Quote Originally Posted by airshot View Post
Yep, I hear all of you and everything you all have said is true, but I would like to add something else. Has anyone else noticed the explosion of sheephead, white bass and white perch? Well I have and guess what....they eat the same thing as the walleye and perch. Everyone who catches these including commercial fisherman just through them back and their numbers are growing at an alarming rate. If everyone would not return them to the lake or if you do make sure they will not eat or spawn again how much more food will there be for our sport fish? If their is plenty of food you will have plenty of sportfish. Fishing pressure thru 80's and 90's removed a good portion of our sportfishing stock and these were replaced by sheephead etc. We can help our destiny cause Lord knows the government won't, by severly reducing the number of rough fish and keep food sources for the sport fish.

Airshot
I sort of agree with you on this. I have heard some on here say it is unethical to kill the sheephead, my question is, is it legal? I do agree that these forage fish are taking food from the game fish and eating eggs as well. But, what I really think would help the walleye population is if the netters were pushed out of the Western basin, ESPECIALLY the reef area during the spawn for Gods sake! How can they reduce the take for sportsman yet allow nets in these critical areas at spawn time? Come on ODNR get with the program while we still have a chance. That is, until the Asian Carp get here then it's all over anyway.