Quote Originally Posted by Ted View Post
Here we go, she's going to ice over. Will there be any open water ice fishing on the Western basin? What does a nice icing do for the for the spawn and the fish population in general?
With the extended forecast there is no chance for open lake ice becoming thick enough. And it is to late in the season to have any chance also. I don't know how the spawn success will be, but feel it will probably be OK. That is not the problem, getting them thru their first season will be. There are a ton of walleyes in the lake right now that are turning 1 year old and they will raise hell with the fry and fingerlings this year! Those yearlings are ravenous so I personally do not look for a successful recruitment of the 2016 spawn. I feel the late summer early fall trawls will reveal a well below average recruitment.