The part about the walleye size structure really caught my eye. 32% over 18″…..yippie! This certainly fits with my records of more and more fish over the slow limit showing up every year. Great news for the inaugural Lake Wissota Open Walleye Tournament sponsored by the WWWAA!
Lake Wissota – Spring netting surveys conducted in 2006 and 2007 provided a population estimate of one adult musky for every 10 acres. The number of larger, older fish was low due to low stocking levels from the midto late 1990s. Fifteen percent of the catch was 40 inches and larger, with the largest a 54-inch female. In fall 2005, the local Muskies Inc. chapter stocked 500 Leech Lake strain muskies and added another 833 Leech Lake fingerlings in fall 2007. The 2007 musky survey also provided further information on walleye, northern pike and smallmouth bass populations. Thirty-two percent of the walleye catch was 18 inches and larger, which indicates that the 14- to 18-inch protected slot size is doing well at producing larger fish in the lake. For legal-size smallmouth bass, 23 percent of the catch was 17 inches and larger. Northern pike are more widespread throughout the lake compared to the 1989 survey. Little Lake Wissota and the Yellow River area of the lake now hold good numbers of northern pike with 19 percent of the 2007 catch 26 inches and larger.
now if Kevin & I can find a couple 18″ or larger during the lake wissota open. 
