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I think that's a good topic to have, we have a portfolio class.

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At this whole new working area complex, we want to keep us productive while I'm working on the entire system,

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but you know we've addressed it in the 1960s.

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We asked them to go out and they go back to it, and they won't stop me,

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and still treat us with this market right here for an increase,

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which is the property understanding, why it's all packed.

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Out of all the sites, we're probably going to be 15 to 20,

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and this site, that's a lot of space.

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I think we're going to pack here long.

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And just like, you know, get a drink and drink,

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and you'll be able to do more time.

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Yeah, look at the multiple waters.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Nice day.

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I thought it'd be a lot colder.

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Yeah, I thought it'd be a little giving me the 20s.

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When you said that, I'm like, oh no.

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They're looking like, what's he talking about?

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I'm the athlete.

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All right, sorry, I'm glad I'm set.

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All right.

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Excuse me.

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No.

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Sorry.

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Is that nice?

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That's all there is now through the past.

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Ok.

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Don't wait.

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I'll be prepared.

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See you next time.

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Let's go.

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Let's go.

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Easy.

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Hey, Luis.

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I like to get a big one, so it's just about to be in for the bus, isn't it?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, you have to send it as well.

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Yeah, you have to send it as well.

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Yeah, you have to send it as well.

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If you do that, hold on to their sheet.

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If you guys watch, you have plenty of opportunity.

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Don't stick any parts of your body in the water for any reason at any time should be pretty

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straightforward.

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If you drop anything in the water and we like, drop the net in the water, your hat, something

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we need to pick it up, make sure to ask Angela if the juice is off before we go for it.

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If we get up into like some woody areas and you get your net caught on a tree limb or

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a branch or something, like, don't, like, you can just drop the net, like, yeah, you

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can try to get it off.

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But if it's really stuck in there, I've actually snapped the net myself trying to try

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it too hard.

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So I'd rather not snap nets and just go back and pick it up the black handle once you float.

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The biggest thing is trying not to knock my teeth out with the end of the pulp.

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Well, there it's probably the most dangerous thing, which is also why you will be back

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here.

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But yeah, other than that, Jason will open the tank up with some water in there and we're

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pretty much ready to go.

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25 feet of water out here on the main channel.

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All right, Jason, you're going to start time down.

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All right, you guys ready to go?

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So probably well educated anglers alike will always point to small diameter rock, gravel

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with water flow either in a river or a wind swept shoreline with good wave action to keep

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the eggs free of sediment as well as provide aeration for development, the water quality

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parameters there to keep the eggs free of sediment and while oxygenated is the same for when

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a bigger system will arrive however they spawn on a different substrate being marsh grass.

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So how that works is you typically have a upper end of the marsh and a lower end of

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the marsh, the marsh will basically have a directional flow going through it over toppling

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at the top end and then the marsh grass will get pushed back in the current kind of creating

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a mat and that's where the fish will lay their eggs.

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So they are kind of unique to the wind and bagel system and I would say the wind and

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bagel system is probably the largest marsh spawning walleye strain, probably that's even up there.

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A little pike just jumped right there, that'll get 30 inches.

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Yeah right now the new London river gate is at around 9.7, we've been out here doing

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this and that gate is at 1.5, when all the barges are completely dry and they're shocking

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the main channel of the river so hydro graph of the Wolf River can have some pretty impressive

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but you have five people on the boat down here, I've been told it's a pretty strict

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before but I got the target, I mean you could probably fit five people in here it's just

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at the boat.

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It was already drawn in before yeah, especially you got a camera.

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Yeah.

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Are you guys covered with stardins peering?

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No, we're just really focusing on walleye, pretty.

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Have you seen a, I'm pretty sure it's a PBS documentary, The Frozen Frozen?

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I think so yeah, that's pretty cool.

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Well that's basically out of our office, most of the coverage kind of camping around breath.

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Yeah that really gets fish in these marshes is the river will have much more thermal resistance,

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much more volume because it's a lot deeper.

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So when the water overtops the bank on the upper end and flows through the marsh it's

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much shallower, typically a dark bottom so if it's a sunny day or the sun will hit that

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dark bottom and warm the water up so then when the water travels through the marsh and

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exits at its downstream location it will basically create a temperature gradient where it's meeting

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the river and that's what's going to bring those fish into the marsh they want to go

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up there and spawn.

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That being said when we have a warm up and then things cool down really quickly you'll

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actually start to see warmer temperatures in the river comparatively to the marshes and

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that kind of shuts things down until it warms back up.

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The male fish will basically start to show up on the marshes as soon as the ice breaks

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up and then the females will start to find a couple hanging around in the lower portions

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of the marsh around 38 to 40 degrees and then things really start going crazy when you get

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to that 42 to 44 degree mark and then go well into when it's even upwards of that.

