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I reached out to him as well from my work email to offer to sit down and discuss fish management issues with him. He's had concerns in the past that we met with him on and I was hoping to be able to discuss these issues with him, in good faith, as well.

Yes. Once the size distribution shifts toward smaller fish harvest rates decrease. Without predators like walleye and largemouth bass AND angler harvest it is very difficult to maintain high proportional size distributions in populations of highly fecund species like yellow perch.

Unfortunately the lack of water in the spawning channel had more to do with someone holding back water in Blue Lake than it did precipitation. However, the hatchery guys were happy to do it the way we did in 2022 so it looks like that will continue. We will also be doing another survey there...