Well lunker,that's what some in the dnr are suggesting and we're not buying it,I've been in this battle since it started in the mid 80's in wisc, when things heated up in 1992 here in Mn,its easy for someone to read the feel good stories from the outside that haven't a clue what the real story issue is here,for example lunker,lets take upper red lake for an example as it wasn't that long ago the state shut it down for 10years while we non natives payed the price to restock,keep in mind we non natives can only fish1/3rd of upper red and off limits to lower red,"How did this happen you say?" greed from the red lake tribe commercial fishing the lake,infact I have leech ;lake tribal members show me pics when they were hired to net red lake and were paid bounty for so many lbs of walleye,it took 13yrs for red lake to collasps from their commercial fishery operation when it opened,we're pushing 15yrs here with strick regs and slots against sport fishing who pays the price.
We see the facts lunker,how about this data,unlike what you read the true facts of the walleye spawning bio mass in mille lacs was 3.3million strong in 1999 when the netting started,by 2012 this # dropped to 1,5 million,so your info is off target and out in left field,today this is lower yet even after the two late ice outs we had in 2012/2013 and no nets which showed a huge rebound of these two year class fish.
sitting in nodak making assumptions why we are in this state of collasps is easyremember our dnr won't address the real issue as the tribe donates millions of $$$ casino $$$ to dems here, it does;'nt take a 4yr degree to see whats happening,our lake is @ a 40yr walleye spawning bio mass low and it all started in 1999.Most of this data available on our dnr website.