleye Guide ) locally so I cannot confirm it. I will try to find it in another town on Monday. So if anyone can chime in please do so!! If any guest has read this Magazine article I am inviting you as one Walleye fisherman to another that you please register and share that information with our community. You are more than welcome on this site as a member and any contribution that you may make would be greatly appreciated!

http://www.ohiogamefishing.com/commu...d.php?t=190999



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Well that is good news.
One of my good friends works at the OSU Stone Lab on Gibralter at Put In Bay, I'll ask him and see what he's heard.

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Originally Posted by Bryan

Well that is good news.
One of my good friends works at the OSU Stone Lab on Gibralter at Put In Bay, I'll ask him and see what he's heard.

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I guess I will have to check some of my older posts and see if I said the same thing awhile back. I hope the studies are true from the magazine. I will have to read that, then make a few phone calls to see if the story holds water. As for the people I have talked to over the last few months, it is all making the right sense. Lets all keep our fingers crossed thats its all true. Charter captains conference is in 6 weeks and I should have a good idea from the info given out on that day. I will try to pass on any viable info to put the rumors to rest.

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Originally Posted by gregnwtf

I guess I will have to check some of my older posts and see if I said the same thing awhile back. I hope the studies are true from the magazine. I will have to read that, then make a few phone calls to see if the story holds water. As for the people I have talked to over the last few months, it is all making the right sense. Lets all keep our fingers crossed thats its all true. Charter captains conference is in 6 weeks and I should have a good idea from the info given out on that day. I will try to pass on any viable info to put the rumors to rest.

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Here is link to a thread from Jan 1, 2012 that has your observation as well as mine about the hatch for 2011. There were lots of YOY walleyes caught by perch fishermen this past fall, also the minnow netters had their problems with them while netting bait for the perch fishermen! Hopefully things are better than what showed up in the ODNR trawls this fall. Based upon my observations and reports from my friends it is hard for me to believe the walleye hatch was as poor as they claimed it to be.

http://community.walleye.com/showthread.php?t=3755

I agree. We caught little walleye I think every perch trip this fall. I do remember 1 day catching 13 little spikes in about a 3 hour perch trip. All I can say is hope for the best.

Here is a link that says what the state thinks, but it is only half complete just like it was in 2010 when they released it. Then had to revise the numbers up to an almost average hatch after completing the second half of the trawls!

http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/enew...6/Default.aspx

Lake Erie Western Basin: Until the spring of 2011, Erie's western basin hadn't seen a productive spawning season since 2003. Biologists know that strong year classes like the one in 2003 are rare. WEATHER CONDITIONS WERE IDEAL and the spring of 2011 appers to have produced another banner year class to bouy the fishery for years to come. That's great news for anglers who target walleyes at ports including Monroe, Luna Pier, and Toledo.

Lake Erie Central Basin: What's good for the Western basin of Lake Erie is also good for the Central basin. The huge 2011 year class also occured in many parts of the central basin. BIOLOGIST ESTIMATE IT COULD BE THE LARGEST IN LAKE ERIE HISTORY. Walleyes that spawn in the western basin travel through the central basin during spring and fall. These transient and resident fish make for easy pickings at popular ports including Port Clinton, Huron, and Lorain.


It would be nice if they wrer right. Not what I had heard previously though.

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Lake Erie Western Basin: Until the spring of 2011, Erie's western basin hadn't seen a productive spawning season since 2003. Biologists know that strong year classes like the one in 2003 are rare. WEATHER CONDITIONS WERE IDEAL and the spring of 2011 appers to have produced another banner year class to bouy the fishery for years to come. That's great news for anglers who target walleyes at ports including Monroe, Luna Pier, and Toledo.

Lake Erie Central Basin: What's good for the Western basin of Lake Erie is also good for the Central basin. The huge 2011 year class also occured in many parts of the central basin. BIOLOGIST ESTIMATE IT COULD BE THE LARGEST IN LAKE ERIE HISTORY. Walleyes that spawn in the western basin travel through the central basin during spring and fall. These transient and resident fish make for easy pickings at popular ports including Port Clinton, Huron, and Lorain.

