Opening day of walleye fishing!

[coolpool]

Had a good day fishing with the mrs. Didn't catch a whole bunch but got some nice keepers. Sorry if the pics are rotated. Working off the phone.

[atc350xer]

LOVE walleye... tastiest fish ever. Nice keepers!

[Ghostv2]

Wish i had some nice places to fish close to where i live. One of my favorite things to do.
Where i live all the creeks and rivers are polluted with sulfur from acid mine drainage and they are orange. Coal country is fun to ride but it destroyed the land.
Only lakes around me are state parks and nothing really good. Some bass and sunnys with the occasional pike. Lately the fishing there even sucked.
Rivers suck here.
Disappointment pretty much. :D

[El Camexican]

Yummy! You don't call them pickerel out there?

[coolpool]

Yummy! You don't call them pickerel out there?

Yes we do, but i revert to US terms due to the amount of US forum users. I do the same with temperatures, weights and lengths too ;-)

[shortline10]

Humm , we have Pickerel down her in south florida but they look more like a smaller version of the northern pike . I love walleye fishing , got a 6 pounder mounted from a trip to Michigan I did a few years ago .

[El Camexican]

Yes we do, but i revert to US terms due to the amount of US forum users. I do the same with temperatures, weights and lengths too ;-)

Stay true to your Northern heritage eh!

BTW, not that you asked, but male picks rarely get over a kilo so if you’re keeping them bigger than that you're eating egg layers, AND (this is the gross part) whatever does make it past a kilo usually test high for heavy metals. My Dad tags fish voluntarily for the MB Game & Fish Dept. and they in return send him the data on all the fin clippings he sends them.

[coolpool]

Stay true to your Northern heritage eh!

BTW, not that you asked, but male picks rarely get over a kilo so if you’re keeping them bigger than that you're eating egg layers, AND (this is the gross part) whatever does make it past a kilo usually test high for heavy metals. My Dad tags fish voluntarily for the MB Game & Fish Dept. and they in return send him the data on all the fin clippings he sends them.

We've all questioned our Sustainable Resource guru's decision on Pickeral keeper sizes. They have to be 50cm or more to keep here and we're allowed one per day. I would personally like to see the size lowered and increase the limits. This particular lake has a very healthy fishery. I've seen them at 9lbs come out of here and it's not uncommon to catch 75-100 per day if they're biting good. A 3' pike was caught today by a 10 year old boy and I threw back an 8lb pike today. Don't want those slimy things in my boat, lol. Not sure about contaminants here? Lot's of oil and gas development but our wells are 450 meters deep and sealed with cement around the casings. That's not to say Shiite doesn't happen. I'm sure some biologist has tested our fish sometime.....I hope!

[sp8twn]

Nice catch Coolpool!!!

[El Camexican]

I threw back an 8lb pike today. Don't want those slimy things in my boat

I see those grease sticks the same way. We call them Jacks or “Snarks” (snake+shark) and if conditions are right (i.e. no one is around to see) if one gets on my line it gets released into the food chain at a lower level than it came out of the water at (we have a lot of gulls and snapping turtles around the boat at times;))

[Dirtweed]

Very Nice!

Walleye (Yellow Pike) is some good eating fish...my favorite. Don't get the chance to catch many as I don't have a boat, but
looks like you have the right set up.

[atc350xer]

Nobody has mentioned sauger... we have allot of hybrids in the rivers around here, they call them "saugeyes"

[tri again]

Thanks for the pix.
My granny caught a 39 inch 'pickerel' when I was 5 years old or so.
S New York state so not sure if that was the real name.
What's a muskelunge? is that a real name?

I'll never forget it dragging the boat around.