the 11 different strains in Wisconsin and that like the stocking they really
wanted it to be the same strain at first to me it was like seems like genetic
diversity would be good but then yeah it makes perfect sense that this phenotype
of walleye can do it in this lake so you gotta you don't want to mix the pot up
really it'd be one of those that be different if you could take out the ones
that weren't successful but once they're right you know it's right you're blind
yeah and then you're just yeah you're at those uh those studies that like
Lake Owen has done we talked about that and it's like it seems like not very
successful or something but yeah in here it's interesting because it's kind of
this like will do uh every other year DNR and then there's a local group called
walleye's fish attack and they they're very good at fundraising they fit the
community really well and they they're always they always have a surplus of
money but then it's uh I know they're last round they couldn't even get
the specific strain they couldn't get the Chippewa strain of walleye in here so
it might be something we we work with them on but yeah this lake is pretty
pretty solid for those numbers actually when you think about like what the fish
costs to put in it ends up being more like that 15 to 17 dollar for the one
that you hook rather than 600 to 1600 dollar one so this is a very it's a
productive body of water and I've got early we usually pull in a slot while
I air to every year without fishing really that much so it is really a healthy
population I would say comparably to other lakes but uh yeah it is an
interesting thing of like what what could be done to get it all all better
the populations in general I think the biggest thing I was just uh the DNR had
in their magazine their specials on wild rice in the state and trying to
make it come back and it's like there's all it seems like the fish like there's
all these reasons of like habitat loss over harvesting all the same things you
here but they're like we don't really know what the one the main cause is I
think it's just like these these light winters are really having effect on
things like reproductive systems like from plants to animals whereas because
like while I went NADF is trying to do their reproduction it's yeah there's
some photo period and some they'll sometimes add hormones or whatever but
the biggest thing is that temperature the decrease and then it's a sustained
winter period and then that increase so like without without it there's just
no you can't substitute for it and unfortunately there's no there's no
quick fix for that right right yeah we're just gonna keep having mild winters
which is a little bit easier on the plant side of things just because you
know it's a little bit easier on heating a indoor growth facility or a greenhouse
for that but yeah you just hope we doesn't have too big of impact on all of our
populations from wild rice to walleye
I think any time you change the system that much is going to be winners
and losers right how you determine that will be whether you want more of what
you're getting or if it's the thing is you want it or disappear true like it
all of a change and killed off of skittos we could like yeah right right we're
trying to do that for hundreds of years yeah right
Oh I know in town that's like in when I where I was from an
aim right there's just a stupid amount of geese and they wouldn't they wouldn't
migrate either because we have shoreline there's a ton of houses here there's a
ton of shoreline too but there's very little that's kind of stays protected
and this attack chain is kind of like it's kind of a party chain sort of thing
so there was a last summer or two summers ago right on this little island
there was a boat that was out partying came back here and a reefed got got the
sheriff called got everything and he was he was stuck out there for a couple
days so it's kind of a meme on the should tech chain Facebook page this
this pontoon just launched on that little island right there
all right we'll we'll buzz up here so is this connected to right sleep no it's
not it's uh I don't know if any of the creeks technically you could find the
same water and get there but no there's something like 10 creeks that flow into
here meadows creek very creek but yeah I don't think it has the same water
well I chose the dogs for Z got him there would be a train yeah
see the amount of work that goes in he really enjoys his time yeah it is it is
a whole thing I have some family friends that go out to North Dakota and they have
like this humongous tens of thousands of dollars trailer just for
thought hunting it's like man that's commitment we got out on a no not that
so you kind of just the top one it's kind of threaded through twice on the
crawler and then leave like half of it dangling off
you
Go up!
That'll look okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, yep, and then you just want it when you have it back there. You just want to be able to feel that the spinner is spinning
We can get it to about
Trying to get it to like two and a half miles per hour might be kind of tough with a big mower
Yeah, definitely
Yeah, yep, he's got he's a bit in that
sleep regression phase so waking up quite a bit due to
teething and those things but
Yeah, it's a
Fatherhood's amazing. No, I can't I can't replace it and like it fixes a lot of stuff
You're always worried about or like spending time on this and
Whatever you need to do now as a dad. It's like it's so easy
It's just like now I got to do it. I got to show show the kid how how it's done and
Yeah, everything just clears up a little bit
Down to about five feet here
And then three
You
Do you have a favorite
Approach at walleye when you're targeting them
I grew up just jiggin leech. Yeah
We never really did much of the cast in
Gotcha
Yeah, I found that when you're on
a
Jiggin spot
The biggest cheat code is a spot lock with your trolling motor
That's just makes a world of difference. We go we go up occasionally
to Canada with my uncle and
Me and my cousin Michael will get the camp boat with the little a 40 horsepower behind us no trolling mower motor
So it's just like trying to stay on the spot. He's over there with his spot lock just camped out
Show me like what do you guys it's got to get on the spot. It's like trying
Known for good good walleye fishermen fishing, but it's also
Pay a little bit more so big bluegill and big pike. It's probably the most commonly targeted thing
Yes
Yeah, if we if we don't catch anything it's because of the rain and the cold and if we catch stuff
It's because of the rain and the cold
It's a good efficient. It's always a good excuse. Yeah
Well, I did yeah, I did cut it off cut off work a little bit early. I got everyone got everyone what they need to do
They're what are you doing?
