03-18-2013, 02:16 PM
[quote raghorn4][mad]Closed to fishing March 1 though 6 a.m. on the last saturday in april fron the buoy in the south marina up to the second set of inlet baffles!! Your fishing the first set of baffles!![/quote]
[cool][#0000FF]You are looking at an old proclamation. That restriction has been removed in the 2013 regs.
I am sorry to see it go. There will be a terrible harvest of both walleyes and wipers by the "happy harvesters". When the fish swarm up into the running water they are vulnerable to the snagging crowd and a lot of big spawning females will be snagged out. They usually don't get caught legally because they don't actually hit lures much until after the spawn.
Before they put the closure in place there were teams of snaggers that would fish all night...with a couple watching out for DWR officers. They would take home truckloads of snagged walleyes.
I hope DWR targets that area for some increased surveillance. But they are so spread out already that I doubt it will be covered much.
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[cool][#0000FF]You are looking at an old proclamation. That restriction has been removed in the 2013 regs.
I am sorry to see it go. There will be a terrible harvest of both walleyes and wipers by the "happy harvesters". When the fish swarm up into the running water they are vulnerable to the snagging crowd and a lot of big spawning females will be snagged out. They usually don't get caught legally because they don't actually hit lures much until after the spawn.
Before they put the closure in place there were teams of snaggers that would fish all night...with a couple watching out for DWR officers. They would take home truckloads of snagged walleyes.
I hope DWR targets that area for some increased surveillance. But they are so spread out already that I doubt it will be covered much.
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