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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 215986" data-attributes="member: 389">Just curious here, but if muskies aren't eating walleye, what exactly do they eat to get to 50+ lbs?And, of course, these discussions are not exclusive to musky and Minnetucky.  There was a very anti-salmon movement back when salmon and smelt were first stocked into Sakakawea.  Yeah, yeah, smelt are the life-saving blah blah, walleye were pretty common and in decent shape before the smelt came around (note, DL doesn't have smelt).  We just didn't have to deal with months where there were millions of dead smelt on the shoreline before they were stocked.  There were times it was bordering on quite unpleasant to camp on Sak back then.  Of course, it's not a problem any longer since you can't get to those same primitive camp sites today thanks to the tribe and the Corps.There were also pissed off people when NDGF stocked trout into several bodies of water.  If I remember correctly, they would rotenone the lake to kill off the pike and other "trash fish", stock trout, and then have locals dump pike back in.  This is the prevailing theory I've heard from NDGF anyway.  I kind of think pike eggs are easy as hell for ducks to transport, since I've seen them in waters they shouldn't have been in.Not many people like change to their environment.  They bought a cabin on the shore of a public lake in which walleye were the number 1 attraction. If Minnetucky were successful and musky fishing became common on the lake, that does increase the number of anglers overall, even if the walleye population were to remain healthy.  More congestion at boat ramps, etc. Overall, I could not care less what Minnetucky does with their musky and walleye lakes outside of generic curiosity.</blockquote>

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