I support the general…

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019-6067

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81472

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I support the general direction of your proposal.
I like that both residents and non-residents will be subject to the same limits.
I like that most large walleyes will need to be released.
I am a little disappointed that one walleye over 70 cm can still be kept. With most people carrying cell phones that can take high quality photos and with the availability of very realistic replicas, there is really very little reason for retaining a large walleye.
I prefer the proposed recommendation over the alternative. But for most situations I don’t see the 34 cm minimum being a huge negative.
One of the issues not addressed in the proposal was the sometimes indiscriminate indigenous netting of fish. On our end of the lake in the fall, the crappies school up in very large numbers in some of the deepest holes. A few years ago nets were deployed in theses areas. The nets were not marked so sport fisherman were continually getting snagged in them. They harvested so many crappie that the crappie fishing in that area was pretty much destroyed for many years and has still not recovered. I realize this is more of an exception than a normal occurrence. But I would hope that there would be some self regulation that could help to avoid unfortunate results like this.