First Mohawk River walleye of the season!

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Joe M

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Just went out a few days ago for walleye for the first time this season. Me, my dad, and Mikeyy caught some nice fish. Day started slow, but we had 7 fish when we left around noon (had to get home cause we picked up a few small mono peacock pass at a small LFS that i went by 100 times without even knowing it was there). All in all a great day. :)

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Pretty crappy cell picture of one of the biggest ones on a 28inch wide cutting board. The board is cut off a bit in the picture but it ends about 2 inches after the tail.

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oh guys nice catch but did you really need to keep them all? I will just about put money on that the big one had eggs in her.
 
MultispeciesTamer;4674120; said:
oh guys nice catch but did you really need to keep them all? I will just about put money on that the big one had eggs in her.
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They didn't go to waste. The biggest one was actually a big male anyways. There's not really any way for me to tell when I'm out fishing if i have a female or not. Besides, unless it was a real big one, like the 11 pounder i got at the end of last season(which i released), or I didn't plan to eat them, i definitely wouldn't keep them. But i know what you mean. Ive seen guys have 5 fish with one huge fish that obviously is a big female full of eggs, and they take all 5. Why not let the big one go and take the 4 smaller ones?
 
Joe M;4676773; said:
They didn't go to waste. The biggest one was actually a big male anyways. There's not really any way for me to tell when I'm out fishing if i have a female or not. Besides, unless it was a real big one, like the 11 pounder i got at the end of last season(which i released), or I didn't plan to eat them, i definitely wouldn't keep them. But i know what you mean. Ive seen guys have 5 fish with one huge fish that obviously is a big female full of eggs, and they take all 5. Why not let the big one go and take the 4 smaller ones?
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Its cool I understand, walleye is a great table fish and most of those are great eating size ;).

I know a few local guys by me who go out almost everyday and keep every legal walleye they catch. And here we are a few years down the line and they wonder why the numbers are not there like they used to catch. Hmm lets see VHS caused the DNR to stop stocking the river and you and your budies keep 20 some walleyes a week. And they wonder where they all went. I am just glad that next year they plan to start stocking again. I do relise they are not the only cause the St. joe river gets lots of other anglers keeping every walleye. And natural reproduction although on the rise is not where it should be.
 
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