More Laker/Burntside Bash EXCITEMENT!!!

[Steve Foss]

If you have smelt, you don't need cicsoes. There haven't been any ciscoes sampled by the DNR on Burntside for over 20 years, not since the smelt found the lake 50 years ago.

The smelt, as well as eating the eggs of a lot of other fish species (ciscoes, whitefish, walleye, laker), compete for the same micro-organisms as all the other gamefish fry, and that one-two punch is what has depressed natural reproduction (some would say eliminated natural reproduction) and forced the DNR to stock walleye and laker there.

I wish the local bait stores would go heavier on smelt and lighter on ciscoes, but I've got someone bringing me up smelt for the Bash.

[Lisa Almquist]

Smelt's the way to go then. Sometimes even I need to be corrected! Between all of us I don't think we'll have a shortage anyway!

[Steve Foss]

Hey Lisa, I didn't see it as a correction, just a point of information.

[DeeDee]

Well I'll be envying all of you as I will be on this forum all by myself.

[Lisa Almquist]

Awww DeeDee! We sure wish you could make it to Ely too. The next time you get to MN (this summer?)we'll have to get together ok?

[DeeDee]

Looking forward to going back. Already making plans, trying to be there for the 4th.