What is your weather today?

[JonB]

April rains have arrived. raining pretty good right now. it's suppose to rain on and off until Saturday...predicted total from 1" to 2".
I'm hoping the rain ends by Saturday morning, the DNR is gonna put on a show at the local lake, trapping and tagging Walleyes.

 

[Glaciers]

Sunny all day, hitting into the 40*’s, just a light breeze.

 

[RicinYakima]

You folks plant walleye? We have no size limit or catch limit and have been trying to kill them off for over 20 years now.

 

[Winelover]

You folks plant walleye? We have no size limit or catch limit and have been trying to kill them off for over 20 years now.

They sure do. Best eating white flesh fish, around. They are in the yellow perch family, just much larger.

Caught many a tagged fish, back in Michigan. DNR planted them and you were asked to return the tags to the nearest DNR office. I fished exclusively for walleye on Burt Lake. Just below the Straights of Mackinaw. That lake was one of three large lakes and rivers, that were part of the International Waterway, that stretched from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan.

DNR quit stocking the lake when the American Indians (reservation land touched the lake) said they were going to start netting fish...............so the DNR stopped planting. Fishing went down hill, after that. No matter, cause we were relocating, anyways. Over thirty years we rented a cabin at the same resort and fished for two to three weeks in June. There was also a large population of Rainbow and Brown Trout. Musky and Sturgeon, too.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Feels raw... said it was 55 but feelslike 40's ta me. I grabbed a lite feather jacket and headed to therapy.

Home on couch with ice bag... They say Im improving and because I got a new knee cap not rebuilt...Im doing well! Be better if it didnt ache so... the clicking is drivin me nutz. Any you guys with replacement knees click??

CW

 

[RicinYakima]

When some SOB brought walleye over the mountains and into the head waters of the Columbia in the 1930's, we have been fighting them ever since. They eat about 40% of the salmon, steelhead and eel smolt heading for the ocean. For years when we caught them we'd cut the bellies and drop them back into the rivers for sturgeon food. Indians still do that when they get in their nets.

Fishery Department tried to make them into a sport fish in the 1980's, but everybody sued because the salmon runs were dropping 25% each year. So we are back trying to kill all of them.

 

[JonB]

You folks plant walleye? We have no size limit or catch limit and have been trying to kill them off for over 20 years now.

Walleye is king in MN.
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I often wonder about fish names and/or genetics. Are your WA walleyes the same tasty walleyes in MN?
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side note: In MN, Carp is a trash fish that almost no one eats, except Asian immigrants. Most Lakes that have rivers/streams running into and back out of, usually have a fish trap, but we don't call it a fish trap, we call it a Carp trap. Carp harvested out of these traps are disposed of, usually for soil fertilizer. In England, Carp is a sport fish, anglers/fisherman specifically fish for Carp, they are prized there, just like Walleye in MN. So I gotta wonder if those British Carp are similar to MN Carp?
...Maybe it's all cultural?
I mean we have freshwater crayfish (crawdads) in MN, but no one eats them. Crayfish's only claim to fame in MN is, we use for Bass bait. But look at how they are such a delicacy in Louisiana.

 

[JonB]

When some SOB brought walleye over the mountains and into the head waters of the Columbia in the 1930's, we have been fighting them ever since. They eat about 40% of the salmon, steelhead and eel smolt heading for the ocean. For years when we caught them we'd cut the bellies and drop them back into the rivers for sturgeon food. Indians still do that when they get in their nets.

Fishery Department tried to make them into a sport fish in the 1980's, but everybody sued because the salmon runs were dropping 25% each year. So we are back trying to kill all of them.

Walleyes and Northern Pike are eating machines, that is for sure.
With out Walleyes and Northern Pike, the freshwater lakes would be overrun with tiny panfish and other varieties of tiny fish. The lack of the tiny fish, lets those varieties get larger because with less panfish and such, it takes the pressure of their food supply.

 

[JonB]

When some SOB brought walleye over the mountains and into the head waters of the Columbia in the 1930's, we have been fighting them ever since. They eat about 40% of the salmon, steelhead

now I understand why they are disliked in WA

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Walleye is stocked here in CT into a number of lakes. They ARE the best fresh water fish I know of for food.

We fish them just after ice out. As a kid I fished them iff the edge of the ice. Not so foolish in many years. But fish frys where annual event for March/April each year.

 

[RicinYakima]

Yes, great to eat, which is why people fish for them. They are good to eat, just not fun to catch. For me they are like reeling up a rock even on #6 line and ultralight rod. They don't even jump when you get them to the surface.

 

[Cadillac Jeff]

Gray & sprinkling all day just 41 now.

Walleyes definitely eat plenty of our plants, steelhead salmon & brown trout , they are eating machines. Yes they are tasty my favorite to eat tho are crappies mmmmmmmm.

& Mr . Winelover. Walleyes are still doing very well in Bert lk ! Especially when the fish flies are emerging.... oh my !!

My true love is steelhead off the brakewall or surf tho , mostly catch & release .

 

[Glaciers]

Well dropped down overnight to 5* with a predicted high of 17*. High tomorrow of 22*. After that starting Tuesday back into the 30’s and 40’s, by the end of the week hitting into the 50’s. Cinco-De-Mayo is around the corner. May 5th first buds and bugs.

 

[Glaciers]

Well beautiful weather for sure. Wednesday, Thursday hit 48, yesterday 52*. Planet Earth is starting to surface in spots! Snow goes quick with these temperatures and with right at 17 hours of sunshine.
Not sure, but it is looking like Cinco-De-Mayo is going to be a couple days late this spring.

 

[RicinYakima]

No spring this year on the High Steppes, right from 20* lows and 50* highs to 50* lows and 87* highs in four days time.

All the spring bulb flowers were nice for a few days, but no wilted from the heat. Waiting for local asparagus in a week now, three weeks late.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Temps came ip here a bit. Mid 40's from high thirties. Days dont quite hit 50. Rainy yesterday aftnoon and all day today on and off. Plants and grass lovin it. Its gettin' lush green here. Leaves have popped hard ya cant see i to the woods at all.

I decided ta smoke a small ham.

CW

 

[popper]

knees click?? Just normal for me without any replacement!

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

knees click?? Just normal for me without any replacement!

Haha. Yea mine did too

This is more a clunk.

Im told yes all do it get used to it. It just screams loose nut or some such. I just do not like it.

CW

 

[smokeywolf]

We're drying out from the last couple of days of rain. Got my anti-tick granules spread just ahead of the rain; good timing. Next 4 days mostly sun, but supposed to be windy as heck.

Heading into mid 70s to low 80s temps over the next couple of weeks.

Saw our first humming bird this morning. Put the humming bird feeders up this afternoon.

 

[Winelover]

Hummingbirds have been here for couple of weeks, now. Waiting on Baltimore Orioles. Some years they show up, some they don't.