I will be there.
Also, for those who are considering travelling a long distance to make this meeting, I live 15 mins from the place and have a spare bedroom that is open for guests. If anyone is planning on making the trip and you don't feel like driving home afterwards, you are more than welcome to stay the night at my place. I also have cold beer in the fridge free for anyone who comes. PM me if you are interested. We need as many guys as we can get up here.
The current muskellunge season in Michigan does not protect all populations from harvest during the spawning season (Williams 1954,
Hanchin, in press). In fact, a 2011 poll of DNR biologists found that 72% of muskellunge waters statewide were not protected from harvest during the spawning period with current seasons. Public concern has been raised in the past (Williams 1954) and recently (DNR files) over the harvest of spawning muskellunge in the Antrim Chain, the Indian River Chain, and the Black Lake system. While these harvests may have been legal, the harvest of fish during spawning concentrations can be so efficient that overharvest will occur and cause recruitment to be low (Hansen et al. 2000).
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Just got an email from a prominent biologist/professor/muskellunge researcher that he will be attending the meeting in TC. I don't know that he'll say much at the meeting but that he's said things like the following about muskellunge fishing means we can count him as a muskie guy:
“It generates a lot of economy in those states, and we could do better and maybe we should be,” Diana said.
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