Big Cliff

Well, the fact is that a friend of mine noticed several dead walleye floating around after the tournament and he knew nothing of the reports or pictures when he told me about it so there is something to support the pictures and reports. If those fish didn't go to waste, what did happen to them? Did someone clean them and take them home to eat? If they did wouldn't they be considered in posession and wouldn't they have been over their limit of 4 fish per day? Not only that, if they didn't catch them isn't that "party fishing"? That being said, isn't it also against the law to spoil or allow to be spoiled any game or fish? You are right Hirk, it is my opinion and until now I have never had any problem with tourniments, I often talk to anglers fishing my dock in the bass tourniments and I'm glad to see them enjoying their day. The problem is that walleye are a lot more sensitive than bass and if walley tourniments are going to result in fish kills like the one that seems to have happened here I will do whatever I can to prevent that from happening and that is a fact!

I've been doing a lot more reading since I started this thread! My conclusion is this: If all tourniments are run as efficently as this one was then all tourniments should be banned and the people responsible for the fish killed as a result of this tourniment should face jail and fines! I live here, I pay taxes here, probably more in taxes every year than this whole tourniment generated in revenue for the area and I don't take more than 6-8 walleye a year for the table. I'll risk the sensors and say that the reports of this tourniment being good for the area and well run are "BULL POOP"! I will now be fighting to reduce or eliminate ANY tourniments from this lake!

I just want some of those cute ones to do a nude protest, I'd even let them use my dock (if they were really cute)!

Thanks to those of you who have sent me emails, I will be following up with all of you shortly.

Now that is just plain sad and illeagal! I think someone should get charged for allowing those fish to be wasted. It isn't the fact that some fish died which is bad enough, it is that they were allowed to go to waste. I have never had a problem with tournaments before but I sure do now!

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I have lived here for 12 years now and the last 4 or 5 I have seen a huge drop in the number of walleye I could catch in a day. Yes, I can still put fish in the boat but nothing like it was when we first moved here. I really believe there are several factors and sport fishing isn't one of them, it may be a contributor but I believe most of them are environmental. Zebra mussles, cormorants, and water quality are having far more impact than any fishing tournament.

That would explain the number of dead walleye washing up on shore. Very sad if it is true! There is a lot of shore line on Sturgeon Lake, finding one is bad but my friend saw several in a small area.

Thanks for posting that Dutch!

Wouldn't it be a total of 8 fish for the boat or does each angler have to enter their seperate weights? I just heard from a friend today that there were some dead walleye washed up on shore, mostly smaller ones near the lower end of the slot. I wonder if it had anything to do with the tourny and people culling? I really hope not but we haven't seen any on previous weekends.

No I don't Roy but at one point I'll bet there were at least 25 or 30 boats out in front of our place fishing Goose Bay. In a couple of hours fishing I only saw one walleye caught, there might have been more but not that I could see. Goose Bay is a pretty big area! I would have thought that Saturday would have been a excellent walleye day, overcast with rain showers moving through the area all morning and a warm front moving in. Should have been ideal walleye weather but to the best of my knowledge it was very slow.

There was a fishing tournament on Sturgeon Lake this weekend, I believe it was out of the Bobcayegon area. I was trying to find the results on line but can't seem to get any. I did talk to a couple of boats on the water and they reported fishing was extreamly slow. I had much the same luck, I caught more muskie than I did walleye. Also, if you were fishing the tournament and lost a hat on Sunday morning, I have it, it blew out of your boat as you went past me. Give me a shout I'll get it back to you. I'd have brought it back in person but my top speed is about 32 mph, you were long gone before I could even get my motor started LOL.

Well, I can tell you where they aren't Only three fish for a couple of hours fishing, all small. I'm guessing they didn't like the rain either LOL. Talked to a couple of guys fishing the tournament, they all said the same thing "SLOW" and these guys are the pros so if they aren't catching I don't feel so bad.

Well, I'm back LOL, nice thing about living right on the lake, drive boat into cradle, flip switch, boat is in the boat house. Tomorrow is looking like a much nicer day, guess I'll take a shot at the honey do list for the rest of the day, doesn't look like it is going to get much better for a while.

Got it my friend And a very good morning to you!

I'll be pulling away from my dock at 5:30 for those that planned on hooking up with me.

Boy, if it wasn't for bad luck, you'd have no luck at all Actually it sounds like a good trip with good friends. Not every trip can be sunshine and light breazes or there would be nothing to write about.

Maureen, I would re-think this one. A motor that old is going to be hard to get parts for. The money you spend on that motor now is going to be gone in a couple of years at best. Wait another year, save, and get something newer that you can depend on, it will be time and money well spent. You don't get that many chances to get out fishing every year, when you do get the chance you don't need to be worring about repairs to an old motor.

I would return the Raymarine unit and get an HDS. A lot of people on the board have them so there is no shortage of experienced technical help. Mine sits right behind my windshield and has no problem acquiring a fix and holding it even inside my boat house.

The Honda units are excellent quality, Kipour uses the same engine, I have worked on both and can't find any difference other than the colour of the case and the Kipour is a lot less money. I do have a 6500 watt Champion generator set up so I can just flip a couple of breakers and it does everything I need to power the house in a pinch but it is noisy. I could put the Kipour on my porch right out side the back door and you couldn't even hear it running. 3/4 of a gallon of gas for about 7 hours of run time. Only reason I even sold the Kipour was it was only 1000 watts and wouldn't run the big appliances.

I think it was cute and no harm done! Mandy could teach him a few tricks, she did the toilet paper roll thing several times, came running down the hall with a pair of Sue's undies in her mouth one day when we had a house full of company, loves to steal just about anything she shouldn't. Today she stole a pair of my jeans and Sue found her laying out in the yard on the grass with them neatly bundled up under her.

The only problem with those cheep generators is they tend to be very noisy and the power out put on them isn't very stable. If you are going to be using this generator for powering computers and things at some point in the future buy a Kipour (Honda but in a yellow package) they are super quiet and nice and stable for powering electronics.

I fish without one all the time and have for many years although Pikeslayer gave me one this spring and I think I will mount it as soon as I get a chance. Not necessary but nice to have.

Ya, but 100 worms here, 90 of them go to kids fishing of my dock, the other 10 usually go to the robins LOL. You know me, I seldom use live bait!

I get them here for $12.00 a hundred.