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I must say the more I read the more I am becoming disapointed. When I moved away from Big Spirit I was hopeing to find a good fisherie over here. Not sounding too good. Not much for drillin holes but love getting the boat out. When is typical ice out on CL??
I will add my 2 cents I guess. Just last year I talked to the Iowa DNR as they where all eating at the China Buffet one day. I asked them what happened with the walleye population? They didn't admit that it got over fished, but they did admit "that they want all of the walleyes to be fished out of Clear Lake" its evidently there goal somehow? Maybe revenue??? And he proceeded to tell me the number of fries being introduced into the lake, and that there was a lot of 12-13 inch eyes in there and that the next year would be better somehow....Well its next year, but what happened, its a widely fished lake I think... and I agree with the other gentleman we need to talk to the DNR and open the lines of communication here. Ask them what happened with our how many dollar dredging project? But its not all gloom and doom, yes we all can fish other places, I recently have been fishing other places, its to bad to with the gas prices the way they are, I dropped 50 bones on gas just to fish 2 hours away, but its a beautiful lake with perch, eyes, and crappies... So there are places, just have to explore more, wish I had people to car pool with for the bigger better lakes out there....
Struggled to catch fish tonight, but ended up with enough yellows for fish tacos. Threw quite a few little ones back and missed a lot of fish. I did better on gulp minnows than spikes, but I never really had fish biting well. I just had a few here and a few there. The vex had fish on the screen 80% of the time, but not a lot of biters. As far as the walleyes go, I'll throw my 2 cents in and say I think it is a little short sighted to blame the DNR and the yellows. The problem I see is fishermen taking too many fish out in a very short period of time. There were a lot of fish taken out in 05-07, and many were snagged or taken over the creel limit. It's a shame that the walleyes declined so quickly, but we honestly have no one to blame but ourselves. I'm sure this will anger a lot of folks, but it's what I believe.