Red Fleet walleye

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And thats one of the problems with our slow to react DWR. The Walleye at Yuba got big. Too big. But the rules never changed. When the Walleye got big, they ate everything. You could only keep one over twenty inches. I had many days where I would catch fifteen Eyes and only five would be under the slot. Changing slot limits would let fishermen control the numbers of big fish and keep more bigger Perch in the lake. Of course it still would have crashed.The Perch couldnt spawn on dry land, but the DWR has to take a proactive approach to management and change rules quickly in a lake with toothy predators. Something that will never happen in a state where politics trump management.
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