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This is our low the spawning marshes will not have any water in them so high water that

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we have right now is excellent direction on the highest I've seen it in my five seasons

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but that being said what you really need is the water to maintain its high level status

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one of the worst things that can happen for a while our spawn is for the water to come

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up really fast all the fish will enter the upper ends of the marshes so let all their

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eggs run up the water rapidly drops after that all of those eggs are left high and dry so

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what you really want for a successful all our spawn on the system here is high consistent

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water and you also like to see a relatively stable climb in water temperatures without

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massive fluctuations some years when we observed really rapid warm up followed by a long duration

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of colder temperatures we have seen that cause some disorder in the success of any given

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year class we observe and if you guys also have that story on the trial you did the amount

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of those little guys that we catch basically tells us how well the fish did up here and

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you give them spring

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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not sure if you guys are what kind of marsh visits you had with walls for tomorrow but at the upper

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end of this marsh there's a project type it's pretty common for the spawning marshes as

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there's been a long history of roads being built there's a big railroad going through

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one private landowners making roads and trails so kind of just restoring that is the intention

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there

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yeah they're great

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they're well funded they usually have the financial backing to do all the cool extra

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curricular stuff that we want to do

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like some of those movement studies that we've done like there's no way we'd be able to afford that

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on the state budget without groups like walleyes for tomorrow and many others on the system

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and the fall of 2021 we tagged 74 adult walleye in Lake Winnebago proper so

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tagging them in the fall in the lake basically you know indicating that those are true when a

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bagel resident fish and then we were with several things we were looking at that one of the primary

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purposes of that was to see the proportions of fish that ran up the wolf river the fox river

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or stayed in the lake to spawn and from that study we saw 91% of fish run up the wolf river

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so the wolf river is most definitely the most prolific productive spawning area for the Winnebago

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system law the Winnebago system law population and its general success really does pay

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respect to the amount of spawning habitat and the quality of spawning habitat that we have

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up here on the wall it's about 100 miles from Lake Pergin up to the Shano dam of

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undammed rivers so a lot of connected flood train and wetland between here and there

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providing a lot of areas for fish to spawn successfully there's some marshes that will operate

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at certain water levels and other marshes that require other ones so you know we have our

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water area marshes that will target and our high water area marshes that we target

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but this one right here that we're in it's kind of the new London area complex we have

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vinegars wolf rafts Leslie's and Hortonville flats and this has been one of the most prolific

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spawning marshes on the system documented all the way back to Gordon Prego's work way back in the

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1960s

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the lower ends of the marshes are typically where the female fish will stage up before

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going into the oh that's a big part that's about 35 bucks

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the females will stage down in the lower end before going up to the upper end of the marsh

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you actually drop their eggs and spawn the upper ends are typically shower you'll see more

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that marsh trash getting blown back and active current up there and we typically like to

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focus our survey efforts down in the lower end to capture pre-spawn first and then basically

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leave the upper ends alone like the first spawn

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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I think it's the deep water we're in six and a half feet right here we're not even gonna see everything

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well it's like when the water comes up on the low angles can also struggle the fish just

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have so much more area to spread out also it can just be a little bit more difficult to fish in the traditional

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ways a lot of the river fishing can do and flows are extremely high

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we can also have struggles with our survey back here in the marshes

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the water exceeds much over five feet the electricity

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it doesn't really penetrate down much further than that so I kind of have to go really small

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and then maybe try to get some more shallow areas

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so yeah this is just like interesting to see honestly it leaves a lot