Gotta meet with PBS Wisconsin
Yeah, right and yeah, they wanted to go fishing so
You
You've been out to your property yet this fall
Nice pretty muted colors
Gotcha were you working on trails or setting up cameras or anything? Yeah
We it's so dry
I had
Couple nice bucks. It's a bill coming through my new standard back marsh
Oh, so I don't know if it's just been so dry and so hot
We have a cricket runs to the background property
Game and up up just north of me as soon as it freezes over it changes from up
They'll cross the creek and once it freezes over it goes down about a half mile and then right there
There's just deer all of the time once it once that happens
My uncle is the adjoining 80 and his
woods and some marsh and some cribs, but
It's pretty more a little more consistent than ours ours is entirely to try to know what how high the water is gotcha
The beaver or in screw it something up then all of a sudden changes right, so we really have to pay it
I criticize hunters who are dear. Don't seem to do anymore. So the ones the last time you check your stance. Yeah, right
Yeah
And those uh those marshes that can kind of go in between being very flooded and not
And being pretty dry that really changes it too because if there's like
If it dries up and it's truly like you can walk on it
That's a great deer bedding area and they love it whereas like if it comes back up
For whatever reason beavers or anything else. They can't they can't sleep in there. It's gonna be a lot different
Yeah, that's what we have that ship will come
Right now we get rains for a week where they're running out. We'll change completely by the time I go on
Yeah, right
I don't get too excited of what I see or don't see this time of year. Yeah
Yeah, it changes and
Yep
What neighbor shot the ten point block I was after
I
That was us last year. There's there's like a hundred and fifty
Right across a public land right across from my brother-in-law's property and the two nice bucks for a watchin
What's up? I'm on Facebook like within two weeks of the season. I
Bet it's a tough was a tough early season for bear
Just because the acorn like as soon as it was seasoned acorns like that
Daughters
Nice nice
Okay
Gotcha
Oh
So
Really I both spots are just a little both they knew something happened
Right and like if you got a
The effort to get all your bait out there to another whole walk to get to a spot
You want the trail usually it'll support one route out in the you go twice you're gonna sink gotcha
It's it what's that like yeah boggy kind of
There's just enough muck in there that if we want to we need to get back there we can but we can't run
Gotcha
How is the
just all the
Info collecting and everything for the walleye series going
Yeah, this is our last week for
Crazy move to bail out Argentinian soybeans to me crazy
Depends on how deeply you want to read into the context of who actually benefit the most
It was so it's something to do with like geopolitical and like Argentina has some claim on oil somewhere something like that
So the Argentinian prison president that just got elected yeah came in on a very similar to Trump populist reform
reduced like they're trying to make our
Allies just whoever has similar policies to us and like form of government at this given time, which is wild
Not historically it's not really what that's what no
All right, I think yeah, if we want to roll it in here, we'll
We'll go back that way and just go out a little bit farther to get it just slightly deeper
you
You know because with that rain cool down dropping very metric pressure they're gonna be 10 to 11 feet maybe
Are you much of an ice fisherman
Right out there kids again
Here's and the thing about me, they're very curious still
Yeah, yeah, maybe that can be a good and a bad thing I guess
Is that like spinning in the water finally yeah
I feel that just that little vibration yep
This would be should be a little bit better going against the wind we get more like 2.4 miles an hour which would be a little bit better
There's still a few small cabins out here yep, yeah, and there's a lot of
Some of these resorts to where you see like they have that thing going on
They're kind of parsing those off now because you know you can you can sell something like that for a buck 50 now
So it kind of kind of can pay
Yep
Nothing
And then they're all bought up by an LLC
You
You guys been to the Ashland co-op
Yeah
It's a it's a it's kind of like the grocery store in town in Ashland. It's really really nice. We do business with them
Yeah, just get a nice deli and stuff kind of surprise you wouldn't necessarily expect it, but yeah, it's a really nice little grocery store
The other thing I've been meaning to do in Ashland is they have that little
On the so when you're coming in you go past the
Just coming into town you pass the big spit the beach everything right in the beat on the beach front
There's a little well house within our t-shirt well there
I keep meaning it's like I think we got to move the operation up there. That sounds like good water
