04-10-2024, 10:08 PM
(04-10-2024, 09:53 PM)RockyRaab2 Wrote: I do like Starvie in the warmer months. Especially for smallies. It's funny that the DWR folks tell us to please keep as many small wallies from Starvie as we can because they're overpopulated. According to them. You'd think the bottom was paved with 'em.
It's a bit far for a day trip for me, so I always book a cabin. Thankfully, they no longer require that cumbersome $100 cleaning deposit, nor do they
require an inspection before you leave. Those were always a pain in the keister just trying to find somebody.
Pat, I got past my expected expiration date 50 years ago when I left Vietnam, but that experience definitely taught me exactly how far to press things. Three-foot whitecaps of 43-degree water and 20-mph winds is waaay past that point.
There is an overabundance of micro wallies in Starvation...much like it was before the perch magically appeared and they started growing bigger. They can grow to "underfooter" size on aquatic invertebrates but without a hefty supply of small fishies to feed on their growth slows way down. Back in the early 2000s, (B.P....before perch) the state actually hired some netting crews to remove a lot of the small walleyes to reduce the food demands on available resources. Then perch showed up and the smallies and wallies grew bigger. Now if they would just plant some more chubs...or more perch... But in this trout-oriented state we know that ain't gonna happen. So enjoy the rainbows and lament the walleyes.