Some More Standups

Tried some more zonker strips on stand up jigs.

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Those look really good to me. I believe they'd travel well across marl bottoms. Nice designs.

FM, Try reloading the page. I've noticed that I have to sometimes reload 2-3 times to get all the pic's to appear and even then they'll show up a few seconds after the page is loaded.

Very nice. Did you bar those tails with a sharpie?

Thanks fellas. FnF, No I actually found that color combo at Cabelas and haven't found it since although it's been a while since I've been there. It's a Hareline #TSM6 Tiger Barred magnum, Hot Orange/Black over White and their a 1/4 wide instead of 1/8. I notice that some places carry different variety's/colors at different times and that's the only place I've found it.

Walleye? How big do they get out your way?

If you're hunting 'eyes, try tying one up in school bus yellow

Hawnjigs said:

Walleye? How big do they get out your way?

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Here's an exception.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/mar/05/record-2032-pound-walleye-caught-by-pasco-man-on/

We have a slot limit but lately they've been easing up and wanting you to catch the smaller fish. We haven't been out as much as in the past but my wife caught a nice 25" one on the Spokane river and a fellow I know get's 22's to 27" fairly often. Our slot is, no min size, daily limit 10, up to 5 over 18" and only 1 over 24. The tribes on the river are complaining that the walleye are eating all of their trout so their trying to thin them out. A large majority of the people that frequent the river fish for wally and not the trout but you know how that goes. It's nice the tribes feed the walleye so that they can get big!  Can you tell I'm not a bit trout fisherman?? The trout are good fighters but taste like the bottom of a swamp.

Daang, didn't realize the walleye fishery was THAT! Can you catch them from shore? My wife was considering a move to the NE corner of Washington and tho we live separately for now I just might tag along.

Hahaha, thats an interesting description of the unique flavor of trout. Locals here might not appreciate it cuz even 10" stockers get bucketed. I've gotten decent #s of FAT 18-20s in Lake Ogallala and haven't eaten one yet.

I've only been fishing Lake McConaughy for a year & a half, and one old timer mentioned there used to be a rainbow trout fishery until the walleye ate em all.

Don't get me wrong, there's also quite a few dink's but I'm seeing more and more larger walleye on the local forums. There is some bank fishing and have seen some that have pretty good luck plus I'm sure there's many areas I don't know about, but  a boat certainly helps. With the trout, I think the biggest problem is that the state tries to make every body of water into a trout fishery because that's their bread-n-butter. They will wipe out a lake and plant nothing but trout in it (Sprague lake) and it's deepest water is around 12-18'. It's a dishpan lake that can really heat up in the summer and the trout just get mushy and taste like mud. When we were kids we would fish crab creek about 2miles west of town and the small trout from there were tasty but the water is very cold and clear even in the summer. There's been numerous surveys on which fish to plant in some of the local lakes and pretty much most people will vote spiny ray but when it comes out in the paper they'll claim that it's hands down trout.  :dodgy:  I've personally seen some of the results and that wasn't the way the people voted.  It's all about the $$$ or some sort of prestige.

That is exactly what the state of Colorado does. Every body of water has trout. Don't get me wrong they are a beautiful fish but not worth eating if you ask me.

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Oregon does the same thing in regards to removing bass.

One lake in particular was a natural trophy trout lake and bass got introduced and it definitely did harm the trout. That lake I am all for removing the bass. And they were damn fine large mouth. At least the did electro shock and transplant instead of kill the whole lake. They have rotenone (sp?) a couple lakes for tui chub infestation($6 billion on Diamond a couple years ago). With little success because they returned. This year they are putting a tiger trout(from Utah) into Diamond and rotenone another this last fall to combat chubs, we'll see how that plays out.

But other lakes(scratch that)reservoirs, the bass would thrive if they did a little management instead of just pumping money into trying to make them "trout lakes." I understand that they have a vested intrest in planting stockers for people the "bucket." All I'm try to say is just manage some reservoirs for bass. We have crap for bass management, no min/ max that's going to make a better population. Keep stocking those all mighty trout! OK I'm done for now, in short I agree with you guys.

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Tried to do some research on relative stocking costs of different species, but couldn't find a single site comparative price list. Collating info from several, it seems rainbow trout are the cheapest to stock at a catchable size of 8-10", while for example bass & walleye prices are comparable only at smaller fingerling size, catchable size double to triple that cost.

From experience, it seems trout are more likely to remain in a stock area than other species, advantageous to shorebound anglers particularly kids & less mobile seniors. Luckily, water bodies deemed suitable for other warm water species are managed for them when budgets permit. Kinda funny when you hear about dual cold-warm managed areas where the larger predators wait for the stocker trucks.

  LOL. Reminds me of this fellow here that has a pond that he stocks with crappie/gills and bass for his grandkids and others. He was just hand feeding them so when you walk up to the edge of the ramp they come swimming up to see what's to eat! Sort of spooky at first to see about 20 fish heading for you. (insert theme from jaw's here)  
Game dept here also was charging us a "warm water enhancement fee" on the licenses but I really don't think it went for that. On a similar note, with the pheasant enhancement program they broadcast where they are going to release them so the slob hunters just follow the release truck and "clean up" after them.