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Looks like that spot won't be so good next year.
I agree That's a lot of breeders
Nice. kinda disapponted you kept that many large pike i keep maybe one pike a year im a strong believer in catch photo release sorry if i offend anybody but just my opinion im sure im not the pnly one that feels this way but congrats on a good day though i guess
We were under the supervision of lake champlain's biologist bernie (If i remember his name correctly) and game warden nevertheless, they both said keeping these do NOTHING to the stocks... Seeing as one fish can lay 50-60 THOUSAND eggs. Taking 5-6 females won't do much to an already large populated stock... Fishing has enough rules and regulations to control populations, we followed the rules, caught our limits, kept fish we deemed keepable and or too injured or tired to put back. We took a hit on some fish, put a lot of large females back. Some people don't work during the winter and some families need to eat. This is what we set out to do this weekend. Catch some great fish have a great time and put dinner on the tableThank youIt used to be when you came home with a boat load of fish people would cheer and congratulate you and beg to know where you've fishedNow if you come home with a boat load of fish they look at you and say well why did you go and do that...
I would worry more about the pollution killing our fish and not 15 tip up lines in the water...
Like bailbuster said it really was a 500 square foot area we happened to fall upon. One other group was a having a decent time but fish and game said nothing like what we were having. Thank you so much for the support guys that was the whole point of sharing our success... I want to promote fishing on lake champlain... Not to be bashed for keeping 15 pike when we could of legally could of kept 20 and being blamed for emptying lake champlain of future pike reserves...There are THOUSAND UPON THOUSANDS maybe even millions of fish in lake champlain,I would worry more about the pollution killing our fish and not 15 tip up lines in the water...
sorry 500 square yards ! yeah this was on campbles bay a couple miles out.