….a transgender walleye that’s transitioning into a porcupine! Why else would he…I mean she….I mean he….she…..I’m just going to go with “it.” Why else would it have a couple quills surgically implanted in it’s back????
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Its been pretty common this year to get one with double tags. I’ve seen it 3 times this summer alone. I believe the DNR used two tags because they thought the tags were susceptible to falling out. Here’s a pic of @Grubson and I with a double, double! His is double tagged.
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Yup my boat saw three double tags this summer
It’s fun to report the tag numbers and see where the fish have been. One of the double tags I caught this spring was a 24″, it was tagged on May 7th on the west shoreline of the lake and i caught it on May 20th a quarter mile from the east shore near big point.
We had a tagged one that was tagged in isle bay and caught in front of Red Door. Amazing how much they move
I wasn’t thinking I’d found the holy grail, but I figured a double tagged walleye had to be pretty rare. I vaguely remembered hearing about them being a thing this year, and seeing a picture of one someone caught on here ot elsewhere (could’ve been one of those rewards tags too). I certainly thought it was a lot more rare than they clearly are! Ha ha
There are areas where tagged fish seem to be far more common, which isn’t rocket science I guess. They’re going to be more likely to be caught closer to where they were tagged.
An old college buddy’s family cabin was down on South end and he started a semi-regular tradition of hosting fishing opener that lasted about fifteen years. He was the type of guy where opener meant a lot due to his family and sentimental value instilled when he was growing up….but fishing beyond that wasn’t something he cared to do. He never even had a boat. Me or one of the other guys that came would have to bring boats and then he’d act like he was guiding us while fishing out of our own boats on a lake we easily fished ten times more than he did in a year we didn’t get out much. Loads of Daddy issues with this. In the 15 year time span he hosted more often than not, I’m guessing he caught no more than twenty walleyes, and that’s being generous….three were tagged. Lots of DNR doing fisheries stuff as well. We never didn’t see DNR and got checked every opening weekend I can remember. Funny, never heard data on a single one of those tags.
The handful of walleye tags I’ve gotten over the years have never had anything really cool for info. I did get a tagged channel catfish up from Granite Falls that swam that distance over a year and half. The guy who tagged it was ecstatic. Some commercial fishermen had a permit to seine Black Dog through the ice and the DNR guys was more or less just there to make sure game fish didn’t get taken and wind up in the meat processor with the carp. There weren’t many game fish pulled up in the nets, so not many to tag, and he hadn’t received any recoveries yet so he was very excited and grateful for getting the info in.
The catfish tag was metal and much cooler than the ML walleye quills. I took pictures on my phone and made a memo with the basic info behind the catch. I couldn’t remember if you’re allowed to take the tags off and keep him so the fish just went back with them.
ND G&F walleye tags are much cooler. It’s like a duck band on their lip—reporting rate is much higher since you typically can’t unhook the fish without seeing it. It was actually really fluky last night with how the tags got pointed out….a split second before I almost had got fish overboard
P.S. I really think the DNR is dropping the ball by not giving the info out on a certificate. I’m not talking about anything fancy….just a pdf template that could then be printed off and framed, like for duck bands. Really kind of a shame that don’t do that since the DNR has to write all that up anyways. Having it done uniformly on something that resembles a certificate would bring a lot of exposure and encourage them getting reported more when guys start seeing their buddies certificates up at their fish camp, cabin, etc.
Anyone catch any tagged fish besides a ML walleye?
We had a tagged one that was tagged in isle bay and caught in front of Red Door. Amazing how much they move
That’s the coolest tag I’ve heard of…the entire lake it traveled across before caught and reported. Usually they don’t seem to be real far out of the general vicinity of where they got tagged.
Kind of hard to beat that fish for distance traveled unless a tagged one starts heading down the Rum and goes a ways, which wouldn’t shock me if that’s happen before on numerous occasions.
Here’s a pic of @grubson and I with a double, double! His is double tagged.
Great pic and Sweet Boat! Is that an old Alumacraft? Starcraft? My brother used to have something pretty close to that for floor plan….his was old, not sure if yours is, but it looks like a sweet boat to fish out of. My bro redid his and fixed it all up and we got a handful of real solid years out of the thing before he took a job out of state and sold it.
Anyone catch any tagged fish besides a ML walleye?
Spending most summers growing up when I was younger at Agate Bay I would catch a few tagged northerns casting in the harbor each year. I believe back then they were doing a northern study similar to the walleye study they are now doing.
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Here’s a pic of @grubson and I with a double, double! His is double tagged.Great pic and Sweet Boat! Is that an old Alumacraft? Starcraft? My brother used to have something pretty close to that for floor plan….his was old, not sure if yours is, but it looks like a sweet boat to fish out of. My bro redid his and fixed it all up and we got a handful of real solid years out of the thing before he took a job out of state and sold it.
That is my 1988 Alumcraft competitor 165. It is a honey of a boat to fish out of. Especially with the brand new Yamaha 4 stroke on it. Very solid old boat, never leaks a drop. I bought it 4 years ago and have no plans to part with it. It’s a great mid sized boat that handles rough water well and is also small enough to drop it in the water at basically any landing no matter how shallow.
Sixteen days later, fishing out of the same landing, the second half of a double….
….you guys weren’t kidding these things are common. Twice this year I’ve fished out of this landing—twice I’ve caught a tagged walleye—tagged twice
Just have to fish where everyone goes out of including the DNR. You’ll catch less fish, but you’ll catch more that got groped by state employees….
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