Thursday, July 5, 2012

Hamilton Harbour Gold in the Future?, July 5, 2012

Hamilton Harbour was stocked with 50,000 Walleye about 1/2 a gram or 2 inches and another 50,000 is coming tomorrow (July 6th). The test bucket of walleye showed a few morts, but not enough to concern and stop the release of the rest from the tanks. There were a few that didn't make it, but it was only a small few we could see that didn't make the transition.

From HamiltonHarbourWalleyeStocking_July5_2012
The article made the Hamilton Newspaper "Spec" on July and here is the link to the article for your read... http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/766639--walleye-in-harbour-seen-as-positive-sign

I'm sure there is alot of negative thoughts on this, like...
Will they survive?
Will it make a fishery that would in the future be sought after?
You wouldn't eat them out of the bay anyway!

Regardless, I think it is a great thing to see walleye going into the harbour.
This is really a test for the MNR to see if we might have walleye that will establish HH as a home. plantings in the past haven't been successful, but the bay is going through a dramatic change. For an example, the Perch fishery has exploded in recent years.

The Dissolved Oxygen level was almost 10 parts per million, which is very good, and the water temperature was 24'F near Maccassa Bay where they were released.

Many challenges are still left to clean the bay, but wouldn't it be nice to see a little Hamilton Harbour Gold from these guys inthe future?

My son Aidan is in some of the shots as well as Colin from the MNR who was the lead biologist in this.

Here's the pics...

https://picasaweb.google.com/ShaneWThombs/HamiltonHarbourWal leyeStocking_July5_2012?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Shane Thombs
FINtastic Sportfishing

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