It would be nice if they wrer right. Not what I had heard previously though.

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I personally believe the 2011 walleye hatch survial was and is better than what the test trawls indicate. But there is no way that I feel the 2011 hatch and survival rate was or is the "LARGEST IN LAKE ERIE HISTORY" Probably more like 2010 which turned out much better than the trawls indicated at first. I felt this way, long before this article became available. I don't believe the ODNR would be keeping this a secret if the hatch was that great!!!
check link!

http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/discuss/...ic,1337.0.html

Just throwing this out there if this is true could the reported high hatch be related to the low number of people fishing in the spring of 2011 due to weather conditions?

Kevin

hope its true the 2003 class has been supporting the westernbasin a long time and they are getting old sure would be nice.we caught undersize fish while perch fishing. but when the 2003 class was under the 15 inch size we were catching 50 a day trolling was hard to get the bigger fish because the little ones would not leave our lures alone. there was days when we would handle 100s of fish to keep a 4 man limit. so we will see next year would be great

The reports I heard about the trawls the DNR did in August. Which is where they get the numbers to determine what kind of hatch we had. The numbers were low and the hatch is being considered poor. They did see good #'s in July's trawls but the hatch is determined from the August trawls. The good news is the 2010 hatch was average and we will be catching a lot of them this year in the 16" to 18" class plus there are still a lot of pigs left from the 2003 hatch.

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The reports I heard about the trawls the DNR did in August. Which is where they get the numbers to determine what kind of hatch we had. The numbers were low and the hatch is being considered poor. They did see good #'s in July's trawls but the hatch is determined from the August trawls. The good news is the 2010 hatch was average and we will be catching a lot of them this year in the 16" to 18" class plus there are still a lot of pigs left from the 2003 hatch.

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Here is the ODNR's official release about the trawls and when they took place, there is no mention of any July trawls only the ones that took place in August they didn't even use the trawls that were to have taken place in late Sept/early Oct. to make their official 2011 hatch estimate, if they did use them they didn't mention them in the article as being used! Read the article in the provided link as they have apparently changed the times for the test trawls.

http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/enew...6/Default.aspx

In 2010 they did the same thing but then made a correction to their estimate that was released in August 2010 from trawls that had took place in July and then used the August trawls to adjust the earlier estimate. This information can be found in the 2 links posted below.


http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/discuss/...ic,1325.0.html


http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/discuss/...ic,1337.0.html

[QUOTE=wakina;18345]I was reading another forum today and this was posted(check the link). I can't find this magazine (In-Fisherman 2012 Walleye Guide ) locally so I cannot confirm it. I will try to find it in another town on Monday. So if anyone can chime in please do so!! If any guest has read this Magazine article I am inviting you as one Walleye fisherman to another that you please register and share that information with our community. You are more than welcome on this site as a member and any contribution that you may make would be greatly appreciated!


Wakina, were you able to locate this magazine?
You can buy a copy here if you haven't found one yet.

https://store.intermediaoutdoors.com...-Walleye-Guide

Maybe there is a contact for the author?

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I was reading another forum today and this was posted(check the link). I can't find this magazine (In-Fisherman 2012 Walleye Guide ) locally so I cannot confirm it. I will try to find it in another town on Monday. So if anyone can chime in please do so!! If any guest has read this Magazine article I am inviting you as one Walleye fisherman to another that you please register and share that information with our community. You are more than welcome on this site as a member and any contribution that you may make would be greatly appreciated!


Wakina, were you able to locate this magazine?
You can buy a copy here if you haven't found one yet.

https://store.intermediaoutdoors.com...-Walleye-Guide

Maybe there is a contact for the author?

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Been to 3 different towns with no luck. Thanks for the link!

Ordered the mag and intend to find out where they got their Info at! Not good if the article is ******** and they sell this magazine nationwide as being the truth.