WALLEYE / PERCH LIMITS FOR 2012

The Lake Erie Fishery Commission held their annual meeting last week and after crunching walleye and perch numbers the limits for both species will remain the same as last year. Four walleyes per day for the spring season until April 30 and six per day the remainder of the year. The estimated population for walleyes up from last year from 21.2 million to 25 million. The perch limit will remain at 30 per day even though the numbers were down for perch. I would expect similar catch results as we had last year with most of the fish coming from the 2007 and 2010 hatch. The trophy fish will be from the large hatch of 2003.