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LOTW gone/going down hill

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CrappiePerchDude:
2024 experience out of Ballards shows just ‘okay’ fishing.   This year has been jacked up for sure weather wise - but fish weren’t plentiful or large.   It’s still a great experience if you’re not expecting a trophy walleye every other day.   


Just too damn many people fishing and harvesting - not that anyone asked my opinion…..

FrozenTRD:
"Just too damn many people fishing and harvesting"

This is what I wonder about...and with the advances in electronics, sleeper houses (= more hours of fishing), bigger boats (= can handle bigger and rougher waters); how much pressure can fish handle (not just LOTW)?

Shepbc:
We fishing out of Arnesen's Rocky Point Resort last week (Monday - Wednesday) and did real well.  We got walleye, sauger, perch, burbot, pike and tullibee in around 30 - 35 feet of water. Our catch included 1 walleye and 1 pike that were above the slot limits and some huge perch. Our best baits included: 1/4 - 3/8 oz buckshot spoons (super glo goldfish - glows pink on the back & super glo fire tiger - glows chartreuse on the back - baited with 1/2 a minnow), VMC Tingler Spoons (pink and gold) baited with 1/2 a minnow, Lindy Glow Spoon (1/4 oz. - Pink Scale) baited with 1/2 a minnow, and dead sticks with (#8 trebles with 2 - 8mm glow beads or pink #4 Gamakatsu octopus hooks both baited with live minnows) under slip bobbers. We found out that the rattle baits sometimes scared the fish away so we did more bottom bouncing & tapping than hard jigging. Most of the time our jigging spoons were 2 - 6 inches off the bottom and our dead sticks were about 12 inches off bottom.  We had warm weather but (mid to upper 30s) still fished on 20 - 22 inches of ice in heater ice houses.  We hear that the weather is getting colder there this week so they should be building ice again soon.

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