Muskie Anglers Unite

[Shawn Kellett]

Here's one of the more entertaining emails I've gotten today. I'm still chuckling

Mr. Kellett: Just saw your spot on KSTP, and while I agree you have the right to access any public lake, you do NOT have the right to put in it anything you want to. I suppose millfoil, zebra mussels, and asian carp are OK with you, too.

You want to go muskie fishing, then got to one of the "muskie lakes" that already exist and knock yourself out. But don't screw up the fishing at other lakes just to satisfy your single-minded notion on what makes for good fishing. And don't think your DNR support is worth very much what given what they've managed to do to deer hunting in this State.

[foulpole18]

Here's one of the more entertaining emails I've gotten today. I'm still chuckling

Mr. Kellett: Just saw your spot on KSTP, and while I agree you have the right to access any public lake, you do NOT have the right to put in it anything you want to. I suppose millfoil, zebra mussels, and asian carp are OK with you, too.

You want to go muskie fishing, then got to one of the "muskie lakes" that already exist and knock yourself out. But don't screw up the fishing at other lakes just to satisfy your single-minded notion on what makes for good fishing. And don't think your DNR support is worth very much what given what they've managed to do to deer hunting in this State.

Shaun I saw the piece last night, but I must of missed the kart where you said that milfoil,zebra mussels and Asian carp were what you wanted in lakes. Must be one of the 800 signatures that think they own the lakes that sent you that email. Ignorance must truely be bliss.

[thrax]

I will grant that many of the great muskie lakes that have great fishing for walleyes and other species are large bodies of water with diverse habitat and forage options. Many of the smaller/lesser known lakes with muskies are no slouch's for other fish though either. My point was that predation keeping certain preyfish in line in a lake will allow for better natural production via spawning and survival rate for all fish in a lake. That doesn't mean automatically better fishing as there can be a million other factors also that affect overall fish populations etc. But that specific affect of helping control preyfish populations doesn't hurt.

[goblueM]

what we really should do is make our own online petition to stock MORE muskies and submit that to kstp, i bet we can get more signatures than Jim Eagan has in about 1 day.

playing the one-upmanship game isn't going to get anything productive done, it's just going to polarize things more.

[cjac]

Thanks to polarsusd81 for posting this a couple days back and bringing it to our attention.

Nice work Tom!

[Kodiak]

playing the one-upmanship game isn't going to get anything productive done, it's just going to polarize things more.

totally disagree with your take...sorry.... our voices have to be heard too.

[Kodiak]

doesnt really matter anyhows, no one is signing it....lost cause i suppose.