According to the mayor
Okay, gotcha
It's very proud of it and he's very angry at the state because they built a new water treatment facility for prison instead of buying water from town
He wanted that to be something with some payback
Yeah, currently years ago like they had water issues
Had to sink money into the system. Yeah, it's a rated as like about drinking water
See a little movie magic. Yep
Yeah, pretty much the only structure on this whole chain because if you notice there's like no weeds basically
It's all kind of fallen logs. This might actually be a crib right there
There's quite a bit of effort done to get structure here, but
I
I'm sure at the diver kid have a good day down there
Did you
Story so yeah, I can do about
All right, maybe I'll just do one thing at a time
Oh
So do you use a leader for northern out here? Yeah, if I was targeting them for sure
Yeah, those crawler harnesses are kind of notorious for being bitten off
You guys gonna listen to the brew game on the way back
Yeah, although I
I'm always conflicted as a fan
During the playoffs because I don't follow them enough during the regular season
I feel like such a fan wagon jump. So I always I always feel bad. Yeah, we should listen to it
Well, if it's that or that CD you brought
How old is this van what you guys got CD?
There's no phone connection
Especially when you're driving to Ashland like you're just going in between one to two bars the whole time yep
That looks like the fish on the bottom
Little arc
No, that's how's calling if you know who's the hardest
You're from rice lake. Yeah, well, I'm not how far is comedy
Yeah, usually Zach and I just sit in silence
You know, we'll talk about but we never listen to music on radio
Do you guys do like when you're driving alone will you do ghost silent? Yeah, I think it's good sometimes
It is good, you know, see what your thoughts are at where your pets at, you know
Might have had a tick there might have
No, I agree sometime when it's when it's the you need to think through something. Yeah, I just shut everything off
Because you only get so many opportunities like that's what we're hoping they're stacked up in
So to see you've got the rod over it is going to use it
Yeah, it's like to feel it if I I'll find myself going in between too many things if I have to watch this
So just having it a
Feel thing helps me a little bit
Yeah
Yeah, I just was up at an ADF
Last week to pick up some we order fish food together save on some save on some shipping
I
Know it's always good to get up there, but one of their managers owns a kind of apple or chured farm with a tap house
They do ciders and stuff the houses farm and that's just north of an ADF or kind of
More into the peninsula a little bit, but you get up there and have a great view of Lake Superior
That was a that was a nice time
Well, she's out on maternity though, right? Yep. Yeah, I just had her hazel
Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, so it sounded like just talked to her a little bit Emma and sounds like everything's going good
So that's funny though. You have a kid and it's like feels like everybody's having a kid all of a sudden
Which is awesome. You love the
Misery loves company is the wrong way to say it, but
That's what usually happens especially for your first scene if you find a baby group. Yeah, it's all first-time parents, right?
I don't know if you're
Not not super we do have like within our friend group. There is like another
pregnancy and
Another my other partner just has a eight-month-old daughter, so we're kind of have a few people right around
Usually it's like if you take like the birthing class
Mm-hmm. You meet people there. Yeah
Like if you in Madison, there's like all sorts of different like where the place stores that have stuff just for those moms
Gotcha
And so they're going to meet all the other expected moms. They're all first time. Yeah
like
Actually from my daughter
She was at a cross-country meet last week and we ran into one of the other kids that
Like I've seen since he was a baby in that group gotcha
Yeah, it's gotta be night like just the developmental stages and like well
Where is where's yours at? You know, are they taking solid food yet? All those little things?
You
Is there any sort of
I worry about, you know, just funding everything the ship being able to run and
Yeah
Yeah, so we're better off than some places
The question is what's left and what can we do and does that create the death spiral?
That you saw or you seen in newspapers
Quality, you know, people go down quality goes down then who wants to listen
Yeah, we'll just kind of punch through here and then we'll
We'll get over to that other troll
All right, you know, you'll get hit by a bluegill and half of it's gone or something, but
Yeah, yeah, probably probably a good time done
And then we'll buzz over to the other one
I
Also had a
Gosh, I forget her name. She's also with PBS
Wisconsin, I'm pretty sure the hope in the water series
You know, that is that