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Well, I have been fishing the lake for near 60 years too and have seen some of the same. The walleye population was pretty low, but not from starvation. It was from pollution and overharvest.

The...

The fish are all getting plenty to eat. Have you cleaned a walleye and seen all the fat within? Western Basin Perch have continued to have above the 30-year average hatches with good survival into...

Icing perch will also keep the red worms from burrowing out of the abdomen into the fillets as the fish dies.

I agree with your observations and have written articles supporting "boat limits" but I was just pointing out that the law doesn't presently allow it. However, having a wife on board reading or...

Sorry Buckeyezip and everyone who believes his theory- Cooley Farms is correct. The DOW does not recognize boat limits as the legal method of counting daily bag limits. In fact, I know of a fisherman...

A couple of pictures showing the ice on Feb. 27.

Catawba Island State Park ramp- notice the open water beyond the crack

Mouse Island to Green/South Bass Islands open water67216722

Plan A for the place to start is to thoroughly try in various spots around the green can just outside the launch area before moving on to Plan B.

When I retired from OSU, I tried for 2 years to continue by renting a house each winter, but we didn't get ice. It is too expensive and logistically difficult to run my business model without living...

The shells in the walleye stomachs could also be what's left from the goby's stomachs after the walleyes digest the rest of their meal of these common island-area prey items.

Regarding color,...

I spent over 30 years professionally engaged in multiple fisheries studies and running ice charters on Lake Erie and have opened and checked thousands of walleye stomachs. I never saw mussels in any...

A picture would be most helpful, but I am guessing that with this high water temperature, you may be seeing individual disarticulated vertebrae from whatever bait fish they ate. If not, perhaps the...