I haven't caught a single walleye yet this season, and I can tell you have NEVER happened in the 30+ years I've had a boat on the lake. I really believe a lot of the problem is the big winds we had in the spring, the monsoon rains have lifted silt in the rivers that have washed into the lake all contributing to poor fishing.

One thing that I learned when talking to an old timer that has spent more time on the lake than I've been alive is he thinks the netters this year put their nets in prime walleye spawning areas. The commercial guys can't keep the walleyes they net but they end up killing most if not all of them they get in their nets. The walleyes spawned late, the netters had their nets in the shallow water the walleyes normally spawn in, they catch and throw back a whole lot of walleyes that we are seeing floating.

The weather can't be controlled and I don't believe the weather has a lot to do with fish kills, however, I didn't realize that the netters had their nets in spawning areas. How can this be legal? Does anyone have any idea how many walleye were caught in nets this year as compared to other years?

We had the horrible spring weather, netters killing walleyes caught in their nets, and now we have the mayflies coming out. Geez I may not catch any walleyes the way things are going!

Russ