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:05,040
so

264
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:13,040
so

265
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:17,040
so

266
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:21,040
so

267
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:25,040
so

268
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:33,040
so

269
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:41,040
so

270
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:45,040
so

271
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:49,040
so

272
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:57,040
so

273
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:01,040
so

274
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:09,040
so

275
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:15,040
so

276
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,040
so

277
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:23,040
so

278
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:27,040
so

279
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:35,040
so

280
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:39,040
so

281
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,040
so

282
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:47,040
so

283
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,040
so

284
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:55,040
so

285
00:27:55,040 --> 00:28:03,040
so

286
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:07,040
so

287
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,040
so

288
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:19,040
so

289
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:23,040
so

290
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:31,040
so

291
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,040
so

292
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,040
so

293
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:55,040
so

294
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,040
so

295
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,040
so

296
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,040
so

297
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:23,040
so

298
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:27,040
so

299
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,040
so

300
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,040
so

301
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:47,040
so

302
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,040
so

303
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,040
so

304
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,040
so

305
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:03,040
so

306
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,040
so

307
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:11,040
so

308
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,040
so

309
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:23,040
so

310
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:27,040
so

311
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:31,040
so

312
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,040
so

313
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:39,040
so

314
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:43,040
so

315
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:51,040
so

316
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:55,040
so

317
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,040
so

318
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:03,040
so

319
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:07,040
so

320
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:15,040
so

321
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,040
so

322
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,040
so

323
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,040
so

324
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:31,040
so

325
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:39,040
so

326
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:43,040
so

327
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:47,040
so

328
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:57,040
so

329
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,040
so

330
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:07,040
so

331
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,040
so

332
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:15,040
so

333
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:19,040
so

334
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,040
so

335
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:27,040
so

336
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:35,040
so

337
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,040
so

338
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,040
so

339
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:47,040
so

340
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:51,040
so

341
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:55,040
so

342
00:32:55,040 --> 00:33:03,040
so

343
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:07,040
so

344
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:11,040
so

345
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,040
so

346
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:19,040
so

347
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:23,040
so

348
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:31,040
so

349
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,040
so

350
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,040
so

351
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,040
so

352
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:47,040
so

353
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,040
so

354
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:59,040
so

355
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:03,040
so

356
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:07,040
so

357
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:11,040
so

358
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:15,040
so

359
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,040
so

360
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:27,040
so

361
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:33,040
so

362
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,040
so

363
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:39,040
so

364
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,040
so

365
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,040
so

366
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:51,040
so

367
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,040
so

368
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:59,040
so

369
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:03,040
so

370
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,040
so

371
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,040
so

372
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:11,040
so

373
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:15,040
so

374
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:19,040
so

375
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,040
so

376
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:27,040
so

377
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:31,040
so

378
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:39,040
so

379
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:43,040
so

380
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,040
so

381
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:51,040
so

382
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,040
so

383
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:59,040
so

384
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:03,040
so

385
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,040
so

386
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:11,040
so

387
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:15,040
so

388
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,040
so

389
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:23,040
so

390
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:27,040
so

391
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:35,040
so

392
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,040
so

393
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:43,040
so

394
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:47,040
so

395
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,040
so

396
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:55,040
so

397
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:59,040
so

398
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:03,040
so

399
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:07,040
so

400
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:15,040
so

401
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:19,040
so

402
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:23,040
so

403
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:27,040
so

404
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:31,040
so

405
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:35,040
so

406
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:43,040
so

407
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,040
so

408
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,040
so

409
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:55,040
so

410
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,040
so

411
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:03,040
so

412
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:11,040
so

413
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:15,040
so

414
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:19,040
so

415
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:27,040
so

416
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,040
so

417
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,040
so

418
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:39,040
so

419
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:43,040
so

420
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:47,040
so

421
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:51,040
so

422
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:55,040
so

423
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:59,040
so

424
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:07,040
so

425
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:11,040
so

426
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:15,040
so

427
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:19,040
so

428
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:23,040
so

429
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:29,040
so

430
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:35,040
so

431
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,040
so

432
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:43,040
so

433
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,040
so

434
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:51,040
so

435
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:55,040
so

436
00:39:55,040 --> 00:40:03,040
so

437
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:07,040
so

438
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:11,040
so

439
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:15,040
so

440
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:19,040
so

441
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,040
so

442
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:31,040
so

443
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:35,040
so

444
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:39,040
so

445
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:47,040
so

446
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:51,040
so

447
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:55,040
so

448
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:59,040
so

449
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:03,040
so

450
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:07,040
so

451
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:11,040
so

452
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:15,040
so

453
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:19,040
so

454
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:23,040
so

455
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:27,040
so

456
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:31,040
so

457
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,040
so

458
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,040
so

459
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,040
so

460
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,040
so

461
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:47,040
so

462
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,040
so

463
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,040
so

464
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:59,040
so

465
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,040
so

466
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:07,040
so

467
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:11,040
so

468
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:15,040
so

469
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,040
so

470
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:23,040
so

471
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,040
so

472
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:31,040
so

473
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:35,040
so

474
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:39,040
so

475
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,040
so

476
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:47,040
so

477
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:51,040
so

478
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,040
so

479
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:59,040
so

480
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:03,040
so

481
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,040
so

482
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:11,040
so

483
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:19,040
so

484
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:23,040
so

485
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:27,040
so

486
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:31,040
so

487
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:35,040
so

488
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,040
so

489
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:43,040
so

490
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:47,040
so

491
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,040
so

492
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:55,040
so

493
00:43:55,040 --> 00:44:01,040
so

494
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,040
so

495
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:07,040
so if you get a shot of that right there that is the

496
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:11,040
right now when the water is so high the water is going to flood the river

497
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:15,040
regardless because you know it's going to over top the bank even where that

498
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:19,040
bank cut does not exist but in lower water years that really helps

499
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:23,040
to facilitate water getting into the marsh it's actually really

500
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:27,040
impressive how much water water it's doing and then you can see it feeds directly

501
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:31,040
into the marsh and again this is one of the most

502
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:35,040
most productive while I'm spawning marshes on the entire system you can see that little cut

503
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:43,040
right through the woods there

504
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:49,040
so

505
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:53,040
you could even drive the boat through there on a day like today

506
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:09,040
So yeah that one really gets flowing around six seven feet and right

507
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,040
now we're approaching ten feet so

508
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:17,040
a

509
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,040
little bit more rain in the forecast as well

510
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:33,040
in addition to

511
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:37,040
providing aeration and keeping the eggs free of

512
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:41,040
sediment and debris as they develop the water flow through

513
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:45,040
the marsh also I'm back into the wolf river and some

514
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:49,040
secretly down into the pool lakes on the system where the

515
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:53,040
zooplankton hatches which is their primary food source of larval fish are

516
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:57,040
much more abundant

517
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:01,040
The faster a larval fish can get a piece of zooplankton

518
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:05,040
in front of its face the more likely it is it's going to

519
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:09,040
survive

520
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:19,040
that also plays into temperature temperature can

521
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:23,040
be correlated to more or less

522
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:27,040
productive zooplankton booms

523
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,040
if you have eight

524
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:39,040
six

525
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,040
five

526
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,040
eight

527
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:51,040
eight

528
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:55,040
eight

529
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:59,040
eight

530
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:03,040
eight

531
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

532
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,040
I'm going to take a look at this.

533
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

534
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

535
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

536
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

537
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

538
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

539
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

540
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

541
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

542
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

543
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

544
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

545
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

546
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

547
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

548
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

549
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

550
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

551
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:15,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

552
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

553
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

554
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

555
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

556
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

557
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

558
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

559
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

560
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

561
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

562
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

563
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:39,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

564
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

565
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

566
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

567
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

568
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

569
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

570
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

571
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

572
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

573
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

574
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

575
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

576
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

577
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

578
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

579
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

580
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

581
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

582
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

583
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

584
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

585
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

586
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

587
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

588
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

589
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

590
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

591
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

592
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

593
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

594
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

595
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

596
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

597
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

598
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

599
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:51,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

600
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

601
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

602
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:57,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

603
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

604
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

605
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

606
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

607
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

608
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:09,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

609
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

610
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

611
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

612
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

613
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

614
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

615
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

616
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

617
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

618
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

619
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

620
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

621
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

622
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

623
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:41,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

624
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,040
I'm going to take a look at this one look.

625
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

626
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

627
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

628
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,040
I'm going to take a look at this one.

629
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,040
I am going to take a look at this one.

630
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,040
I am going to take a look at this one.

