Some will rail on me for this, but did anyone else have a queezy stomach and feel like puking after seeing all those dying or teats-up dead walleyes during the FLW weigh in?
Now, the MC stated the first day that all dead walleyes would be cleaned and donated to the local food pantries—-so I guess that makes everything ok-right?
I think not. Now, I am not against keeping fish to eat, I do it all the time, that was not the point of this event: It was to make BIG money off of a fishery in which they damn well know all the fish are more than likely going to die!
This was not a catch’em and eat’em campaign….
Warm water, walleyes, livewell ride, temp. changes(shock)=’s dead walleyes days later.
So my question is, who’s going to go out there in the Bay, scoop up all the floaters and fillet them up? FLW?, nope they will be long gone.
A new day has come where the these resources, no matter how vast, are repected and conservation held at the forefront (AIM’s format for example)–did the FLW do this, nope-just did “the best they could” which was a frickin’ CHEAP excuse.
Where was the WDNR in this? They should have required this to be a kill tournament-least the MDNR has the guts to do that (Lake City MWC) and other local tournaments have stated “this is a kill tournament” -not sugarcoating things and putting on a fake front.
I am sickened to think of all the large, female walleyes floating dead in the lake this week—I wonder if all the fisherman feel the same way? The FLW should have required all the fisherman to KEEP their fish–least that would have guaranteed none would be wasted.
All the FLW did was exploit a resource, no matter how vast it seems, show zero respect under the ruse of promoting conservation, make a quick buck off the environment and in the end fed the turtles.
Maybe the next warmwater FLW walleye event should import turtles to clean up their mess a little faster?
Don’t tell me, FLW, your “doing your best”–that is a joke.
Black-eye FLW,,,,,black-eye. 
Jeremy
