Just thought I would make everyone aware that there is a new online catfish survey up at http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fishing/index.html and is designed for catfish anglers across the whole state of Minnesota. The survey is just 10 questions long, takes a couple minutes, and is completely anonymous.
The old survey is still up too. Links to both the new survey and the old survey, which was looking for volunteers to keep catfish diaries, can be found at http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish/catfish/index.html The older survey was designed for catfish anglers in the Twin Cities Metro Area. If you haven’t taken that survey yet, I encourage you to. If your mailing address or email has changed since you took that survey, feel free to drop me an email at [email protected] to update it. Since the idea of anglers keeping diaries in a spreadsheet and sending them to me electronically didn’t work out too well, I have made up paper diaries this year and will be mailing them out soon. Hopefully that means increased participation as I only got a handful of diaries mailed or emailed to me the last two years. These paper diaries I put together are made with waterproof paper, so all you need to do is throw it in your tackle box with a pencil and remember to record the information when you catch a fish.
There are lots more tagged catfish swimming around, way more than this time last year. We tagged over 600 catfish last year and had reports of four being caught by anglers.
Joel
