Ice Fishing 2014-2015 Season

**[email protected]** · 10-25-2014, 09:49 PM

Ive never been but I have a boat dock on the western basin would love to go this year just need to go with someone with some knowledge. I stay in toledo

**troy1976** · 10-26-2014, 10:40 AM

count me in matt. i only been on lake once during the hard water season. would like to try some more

**fishin2** · 10-26-2014, 10:50 AM

I'm in, gonna be a big city if everyone that reads this joins in, nothing like a hot Italian sausage with kraut on the ice, biscuits and gravy not bad either !!Mike

**half pole** · 10-26-2014, 05:19 PM

I'm in also

**Firetiger** · 10-29-2014, 03:53 AM

Originally Posted by troy1976

count me in matt. i only been on lake once during the hard water season. would like to try some more

Troy was that you at the clelands with the clam in the back of the truck already?

**wayne johnson** · 10-30-2014, 06:09 PM

Yes it was troy, he was dropping off this new shantie to CAPT.. Mike this makes shantie No. 16 ready to go for this upcoming season, we also have seven sleds ready to taxi any one out again this season. Hopefully some one will top our first mate Mike king 15 lb walleye weight on a cert. scale, caught less than two miles off shore, with no one around us. Picture of this hog is on Reel Sport Charter LLC under ice fishing guide 2014.
Lets pray for ice.
Capt. Mike Reel Sport Charters, Your four season licensed guide
Reel Sport charters LLC
Reel Sport charters LLC _ Marblehead Ohio
419 265 2736

**Madd Matt** · 11-02-2014, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by wayne johnson

Yes it was troy, he was dropping off this new shantie to CAPT.. Mike this makes shantie No. 16 ready to go for this upcoming season, we also have seven sleds ready to taxi any one out again this season. Hopefully some one will top our first mate Mike king 15 lb walleye weight on a cert. scale, caught less than two miles off shore, with no one around us. Picture of this hog is on Reel Sport Charter LLC under ice fishing guide 2014.
Lets pray for ice.
Capt. Mike Reel Sport Charters, Your four season licensed guide
Reel Sport charters LLC
Reel Sport charters LLC _ Marblehead Ohio
419 265 2736

15Lbs!!!! Oh my goodness! You didn't keep it did you? Just think of all those eggs and future walleye that you killed. How dare you catch such a big fat female fish? You should be banned from fishing walleye for the rest of your life.

There are an estimated 20-30 million walleye age 2 and older in the Lake. Taking into account that a 30" + walleye has less than 20% of her eggs fertile enough to produce fry, and that she probably has roughly 100,000 eggs, that would mean that 20,000 eggs are actually fertile in that fish. Then, approximately 20% of those will actually be fertilized by a male, that gives us about 4,000 eggs from that fish will hatch. COnsidering that about 1 in 10,000 hatched fry will survive to adulthood....

For every one of those fish that you keep, you are actually killing 4/10ths of another fish, or for every 4 of those that you keep you are actually killing an additional 1.6 future fish.

According to that math, if you limit in the Winter with all really big fat females (4 man limit) then you are doing less (killing 5.6 fish) to impact the walleye population than if you go out later in the year and catch 6 post spawn fish.

But wait, some of those 6 fish you catch later that aren't currently pregnant, would be pregnant later in the year, so it is the same as catching them with or without eggs then, right?

PS - Sorry, I couldn't resist... I figure someone is bound to bring this up sooner of later in an ice fishing forum. All tongue & cheek of course!

-Matt

**ICEFREAK89** · 11-19-2014, 11:22 PM

Are you ripping on the mike guy Because you are jealous of his fish....did you not know that lake Eire has the best walleye fishing in the world...wonder how that happens...not from guys keeping a once in life time fish QUIT HATING

**wakina** · 11-19-2014, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by ICEFREAK89

Are you ripping on the mike guy Because you are jealous of his fish....did you not know that lake Eire has the best walleye fishing in the world...wonder how that happens...not from guys keeping a once in life time fish QUIT HATING

I don't think Madd Matt was ripping on anybody but was being sarcastic about all of the bitching by those who would impose their personal beliefs on the rest of us. Beliefs that are contrary to the ODNR laws that cover the size and possession limit of Lake Erie walleyes.

Every year people try to berate the actions of lawful fishermen who keep legally caught fish. Their argument is with the ODNR who sets the rules and not the legal fishermen who abide by them.

**Madd Matt** · 11-20-2014, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by wakina

I don't think Madd Matt was ripping on anybody but was being sarcastic about all of the bitching by those who would impose their personal beliefs on the rest of us. Beliefs that are contrary to the ODNR laws that cover the size and possession limit of Lake Erie walleyes.

Every year people try to berate the actions of lawful fishermen who keep legally caught fish. Their argument is with the ODNR who sets the rules and not the legal fishermen who abide by them.

Lol. Thanks Wakina! I appreciate the support. I believe that even Mike knew that it was complete sarcasm, apparent in his follow-up post. I would not attack someone in here like that in a serious manner... I leave that kind of interaction for the dock.

By the way, how could I be jealous of a trophy fish when it was a female full of eggs?

-Matt