The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources just released its 2011-2015 plan for the management of the Leech Lake fishery. The good news is that the MDNR will continue to stock walleye fry into the lake in amounts varying from 7.5 million per year to 22 million, and those fry already stocked seem to be doing well. The natural hatch also has been strong the past 3 years. Good news for walleye fishermen.
You can read the 39-page plan here.
On a related note, I spoke to one of my Ottertail Peninsula neighbors earlier this week and she told me that there was already 9 inches of ice on Sucker Bay and that many of the hard-water angling fanatics in our neighborhood have pulled their fish houses onto the ice.
Early reports from anglers on the south end of Leech Lake, down near Whipholt, sound promising with good catches of keeper sized walleyes.
It's still too early to know if I'll be making a winter visit to Leech Lake or not.
Friday, December 10, 2010
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