Congratulations to the lucky angler! What a giant!
Kind of feel bad for the guy. He’ll never enjoy a peaceful day of fishing again, what with all the walleye groupies following him around squealing, throwing their undergarments in his boat and trying to have his babies.
I don’t think more are necessarily being fooled, its just that there is more of them in the system so your chances increase. Most people I know seem to have caught their largest walleye in the last three years or so between the Missouri and Sak. There is just some jumbos in the system like probably never before.Congrats! Besides asking whether you should dock your dogs tail or not, anybody hazard a guess why it seems alot more of these large females are getting fooled in the last few years? electronics? presentation? location, lure?#$%^&>
I don’t think more are necessarily being fooled, its just that there is more of them in the system so your chances increase. Most people I know seem to have caught their largest walleye in the last three years or so between the Missouri and Sak. There is just some jumbos in the system like probably never before.
Self imposed slot limits? I'd like to think so.
Congrats! Besides asking whether you should dock your dogs tail or not, anybody hazard a guess why it seems alot more of these large females are getting fooled in the last few years? electronics? presentation? location, lure?#$%^&>
I agree that there are more fish (maybe due to stocking, definitely good forage in recent years), thus more big fish. I'm 51 yrs old and my two biggest walleye have come to me in the past three years. One at 30", one at 32".
I also applaud those who let the bigs go. Nothing against those who keep them. They're alive, so they're going to die one day anyhow.
But both of mine swam away. If it's big, and you're not going to eat it, or put it on the wall, may as well let her go.