Heading out to lake erie saturday from IL

[bigfishead]

Well the first day it was cloudy and some drizzle and that was my best day. I should have taken my umbrellas for shade, but I didn't think it would be so calm.

We have a lot of walleye here in the mississippi river if I want to eat any. I do throw most of those back too, but sometimes I will keep a few small ones to eat. There is so much fishing pressure these days that it helps to throw some back. I keep a video camera running a lot of times so that makes it easy to release the big ones. I keep a digital camera too of course.

BTW I was born in ohio and have a lot of relatives that live there that I never see. I bet guys hate fisherman coming from other states so thought I'd throw that in. lol.

[bigfishead]

Here's what I do with the video, this was last year's spring trip:

[Eyezcrazy]

I don't hate fisherman who come here from out of state, they still bring money to our area. I did hate the commercial netters in our waters. I never understood how they could limit sport fisherman to a 4 fish limit in the spring while the netters took millions of pounds. Sport fisherman and charter boats are the life of the Western basin.

[bigfishead]

The netters always bugged me too. I didn't see them out this year, do they still do that?

I guide out some here on the mississippi river and I always ask they they want to release all the fish. But we have a slot limit that makes it hard to catch a keeper anyway. We have to throw back all fish between 20-27" and we are allowed to keep one fish over 27". So we can only keep fish between 15-20". The river really gets a lot of pressure anymore and they even close the dam areas in the winter now because of it. Having said that I caught more big fish yesterday than I did at lake erie on any given day this year, one 28" and two 27".