Here is a quote from hageman.2 a member of OGF and can be found on OGF, hageman.2 was a biologist at Gibraltar for Ohio Sea Grants Stone Lab and has retired from there. He still writes for a couple of outdoor publications and is well connected with the ODNR.

Quote"Just using Ohio's trawl average number of walleyes per hectare (2.47 acres), since Ontario hasn't released their numbers, it was 155.62 in 2003, 19.64 last year (2014) and 61.47 this year (2015). The combined Ohio/Ontario hatch number averaged 30.75 last year (2014).

So depending upon where Ontario's numbers land, it could be 2 tor 3 times greater than last year, but a far cry from 2003. The catchable numbers of 2 year old fish will be worked on by the biologists from both sides of the line to come up with a projection of future populations and next year's Total Allowable Catch. This will all be announced at the Lake Erie Committee meetings in March." Unquote, Emphasis mine!

As you can see by the difference in the numbers from Ohio to Ontario in last years YOY walleye recruitment, those numbers show that Ontario can and does hold allot of YOY walleyes that were most likely hatched in Ohio waters of Lake Erie and its tributaries but had migrated there by the time the trawls were conducted.

Here is the link and the post can be read at reply #24.

http://www.ohiogamefishing.com/threa....286903/page-2