631
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:58,040
I am going to take a look at this one.

632
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,040
I am going to take a look at this one.

633
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:01,040
Don't forget this thing.

634
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:02,040
No, don't forget this thing.

635
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:06,040
No, no, no, no.

636
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:07,040
15-0.

637
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:08,040
Hold tight.

638
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:09,040
2-1-3-6-6-8.

639
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:10,040
Good go.

640
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:11,040
You're out.

641
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:12,040
Log fell off.

642
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:13,040
I don't have a motor right here.

643
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:14,040
There's a thin glass right out of it.

644
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:15,040
Good.

645
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:16,040
Good.

646
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:17,040
Good.

647
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:18,040
Good.

648
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:19,040
Good.

649
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:20,040
Good.

650
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:21,040
Good.

651
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:22,040
Good.

652
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:23,040
Good.

653
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:24,040
Good.

654
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:25,040
Good.

655
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:26,040
Good.

656
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:27,040
Good.

657
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:28,040
Good.

658
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:29,040
Good.

659
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:30,040
Good.

660
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:31,040
Good.

661
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:32,040
Good.

662
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:33,040
Good.

663
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:34,040
Good.

664
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:35,040
Good.

665
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:39,040
Now I get this recap out of the way.

666
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:43,040
Record fresh recaps this year, unless you didn't get them the same day.

667
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,040
Obviously these aren't from the same day.

668
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:52,040
This is a fisher probably tagged a couple days ago.

669
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:57,040
You see how bright yellow the tag is still.

670
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:58,040
You're very common.

671
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:04,040
One of the biggest system walleye here.

672
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:12,360
15.6 and the whole tag number is 208-411, yeah that was a recap right?

673
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:13,360
Yeah.

674
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:14,360
No!

675
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:15,360
14-9.

676
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:16,360
No!

677
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:17,360
15-0.

678
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:19,360
No!

679
00:52:23,180 --> 00:52:24,520
No!

680
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,520
15-0!

681
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,400
No! 16-7!

682
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,000
No! 16-1!

683
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,320
No!

684
00:52:46,320 --> 00:53:03,960
female green 19-2 a bunch of grass in here

685
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:09,400
have a green grass 17-2 last time on the rock

686
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:14,480
drag track 2-1-3-6-7-5

687
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:36,940
salar sequence

688
00:53:36,940 --> 00:53:38,940
okay

689
00:53:38,940 --> 00:53:46,940
Oh boy, 18-9.

690
00:53:46,940 --> 00:53:52,940
May I 18-4?

691
00:53:52,940 --> 00:53:56,940
Let me take you home.

692
00:53:56,940 --> 00:54:01,940
May I 14-0?

693
00:54:01,940 --> 00:54:06,940
May I 16-4?

694
00:54:06,940 --> 00:54:11,940
BMO!

695
00:54:11,940 --> 00:54:16,940
Green!

696
00:54:16,940 --> 00:54:19,940
22-0?

697
00:54:19,940 --> 00:54:26,940
I had a 28 entry yesterday.

698
00:54:26,940 --> 00:54:31,940
She was spawned out there, so I've seen a lot less impressive.

699
00:54:31,940 --> 00:54:34,940
17-0?

700
00:54:34,940 --> 00:54:39,940
17-0?

701
00:54:39,940 --> 00:54:44,940
13-2?

702
00:54:44,940 --> 00:54:49,940
13-4?

703
00:54:49,940 --> 00:54:54,940
13-4?

704
00:54:54,940 --> 00:54:59,940
13-5?

705
00:54:59,940 --> 00:55:04,940
15-0?

706
00:55:04,940 --> 00:55:09,940
Green!

707
00:55:09,940 --> 00:55:12,940
21-1?

708
00:55:12,940 --> 00:55:22,940
Nice one.

709
00:55:22,940 --> 00:55:28,940
13-5?

710
00:55:28,940 --> 00:55:36,940
13-9?

711
00:55:36,940 --> 00:55:51,940
Green! 23-7?

712
00:55:51,940 --> 00:55:56,940
Green!

713
00:55:56,940 --> 00:56:03,940
22-6?

714
00:56:03,940 --> 00:56:08,940
Green!

715
00:56:08,940 --> 00:56:13,940
22-6?

716
00:56:13,940 --> 00:56:18,940
13-9?

717
00:56:18,940 --> 00:56:23,940
13-9?

718
00:56:24,940 --> 00:56:31,940
May I 18-2?

719
00:56:31,940 --> 00:56:39,940
May I 18-9?

720
00:56:39,940 --> 00:56:46,940
May I 15-3?

721
00:56:46,940 --> 00:56:51,940
May I 14-6?

722
00:56:51,940 --> 00:56:59,940
May I 17-6?

723
00:56:59,940 --> 00:57:06,940
May I 15-1?

724
00:57:06,940 --> 00:57:11,940
May I 16-7?

725
00:57:11,940 --> 00:57:14,940
May I 16-9?

726
00:57:14,940 --> 00:57:19,940
Last time on the rack, next fish coming as a recap?

727
00:57:19,940 --> 00:57:23,940
May I 15-1?

728
00:57:23,940 --> 00:57:34,940
Tag is 208417?

729
00:57:34,940 --> 00:57:39,940
Oh, gotcha.

730
00:57:39,940 --> 00:57:43,940
May I 15-3?

731
00:57:43,940 --> 00:57:49,940
Hold tag, 2-1-3-7-0-2?

732
00:57:49,940 --> 00:57:54,940
May I 15-6?

733
00:57:54,940 --> 00:57:59,940
May I 16-1?

