In response to the Canadian Commercial Fishing, I know this is one problem with the walleye. I sold my boat about 3 years ago and had a fellow from Canada call me about it. While we were talking he was asking me about our fish limits. He asked me about our penalties and when I told him there could be jail time, heavy fines and seizure of your boat and vehicle, he laughed and said thats what they needed to do in Canada. He said that a commercial fisherman in his hometown had went to Court that week for being almost a thousand fish over and was fined under a thousand dollars and that was it. That was just pennies compared to his profit. He and others are not going to be worried if they are just slapped on the wrist. But back to the fishing concerns, I too think the bad spring we had this year has something to do with the tough fishing, but as I said I have noticed it dropping off yearly for the last 4 years, and not just with our walleye but perch too. I hope I am wrong but I also hope someone is doing some testing before its to late.