Goose Lake Mqt. County

[referee]

Anyone have any info on fish population rebound on this lake? Had a severe algae bloom and fish dieoff some years ago...never see anyone out there.

[Bigdee29]

Gotta fish it before June. But it usually sucks

[mellowfellow777]

I pulled a 29" walleye outta there May 15th

[referee]

Hope it is back in there to breed....

[ER1993]

Hope it is back in there to breed....

Who cares if it isnt?

He has just as much right to keep it as he does to throw it back!!!

[referee]

Yes he does have that right. If he wants it for the wall, then a replica can be done. If he wants to dine on it, just my opinion that it would be more useful producing hundreds more walleyes than being turned into a turd.

[Prehnite44]

Yes he does have that right. If he wants it for the wall, then a replica can be done. If he wants to dine on it, just my opinion that it would be more useful producing hundreds more walleyes than being turned into a turd.

To each his own...It could just as easily die during a winter kill or get gut hooked and break another angler's line as it could produce 1000's more walleyes. I've both eaten and released big fish.

[Pil#7]

Big stink over a fish that probably wasn't caught.  Because the Feds went in there and  pretty much killed the rest of the fish in there with there chemicals to get the levels of the lake back in whack.   The only fish that were not totally affected were the numerous amounts of bullhead in there ..   So he got a big walleye and on the Fourth of July I caught a bull shark in there then .

[PerchPopper50]

He has the right to keep it...I wouldn't eat it what with all the mine runoff history in that lake. I've caught a handful of walters out of there but nothing to right home about. Some dinkers and a few legals over the last two years. as far as what they has tossed in there.....her ya go apparently 22,000 fingerlings last July.
                                http://www.michigandnr.com/fishstock/default.asp

[mellowfellow777]

the story was a bit incomplete...the walleye was caught on 5-15-2003 at 10:30pm fishing from the railroad tracks.

[big bobber]

Yes he does have that right. If he wants it for the wall, then a replica can be done. If he wants to dine on it, just my opinion that it would be more useful producing hundreds more walleyes than being turned into a turd.

i dont think the dining would be very good even if this is true...i sure wouldnt eat anything out of goose lake for awhile even if there are fish there....we used to go there every year for wally opener and the fishing was always good...big perch/wallys...but i think those days are past...

[lipripper89]

The people who say "if I dont keep it someone else will or it will die", are the same people who keep most of the fish they catch year after year and then when the fishing in the lake starts to suck they say, "hey, whered all the fish go?". Prime example, Garden Bay, BBDN. Fantastic perch fishing for years. Then we get an early ice out in 2012 and theres 60 boats at the state launch each day of the weekend, everyone is getting good catches of big healthy perch and keeping them. Then the perch fishing sucks for the next two years and everyone is wondering why? The reason why is all those fish were stuffed with eggs and they were taken out along with their eggs and almost no spawning took place in comparison to previous years where the bad ice protected them during the spawn from these people. Anyone who claims to be a serious fisherman needs to learn catch and release on true trophy fish and get replicas if they want a mount. If you wanna eat some fish just keep they fish that are over the legal size and below trophy size. Larger fish do make more fish than smaller fish, and have a higher rate of success when they spawn due to their ability to defend beds and experience.

[UPFishbucket]

I see no problem in keeping a trophy fish to be mounted, its only 1 fish and takes most people many years to catch that trophy size fish for the wall.  The problem I see is the people that keep the big but not quite trophies to eat, such as perch like you said, If people keep 20 or 30 12-13  inch jumbos there is a hell of lot more eggs being removed from the system than one 15 inch perch. Just my 2 cents

[ER1993]

Its called greed. We have all been there at one point or another.

[UPFishbucket]

Exactly, i'm guilty of it on the rare occasions i've gotten onto a good bite lol