734
00:57:59,940 --> 00:58:04,940
May I 15-6?

735
00:58:04,940 --> 00:58:11,940
May I 15-5?

736
00:58:11,940 --> 00:58:19,940
May I 16-7?

737
00:58:19,940 --> 00:58:24,940
May I 14-4?

738
00:58:24,940 --> 00:58:27,940
May I 13-9?

739
00:58:27,940 --> 00:58:30,940
Tag check, oh, 9?

740
00:58:31,940 --> 00:58:38,940
Green, 19-2?

741
00:58:38,940 --> 00:58:44,940
May I 15-7?

742
00:58:44,940 --> 00:58:50,940
May I 14-2?

743
00:58:50,940 --> 00:58:55,940
May I 15-3?

744
00:58:56,940 --> 00:59:00,940
May I 19-0?

745
00:59:00,940 --> 00:59:03,940
Got a tag?

746
00:59:03,940 --> 00:59:09,940
May I 15-1?

747
00:59:09,940 --> 00:59:17,940
May I 16-3?

748
00:59:17,940 --> 00:59:25,940
May I 17-2?

749
00:59:25,940 --> 00:59:30,940
May I 18-2?

750
00:59:30,940 --> 00:59:40,940
Green, 21-2?

751
00:59:40,940 --> 00:59:45,940
May I 15-1?

752
00:59:45,940 --> 00:59:52,940
May I 18-1?

753
00:59:52,940 --> 00:59:58,940
May I 16-7?

754
00:59:58,940 --> 01:00:02,940
May I 16-3?

755
01:00:02,940 --> 01:00:09,940
May I 14-2?

756
01:00:09,940 --> 01:00:11,940
May I 16-2?

757
01:00:11,940 --> 01:00:16,940
Last time on the rack, tag check, 21-3-7-2-5?

758
01:00:16,940 --> 01:00:28,940
Yeah?

759
01:00:28,940 --> 01:00:33,940
Fimo green, 19-1?

760
01:00:33,940 --> 01:00:36,940
May I get a tag check on the next time?

761
01:00:36,940 --> 01:00:40,940
Fimo green, 20-0?

762
01:00:40,940 --> 01:00:45,940
Tag check, 27?

763
01:00:45,940 --> 01:00:51,940
15-1.

764
01:00:51,940 --> 01:00:57,940
15-2.

765
01:00:57,940 --> 01:01:03,940
15-8.

766
01:01:03,940 --> 01:01:08,940
15-1.

767
01:01:08,940 --> 01:01:13,940
15-5.

768
01:01:14,940 --> 01:01:19,940
Boy, 15-5.

769
01:01:19,940 --> 01:01:26,940
Boy, 15-5.

770
01:01:26,940 --> 01:01:36,940
Boy, 14-7.

771
01:01:36,940 --> 01:01:40,940
Spent girl.

772
01:01:40,940 --> 01:01:49,940
19-4.

773
01:01:49,940 --> 01:01:57,940
10-check 3-5.

774
01:01:57,940 --> 01:02:04,940
No, 16-6.

775
01:02:04,940 --> 01:02:10,940
No, 19-3.

776
01:02:10,940 --> 01:02:15,940
No, 14-8.

777
01:02:15,940 --> 01:02:21,940
No, 14-6.

778
01:02:21,940 --> 01:02:27,940
No, 14-0.

779
01:02:27,940 --> 01:02:32,940
No, 17-6.

780
01:02:32,940 --> 01:02:38,940
No, 14-5.

781
01:02:38,940 --> 01:02:45,940
15-1.

782
01:02:45,940 --> 01:02:50,940
18-0.

783
01:02:50,940 --> 01:02:56,940
14-0.

784
01:02:56,940 --> 01:03:01,940
15-3.

785
01:03:01,940 --> 01:03:04,940
16-1.

786
01:03:04,940 --> 01:03:07,940
Yeah, we'll get that.

787
01:03:07,940 --> 01:03:14,940
It's called cold water works or lymphocystis.

788
01:03:14,940 --> 01:03:17,940
No, 19.

789
01:03:17,940 --> 01:03:25,940
We need low 19s.

790
01:03:25,940 --> 01:03:36,940
It's way back.

791
01:03:36,940 --> 01:03:43,940
Back it.

792
01:03:43,940 --> 01:03:52,940
We need a small number of fish for an age sample.

793
01:03:52,940 --> 01:03:58,940
That was 19-4.

794
01:03:58,940 --> 01:04:01,940
No, 14-4.

795
01:04:01,940 --> 01:04:07,940
Tag-check 4-8.

796
01:04:07,940 --> 01:04:13,940
No, 15-4.

797
01:04:13,940 --> 01:04:14,940
No, 14-4.

798
01:04:14,940 --> 01:04:16,940
Last tag on the rack.

799
01:04:16,940 --> 01:04:30,940
Tag-check 2-1-3-7-5-0.

800
01:04:30,940 --> 01:04:32,940
No, 16-2.

801
01:04:32,940 --> 01:04:38,940
Hold tag 2-1-3-7-5-1.

802
01:04:38,940 --> 01:04:43,940
No, 13-9.

803
01:04:43,940 --> 01:04:49,940
No, 16-5.

804
01:04:49,940 --> 01:04:56,940
No, 14-8.

805
01:04:56,940 --> 01:05:02,940
No, 18-4.

806
01:05:02,940 --> 01:05:07,940
No, 16-6.

807
01:05:07,940 --> 01:05:13,940
Tag-check 56.

808
01:05:13,940 --> 01:05:19,940
15-8-10.

