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Hamilton bay - Walleye Stocking - OldTimer - 07-24-2012 07:42 AM
It is great to see that Hamilton's bay water quality has improved to the point where the MNR has initiated a new stocking program. They put 100,000 walleye fingerlings in the bay last week:
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/766639--walleye-in-harbour-seen-as-positive-sign
GOOD STUFF!
Cheers,
OldTimer
RE: Hamilton bay - Walleye Stocking - MichaelAngelo - 07-24-2012 09:20 AM
(07-24-2012 07:42 AM)OldTimer Wrote: It is great to see that Hamilton's bay water quality has improved to the point where the MNR has initiated a new stocking program. They put 100,000 walleye fingerlings in the bay last week:
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/766639--walleye-in-harbour-seen-as-positive-sign
GOOD STUFF!
Cheers,
OldTimer
That's fantastic. In a passing conversation with a fellow angler at Milne Dam Park in Markham, I learned that Walleye used to be abundant there as well.
Another angler told me that walleye used to outnumber bass in the Kawarthas.
I wonder which factor contributed more to their decline: not being as hardy as bass or people keeping every single walleye they caught.
I've yet to catch my first walleye!
RE: Hamilton bay - Walleye Stocking - OldTimer - 07-24-2012 10:32 AM
Bass are not native to any Ontario inland lake - only the Great Lakes and St Lawrence systems originally had the species., yet walleye were native in many inland lakes.
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/stdprodconsume/groups/lr/@mnr/@letsfish/documents/document/stdprod_095205.pdf
No doubt - the decline of the walleye is due to competition from competing species, overfishing (both sport and commercial), and loss of suitable habitat and spawning areas (i.e pollution, silt, construction).
RE: Hamilton bay - Walleye Stocking - woolyworm - 07-24-2012 08:00 PM
Awesome! It will be cool to add walleye to the list of species available in western Lake Ontario!!!!
RE: Hamilton bay - Walleye Stocking - MichaelAngelo - 07-25-2012 08:42 AM
(07-24-2012 10:32 AM)OldTimer Wrote: Bass are not native to any Ontario inland lake - only the Great Lakes and St Lawrence systems originally had the species., yet walleye were native in many inland lakes.
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/stdprodconsume/groups/lr/@mnr/@letsfish/documents/document/stdprod_095205.pdf
No doubt - the decline of the walleye is due to competition from competing species, overfishing (both sport and commercial), and loss of suitable habitat and spawning areas (i.e pollution, silt, construction).
When I was in Algonquin this past weekend, I read about the introduction of smallmouth bass to the area. When the ministry introduced smallmouth bass, they didn't realize that they would out-compete the native brookies.
And now the smallies are all over the park!
Who knows what the walleye will do
. If we have any luck, they'll start learning how to crawl onto shore to eat Canada Goose eggs 