Quote Originally Posted by gregnwtf View Post
I guess I will have to check some of my older posts and see if I said the same thing awhile back. I hope the studies are true from the magazine. I will have to read that, then make a few phone calls to see if the story holds water. As for the people I have talked to over the last few months, it is all making the right sense. Lets all keep our fingers crossed thats its all true. Charter captains conference is in 6 weeks and I should have a good idea from the info given out on that day. I will try to pass on any viable info to put the rumors to rest.
Here is link to a thread from Jan 1, 2012 that has your observation as well as mine about the hatch for 2011. There were lots of YOY walleyes caught by perch fishermen this past fall, also the minnow netters had their problems with them while netting bait for the perch fishermen! Hopefully things are better than what showed up in the ODNR trawls this fall. Based upon my observations and reports from my friends it is hard for me to believe the walleye hatch was as poor as they claimed it to be.

http://community.walleye.com/showthread.php?t=3755