809
01:05:19,940 --> 01:05:32,940
Hold tag 2-1-3-7-5-7.

810
01:05:32,940 --> 01:05:41,940
No, 15-4.

811
01:05:41,940 --> 01:05:48,940
No, 15-4.

812
01:05:48,940 --> 01:05:53,940
No, 15-7.

813
01:05:53,940 --> 01:06:00,940
No, 18-4.

814
01:06:00,940 --> 01:06:06,940
No, 14-9.

815
01:06:06,940 --> 01:06:14,940
16-5.

816
01:06:14,940 --> 01:06:24,940
16-2.

817
01:06:24,940 --> 01:06:31,940
15-2.

818
01:06:31,940 --> 01:06:38,940
15-4.

819
01:06:38,940 --> 01:06:44,940
15-4.

820
01:06:44,940 --> 01:06:51,940
15-8.

821
01:06:51,940 --> 01:06:57,940
13-6.

822
01:06:57,940 --> 01:07:04,940
15-7.

823
01:07:04,940 --> 01:07:05,940
15-3.

824
01:07:05,940 --> 01:07:07,940
Last tag on the rack.

825
01:07:07,940 --> 01:07:12,940
Tag-check 2-1-3-7-5-7-5-0.

826
01:07:12,940 --> 01:07:15,940
That was so good.

827
01:07:15,940 --> 01:07:18,940
We didn't sack one fish, did I get you up?

828
01:07:18,940 --> 01:07:20,940
No, I was-

829
01:07:20,940 --> 01:07:23,940
You ready?

830
01:07:23,940 --> 01:07:28,940
No, 14-5.

831
01:07:28,940 --> 01:07:31,940
No, 14-2.

832
01:07:31,940 --> 01:07:41,940
Hold tag 2-1-3-7-7-7-7.

833
01:07:41,940 --> 01:07:46,940
No, 13-7.

834
01:07:46,940 --> 01:07:49,940
Good girl.

835
01:07:49,940 --> 01:07:56,940
You may have green.

836
01:07:56,940 --> 01:08:01,940
24-3.

837
01:08:01,940 --> 01:08:06,940
Tag-check 2-1-3-7-7-8.

838
01:08:06,940 --> 01:08:14,940
2-1-3-7-7-9, I'm sorry.

839
01:08:14,940 --> 01:08:25,940
I was like, I just tag-check 2-1-7-2-7-2-8-9.

840
01:08:25,940 --> 01:08:30,940
Yep.

841
01:08:30,940 --> 01:08:35,940
No, 14-4.

842
01:08:35,940 --> 01:08:42,940
We need 12-13s.

843
01:08:42,940 --> 01:08:47,940
No.

844
01:08:47,940 --> 01:08:52,940
No, 13-3.

845
01:08:52,940 --> 01:08:55,940
Little guy.

846
01:08:55,940 --> 01:09:02,940
No, 16-3.

847
01:09:02,940 --> 01:09:09,940
No, 13-8.

848
01:09:09,940 --> 01:09:16,940
No, 17-1.

849
01:09:16,940 --> 01:09:21,940
No, 15-6.

850
01:09:21,940 --> 01:09:26,940
14-4.

851
01:09:26,940 --> 01:09:31,940
Tag-check 9-6.

852
01:09:31,940 --> 01:09:38,940
15-9.

853
01:09:38,940 --> 01:09:45,940
15-8.

854
01:09:45,940 --> 01:09:52,940
14-6.

855
01:09:53,940 --> 01:10:02,940
I'll be surprised they can hide in there sometimes.

856
01:10:02,940 --> 01:10:06,940
All right, probably all she wrote.

857
01:10:06,940 --> 01:10:11,940
There's one more tag on the rack, right?

858
01:10:11,940 --> 01:10:15,940
All right, we'll do one more quick run just in the lower end here.

859
01:10:15,940 --> 01:10:20,940
Try to pick off some girls and then probably get back on the trailer

860
01:10:20,940 --> 01:10:24,940
if you guys be on your way.

861
01:10:24,940 --> 01:10:28,940
I guess give me a sense of where we are and it looks a little different

862
01:10:28,940 --> 01:10:32,940
than it might in some years, but what is this place?

863
01:10:32,940 --> 01:10:36,940
Yeah, so it's April 6, 2026.

864
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The Wolf River Wall I spawn is definitely underway.

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Got some warmer weather here coming up that will probably really get things

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to get going here.

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It's one of the most important, Hortonville area marshes.

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One of the many marsh complexes that are found along the Wolf River

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where the Winnebago system all I come to spawn each spring.

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Most people that know anything about walleye spawning know gravel-based,

871
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rocky shores, so how does this fit into with walleye?

872
01:11:06,940 --> 01:11:08,940
What do they do this here?

873
01:11:08,940 --> 01:11:11,940
Yeah, so if you talk to biologists around the Midwest or even

874
01:11:11,940 --> 01:11:14,940
well-educated anglers when you talk about walleye spawning,

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a wild diameter rock or even gravel either in a river or a wind-swept shoreline

876
01:11:18,940 --> 01:11:22,940
on a lake that provides good current to keep the

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eggs free of sediment as well as well aerated during the development

878
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process, and those two water quality parameters here on the Wolf River

879
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are the same, however, the substrate on which the walleye spawn

880
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is very different. So the Winnebago strain of walleye are actually a

881
01:11:38,940 --> 01:11:42,940
marsh spawning strain of walleye, likely the most successful marsh spawning strain

882
01:11:42,940 --> 01:11:46,940
of walleye anywhere in the world. The fish come all the way

883
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from Winnebago and the pool lake, anywhere between 60 and maybe even

884
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pushing 100 miles on their journey upstream, so almost a

885
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could be a 200 mile round-trip journey forum. Basically

886
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what happens up here on the Wolf River as well as the upper

887
01:12:02,940 --> 01:12:06,940
Fox River, the flooded wetlands adjacent

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01:12:06,940 --> 01:12:10,940
to the Wolf River, we refer to them as walleye spawning marshes.

