White Lake, Arnprior

[Scum Frog]

I camped at Cedar Cove for 20+ years. Family has been at White Lake since the 40's. Used to be great pike and walleye fishing. It's mostly a bass lake now. There is still the odd good pike and walleye, but you need to know how to fish them. It was nothing in the 70's and 80's to go for a day of fishing and catch a stringer full of 5-7 lb pike.....and now we wonder where they all went

[FireFox]

ScumFrog,

This is not the first time that I have wondered why the pike in the Ottawa Valley lakes seem to be chock full of little rockets and hardly any with size. I have heard people claim that it didnt used to be like this, and it got me interested to do some digging into pike research.

One theme that keeps coming up again is that angler harvest of larger pike changes the population layout, and causes the remaining smaller fish to mature and reproduce earlier. I think this is why the northern Manitoba/Sask fly in camps have really strict rules about "no-kill" when it comes to big pike.

Some of the many links I came across looking for info about this kind of thing :


http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish/norther ... ement.html


http://books.google.ca/books?id=uP149RJ ... &lpg=PA120

Fox