Might want to check your facts on this one. ND raises few if any fall fingerlings, mostly advanced fry, 30 day from hatch, they call them fingerlings, MN calls them frylings. MN, the state at least, does not buy any walleyes from the Dakotas. Most walleyes caught in almost any state come from natural reproduction, think Red, Lotw, Pepin, Leech, Winni, in the Dakotas it would be the Missouri River.
Wisconsin = legal to use up to 3 lines in open water
Minnesota = barely legal to use one in open water
I think that makes for more opportunities to catch walleyes, not more fish.
Think those lakes in NW sconi do not get as much pressure as our northern lakes.
You should spend more time on small Northern MN lakes, there’s 10,000 of them from Ortonville all the way to Ely and Duluth and a lot of them have little to no fishing pressure.
Most walleyes caught in almost any state come from natural reproduction, think Red, Lotw, Pepin, Leech, Winni, in the Dakotas it would be the Missouri River.
I stated this in a comment I made previously on this thread…
“I was told by a reputable source that no amount of stocking will ever match a self sustaining walleye population.”
I recognized your name as that “reputable source” 
And you forgot to mention Mille Lacs…again. 
Walleye fishing is terrible in the state of wisconsin please don’t come here to fish!!
Yuuup. River is soooooo bad right now they lowered the limits this year.
Best to stay away and let the fishery come back.
Boley was caught fishing 200yds from my house in the hail Wednesday.
I bleed Wisconsin sports, beer, cheese, brats, deer hunting, etc. but have since moved to MN for my wife and career.
I would put WI’s bass, crappie, and bluegill fishing up against MN’s any day of the week. Walleyes not so much. MN has the big producers that outdo anything WI offers except Green Bay, its tributaries, and the shared waters of Pool 4. No, Lake Winnebago does not compare to MN’s big lakes either regarding walleye for those who may have read some articles about it or wrongly think it does.
I need to fish more in Northern MN. accd. to BWerm-sure as he** got that right! Barely got out of the metro this year.
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