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The way that the water flows through them can be dynamic with the water from the river

890
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over topping the bank throughout several sections of the entire

891
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length of the marsh, but the general idea is that the water will enter

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at a upper end location and then travel in a

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directional fashion down through the marsh and exit at a lower end.

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So we typically always enter the marshes at the lower end, and that is

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also what the fish will typically do. The marshes are a lot shallower than the

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main channel of the river here, so they have a lot less thermal resistance. If you get a nice

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day, nice spring day, and the sun's coming down,

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the dark bottom of the marshes and the shallow water will heat up a lot faster,

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so as the water is making its way through the marsh,

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it'll actually heat up and then actually create a little bit of a temperature gradient at the lower end

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where it meets up with the river. The fish making their migration up river will feel that

902
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and enter the marsh to go spawn. So when we talk about

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habitat, there's a lot of stories about climate change

904
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and lake shore development, and this is pretty unique

905
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and the amount of people over decades that have made sure that this habitat

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01:13:18,940 --> 01:13:22,940
has not been drained or dredged or put into farmland

907
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or is still available for this. Yeah, so in general, the Winnebago system

908
01:13:26,940 --> 01:13:30,940
is home to one of the Midwest premier walleye fisheries.

909
01:13:30,940 --> 01:13:34,940
That being said, it is 100% sustained through natural reproduction and

910
01:13:34,940 --> 01:13:38,940
the success of that fishery really pays due to the

911
01:13:38,940 --> 01:13:42,940
amount and the quality of habitat up here

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01:13:42,940 --> 01:13:46,940
on the Wolf River for spawning purposes. There are different

913
01:13:46,940 --> 01:13:50,940
things that happen up here, like there's different county highways

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01:13:50,940 --> 01:13:54,940
that go across the floodplain that kind of create big dams and dykes. There's private land

915
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owners making trails and roads through their own property and then there's another one

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and a little bit south of here that has a big railroad going through it.

917
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Due to those kind of reasons, the disruption of that connectivity

918
01:14:06,940 --> 01:14:10,940
through those wetlands, that is typically viewed as bad for the

919
01:14:10,940 --> 01:14:14,940
water flow through those marshes. So groups like the Wisconsin Department of Natural

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01:14:14,940 --> 01:14:18,940
Resources, walleyes for tomorrow, shadows on the Wolf, and many others

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01:14:18,940 --> 01:14:22,940
that financially contribute will essentially conduct projects that promote the water

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flow through those marshes. A really common one is either the modification or removal

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01:14:26,940 --> 01:14:30,940
of dams and dykes that may have been put in from

924
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maybe potential road projects or private land owners

925
01:14:34,940 --> 01:14:38,940
wanting to make their property more accessible.

926
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There's also covert projects that

927
01:14:42,940 --> 01:14:46,940
again will either be put into a dam or a high point in a bank to help

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facilitate water flow. And then another common one are bank cuts.

929
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So in certain water level years, the water may not be high enough

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at the upper end of the marsh to actually over top the bank and then get that

931
01:14:58,940 --> 01:15:02,940
marsh flowing. So one of the more successful projects we have out

932
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there is making a cut in the upper end of the marsh to allow water

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to flow through at lower water levels. Right now here today

934
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I believe the new London gauge is right around 9.7. That is above flood

935
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stage. We have very high water this year. So we actually did have a bank

936
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cut up there. I tried pointing out to you guys, but as of right now

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the water is just totally over topping the bank. So in a lower water year when that's

938
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the only spot the water can get through there, you can really go out there and see the water gushing

939
01:15:30,940 --> 01:15:34,940
through that cut there. And then you can see it feed through the entire marsh creating that desirable

940
01:15:34,940 --> 01:15:38,940
flow that we want. When we talk about the whole life cycle of wall,

941
01:15:38,940 --> 01:15:42,940
they come up here to spawn and when the fry hatch, like they're eventually

942
01:15:42,940 --> 01:15:46,940
going to float their way down, right? Yep. So the fish

943
01:15:46,940 --> 01:15:50,940
the eggs will develop over a period of 10 to 14 days on average.

944
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However, it can be prolonged from that. If there is colder water times, it's directly

945
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related to water times. The colder the longer it will take. And then

946
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after the fish hatch out, they're dependent on that water flow going through that

947
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marsh to basically facilitate what we call larval drift. The fish will

948
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basically hatch out and swim up fry. Very low ability to have

949
01:16:10,940 --> 01:16:14,940
any kind of locomotion. They can basically just flip their towel around and swim up into the current

950
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and get carried down. And then what they're trying to do there is let the current take them

951
01:16:18,940 --> 01:16:22,940
back into the Wolf River that will eventually take them back into Lake Puygan and

952
01:16:22,940 --> 01:16:26,940
the rest of the pool lakes where there's no plankton food source is much more abundant than

953
01:16:26,940 --> 01:16:30,940
up here on the Wolf River. And when it comes to the tagging that you're doing

954
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like you've got the mass figured out, like the number of people

955
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I turned that in to give you that population estimates, right? Yep. So

956
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there's kind of two main, I would say three main purposes of the survey up here. One

957
01:16:42,940 --> 01:16:46,940
we're up here checking out all the marsh conditions, getting ideas for potential future projects.

