"Scrappy" said:
I presume this is his wish list? If not, where is it that the state is going to get Great Lakes strain fish to stock since Wolf Laek isn't producing them yet?

Please note: "when , and if, they become available from the hatchery system"

They're getting everything in place for when the broodstock lakes are ready to give eggs. If the brood lakes are started this year we're probably talking 7-8 years down the road unless there's a surplus over the number going to the brood lakes (not likely).

"Jim tenHaaf" said:
If we start stocking Torch (Skeg), will we lose our leverage of using "natural muskie lake" saying to try to get different regs in place vs stocked lakes? I know the density would be lower, but I would find it much more satisfying to try to get regulations in place and keep the lake a true "natural" muskie lake. Not dumping in stocked, hatchery grown fish. But…. if it does come to the stocking- I thought we were going to shoot for a 1 per acre per year type of stocking instead of big batches ever couple years….?

Up to one/acre annually. A lake with natural reproduction just needs a shot in the arm now and then. That is the beauty of natural water, it takes very few fish to make it a great fishery.

As far as regs go this has no effect for a long time. Stocking is many years away and adults from the first stocking many more years. I'll be near 60 (hopefully alive) by the time the first stocked (from a brood lake) GLS 50"er is caught.

"kid coulson" said:
Where did the GB stocked fish/eggs come from? I heard Michigan?

Yes, Michigan. There were eggs from a small number of fish from the Indian River and LSC that built the WI broodstock lake.