Fishing Door County

  • titeline
    Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
    Posts: 20
    May 25, 2011 at 9:57 pm #1308567

    couple of dandy smallies my partner with a chunky 5 and i stroked a magnum on the digital weighed 7.42my best one ever .Released to fight another day!!!

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13651
    May 26, 2011 at 12:15 am #969129

    7.42 WOW Now that’s a toad! Congrats on the PB smallie

    onestout
    Hudson, WI
    Posts: 2698
    May 26, 2011 at 1:15 am #969144

    wow, that’s a nice one, a lot bigger than anything I’ve come across.

    docfrigo
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 1564
    May 26, 2011 at 2:22 pm #969272

    wow, now that is a fish of a lifetime!!!!!!!
    I would not be surprised to see a new state record prespawn female come out of that system.

    Think the biggest issue now with that system is fish being caught off beds or during prespawn and hauled miles away in a livewell to a weigh-in. These fish essentially will not spawn, beds are killed due to gobies and in the long term will promote less-smaller bass. Last year, was a real bummer to go by many, many empty beds due to fish being removed and hauled miles away. Essentially, when we would catch one, you’d release it and back it would go, down to it’s bed and life would go on. Would be so simple for tournaments, such as the Sturgeon Bay Open to progress to a Catch, Record, Release format that AIM uses–for fish pics, take the hero shot and put on the web. For this time of year it makes complete sense and is the good of the fishery.
    Really, bringing fish back to the scale and holding them up for a few locals in the crowd to see? Think AIM has this one licked—heck, we even are using it for our local walleye league. It floors me that the biggest proponents of catch and release (bass guys) have been SO SLOW at doing this–as I bet many have pits in their stomachs knowing the fish in their livewell is no longer going to be able to spawn and it’s bed is being riddled by gobies.

    andy-johnson
    Milwaukee, WI
    Posts: 77
    June 16, 2011 at 11:14 pm #973916

    I agree that catch and release for these tournaments is better for the system but the only problem is that even pulling a smallie off the bed for a minute or two will do damage on most nests. Next time you walk the docks in the harbors with smallie nests. On a calm sunny day you can see all the gobies just waiting around the nest. It doesn’t take long for the nest to get wiped out.

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