958
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So that's just kind of an overarching general thing we're doing the whole time. Another

959
01:16:50,940 --> 01:16:54,940
thing is just all of our basic biometric data. So we're taking

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Langson fish, sex obviously, and then we do take a male age sample. That's a good way to look

961
01:16:58,940 --> 01:17:02,940
at how our year classes documented in the trail survey actually get recruited

962
01:17:02,940 --> 01:17:06,940
to the adult spawning stock. And then lastly we have

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our tagging effort. So we have a goal of 1,000 female fish

964
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every single year. We'll usually encounter somewhere between 2 and 3,000

965
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miles along the way. The tagging on the system here has been done going back

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to 1993. So we have a very lengthy data set and we basically use those

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numbers. We have the amount of fish we have tagged, the

968
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number of fish that are returned by anglers, and then we also factor

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in tag loss and angler tag reporting rate in order to get

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01:17:34,940 --> 01:17:38,940
an exploitation estimate on the system. So

971
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we did have a bag reduction on the system back in 2020.

972
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Went from a five daily bag to a three daily bag and

973
01:17:46,940 --> 01:17:50,940
an exploitation estimate that we get there is basically the primary way that we're evaluating

974
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what that bag reduction does to harvest on the system.

975
01:17:54,940 --> 01:17:58,940
Is the bag reduction more a result of poor reproduction or

976
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just so out of the pressure that it gets? The main

977
01:18:02,940 --> 01:18:06,940
motivation behind the bag reduction of 2020 was a

978
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further evaluation of angler tag reporting rates. We had previously

979
01:18:10,940 --> 01:18:14,940
estimated that 1 in 2 or you could say half of

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01:18:14,940 --> 01:18:18,940
anglers that caught a tagged fish would actually return their tagged fish.

981
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We conducted a reward tag study and basically

982
01:18:22,940 --> 01:18:26,940
put a smaller number of tags out that are worth $100

983
01:18:26,940 --> 01:18:30,940
if an angler returns it. It's actually the same exact thing Green Bay is doing. I think you guys

984
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covered that as well. But from that effort we basically got a corrected

985
01:18:34,940 --> 01:18:38,940
tag reporting rate. You just compare the number of fish that are

986
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returned with the $100 rewards versus the non-reward

987
01:18:42,940 --> 01:18:46,940
every single year and just using that ratio there you can basically figure out

988
01:18:46,940 --> 01:18:50,940
how many people are actually returning their tags and we found that to be only

989
01:18:50,940 --> 01:18:54,940
1 in 3 people. So that dropped our tag reporting estimate down to 33%

990
01:18:54,940 --> 01:18:58,940
to from 50%. So basically making

991
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our exploitation estimates increase resulting in the motivation

992
01:19:02,940 --> 01:19:06,940
for the bag change. We like to see harvest stay below 35% on the system and

993
01:19:06,940 --> 01:19:10,940
ideally it would be below that. Below 20 would probably be better off

994
01:19:10,940 --> 01:19:14,940
but seeing those very high exploitation values was the main reason

995
01:19:14,940 --> 01:19:18,940
for the bag reduction. When you think about all the things that go

996
01:19:18,940 --> 01:19:22,940
into making this a successful fishery how important is it that

997
01:19:22,940 --> 01:19:26,940
you have so many volunteers you have so many groups raising money

998
01:19:26,940 --> 01:19:30,940
that people care and it's not just how many can I catch but that the whole

999
01:19:30,940 --> 01:19:34,940
system is thriving. Yeah there's a lot of passionate groups on the system

1000
01:19:34,940 --> 01:19:38,940
we have a larger group that the DNR puts together it's called

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01:19:38,940 --> 01:19:42,940
the Winnebago Fisheries Advisory Committee and it has anywhere from

1002
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25 to probably closer to 30 now different fishing clubs and other organizations

1003
01:19:46,940 --> 01:19:50,940
on the system we all get together we look at the data what the population current

1004
01:19:50,940 --> 01:19:54,940
status is at and as of right now we have had a pretty lucky streak

1005
01:19:54,940 --> 01:19:58,940
of production on the system that's what the system relies on you know we

1006
01:19:58,940 --> 01:20:02,940
do have very high harvest but that being said we have very high exploitation

1007
01:20:02,940 --> 01:20:06,940
so if we have a I guess you could say low or lack of production on the

1008
01:20:06,940 --> 01:20:10,940
system for a number of years the amount of fish getting taken out isn't going down

1009
01:20:10,940 --> 01:20:14,940
so you know the combination of low production and high exploitation that's the

1010
01:20:14,940 --> 01:20:18,940
recipe for a crash and again as of now going back to 2016 we've had almost

1011
01:20:18,940 --> 01:20:22,940
nothing but average to above average year classes show up with many notable

1012
01:20:22,940 --> 01:20:26,940
near record year classes showing up in that time frame so that hasn't been too

1013
01:20:26,940 --> 01:20:30,940
much call to action on the walleye population

1014
01:20:30,940 --> 01:20:34,940
as of right now but you know we're always in communication with all those

1015
01:20:34,940 --> 01:20:38,940
different groups out there another big thing with the groups is they actually help

1016
01:20:38,940 --> 01:20:42,940
us conduct the work you know the management crew that covers one of bagels system

1017
01:20:42,940 --> 01:20:46,940
all I management is a team of typically three people so you know utilizing

1018
01:20:46,940 --> 01:20:50,940
not only volunteers we do have different DNR staff

1019
01:20:50,940 --> 01:20:54,940
from different parts of the state help us out too

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but those volunteers play a huge role

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Thank you