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I guess I don't know if you want me

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advance what I'm going to do and

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then take a picture.

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So yeah, I'll just kind of follow

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the reaction then, and then I might

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just have you, when we get the

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phone up to the lens, I might try

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to reframe the, get a shot of

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through your phone.

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Okay, cool.

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Um, cool.

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So like, well, do you want me to

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talk while I'm doing it?

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Yes, if you want to kind of narrate

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what you're doing as you're doing it

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and what you are looking for if you

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can.

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Um, yeah, so these are walleye

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eggs we collected this morning when

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we were fike netting.

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them out of the vial and putting

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them on the scope so that I can

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photograph them.

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And I, I can like make this

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process shorter. Normally it takes

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like each sample takes a little bit

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to like spread them out good.

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that's easier.

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Oh, whatever you usually

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do, that's fine with me,

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I've got nothing but time.

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get a permit to fish here?

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would like to fish here, they

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have to pop into the station here.

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right here.

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pencil.

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couple of things, a little bit of

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demographic data from

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the anglers.

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that point.

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turn the macro off.

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through the scope, and I'll take it.

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This is actually looking about it on

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the mind if they don't

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report out when they get done.

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them, send them that stuff.

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fishing, we would

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mark down the date and stuff

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like that, what time they started

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fishing, the methodology

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just put these photos into

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image processing software

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and what we're doing

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is looking in the diameter

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of the eggs and

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the yolk basically to

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look at how walleye

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and stuff like that, so we just.

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You know how like different let

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me think of the right thing to say

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do walleye eggs influence

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recruitment how are walleye egg

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part of

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before we're facing summer.

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How does that like set up?

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Official or combination.

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that kind of came out was maybe that

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maternal effects could be important.

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the female walleye

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influence recruitment?

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that the larvae will be bigger, so

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advantage. Distance data and then

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how you know, that yolk and that

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nutritional investment in the egg

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could influence that as well.

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female size,

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female age, we looked at

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population level factors like yellow

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purge and just looked at.

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influenced by all these things and

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for the last 80 years, every fish

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that comes to that here, we have all

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that information.

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Probably 2014 or 2015.

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The main focus seemed to be that

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environmental variability can

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influence eggs, so if in years

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where forage isn't as abundant,

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less provisioned, they're not as

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nutritionally dense, and

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factors, the most

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important factor ultimately seemed

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to maybe be a genetic

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factor, so maybe some walleye

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are just generally better at

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producing eggs and have generally

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better, and which might influence

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their Is it true?

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the study going even though we

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long-term data set.

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because all of our female walleye

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after year after year.

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could get egg samples from the same

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fish so you can look at how

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different factors have influenced

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those eggs and then we can look

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recruitment later.

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of egg quality and

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maybe recruitment potential.

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far, and no one's used to you've,

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uh... Well, I ha-

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Well I haven't measured them yet, so

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photo and put it into the software

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do little measurements on 10 of

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the eggs and then we can kind of

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look and see per female,

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okay how big were her eggs on

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average, how big where the yolks on

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average how variable were

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they and then,

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um we can kinda like it.

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well, this year, what was the ice

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like this year?

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What was ice like last year?

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What was the perch like last here?

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How are these things influencing

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eggs and potentially

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recruitment?

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Yeah, so that's what I'm doing.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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For about two years and there

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are a few people out there who are

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still in a 120 purge, you know,

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in an outing, and there's still

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people, excuse me.

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I actually, I'll be going straight

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to probably DeGaulle and Knax,

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and then I'll get in after, and so,

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then we'll go up to Sanford,

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and like I said, everything should

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be there, the boat should be ready

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to go, and gas stuff,

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and the hooks and the rope to tie

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off the boat is

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in the back seat of the truck

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there.

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We are going to go home for the end

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now.

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Yeah, so in the 90s it doesn't

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take long for something

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like that to happen.

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Some people are harvesting at that

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level.

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But it's funny that even...

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Well the purpose came out of Nevis.

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We've gone through a while.

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But one of the purposes of why...

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Originally the regulations were set

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up. So when they did open up the

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fishing...

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be like...

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One, the lakes are going to be

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absolutely loaded with fish and

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they're all going to huge.

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It works the opposite way with fish.

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And so you have too many mouths to

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feed, and so they were all small

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and stunted.

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And so the no clothes season,

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no bag room, no size limit was

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originally put on to basically

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how much harvest does it take to

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kind of put back in the right

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direction and balance that out.

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Like Mac was talking about, he loves

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to fish small mouth on pallet.

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And his little dog, his little white

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dog, has died now,

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and he had those heart issues.

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He'd be in here every two days,

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you know.

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Older gentleman, dragon is canoeing

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in there in all his glory with his

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little dog.

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So you get a lot of that stuff,

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which is kind of cool.

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You get to know new people.

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Warner.

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Warner, yeah, we get dirty old

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men in here.

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The gals and all that stuff.

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You can imagine.

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Warner's one of them.

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Here's another one.

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He and his brother, his brother's

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passing them up to you, but they

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just exclusively push them out.

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So, I mean, this is the

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main building that was remodeled in

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2008.

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It's all solar and generator-run.

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A lot of history.

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Yeah, that's pretty much it.

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Oh, I have a section of YouTube.