Can anyone chime in ?

[wakina]

I was reading another forum today and this was posted(check the link). I can't find this magazine (In-Fisherman 2012 Walleye Guide ) locally so I cannot confirm it. I will try to find it in another town on Monday. So if anyone can chime in please do so!! If any guest has read this Magazine article I am inviting you as one Walleye fisherman to another that you please register and share that information with our community. You are more than welcome on this site as a member and any contribution that you may make would be greatly appreciated!

http://www.ohiogamefishing.com/commu...d.php?t=190999



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[Bryan]

Well that is good news.
One of my good friends works at the OSU Stone Lab on Gibralter at Put In Bay, I'll ask him and see what he's heard.

[gregnwtf]

Well that is good news.
One of my good friends works at the OSU Stone Lab on Gibralter at Put In Bay, I'll ask him and see what he's heard.

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.

[wakina]

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

[half pole]

I agree. We caught little walleye I think every perch trip this fall. I do remember 1 day catching 13 little spikes in about a 3 hour perch trip. All I can say is hope for the best.

[wakina]

Here is a link that says what the state thinks, but it is only half complete just like it was in 2010 when they released it. Then had to revise the numbers up to an almost average hatch after completing the second half of the trawls!

http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/enew...6/Default.aspx

[rscotfish]

hope its true the 2003 class has been supporting the westernbasin a long time and they are getting old sure would be nice.we caught undersize fish while perch fishing. but when the 2003 class was under the 15 inch size we were catching 50 a day trolling was hard to get the bigger fish because the little ones would not leave our lures alone. there was days when we would handle 100s of fish to keep a 4 man limit. so we will see next year would be great

[mkalink]

The reports I heard about the trawls the DNR did in August. Which is where they get the numbers to determine what kind of hatch we had. The numbers were low and the hatch is being considered poor. They did see good #'s in July's trawls but the hatch is determined from the August trawls. The good news is the 2010 hatch was average and we will be catching a lot of them this year in the 16" to 18" class plus there are still a lot of pigs left from the 2003 hatch.

[wakina]

The reports I heard about the trawls the DNR did in August. Which is where they get the numbers to determine what kind of hatch we had. The numbers were low and the hatch is being considered poor. They did see good #'s in July's trawls but the hatch is determined from the August trawls. The good news is the 2010 hatch was average and we will be catching a lot of them this year in the 16" to 18" class plus there are still a lot of pigs left from the 2003 hatch.

Here is the ODNR's official release about the trawls and when they took place, there is no mention of any July trawls only the ones that took place in August they didn't even use the trawls that were to have taken place in late Sept/early Oct. to make their official 2011 hatch estimate, if they did use them they didn't mention them in the article as being used! Read the article in the provided link as they have apparently changed the times for the test trawls.

http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/enew...6/Default.aspx

In 2010 they did the same thing but then made a correction to their estimate that was released in August 2010 from trawls that had took place in July and then used the August trawls to adjust the earlier estimate. This information can be found in the 2 links posted below.


http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/discuss/...ic,1325.0.html


http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/discuss/...ic,1337.0.html

[Eyezcrazy]

[QUOTE=wakina;18345]I was reading another forum today and this was posted(check the link). I can't find this magazine (In-Fisherman 2012 Walleye Guide ) locally so I cannot confirm it. I will try to find it in another town on Monday. So if anyone can chime in please do so!! If any guest has read this Magazine article I am inviting you as one Walleye fisherman to another that you please register and share that information with our community. You are more than welcome on this site as a member and any contribution that you may make would be greatly appreciated!


Wakina, were you able to locate this magazine?
You can buy a copy here if you haven't found one yet.

https://store.intermediaoutdoors.com...-Walleye-Guide

Maybe there is a contact for the author?