If we're that bad it doesn't matter if we come or not so why the complaints.

There's a saying about burning bridges and it coming back to bite ya in the ....

It just seems logical that the folks that live right here shouldn't have to put up with the devestation of the lake they live next to, by folks that come from so far away to do it, so that implants can reap the reward. This inequity needs to be addressed.

I would further add, that if you aren't a 5th generation local like me, you aren't invited to discuss it.

Over a 100 years of Huerds, you and your's should have bought up all the land around the lake, problem solved.

We have some in several places.

Good thing water is public in MN!!!

Ya'all should give Les a break and stop short at lower red lake! Two hundred plus walleye days and no fussin'

I don't care if anyone comes. I don't like what is happening to the lake but you won't see me trying to legislate people out.

Things change, back in the day Mille lacs would have 10,000 boats opening weekend. That fishery is ruined, people have to go somewhere. LOW is going to get busier and limits will get smaller, might as well accept it.

Indeed, if we could learn a lesson from Mille Lacs, we could limit the outsiders from LOW. Best thing would be some sort of economic disaster where nobody could afford to come up here.

You are one hundred percent right, I accepted it long before you probably realized it. The writing has been on the wall for some time doesn't mean I have to like it.

What I see likely happening some day is we lose our March and April fishing.

but can i walk on your lawn.

river was full a kayaks yesterday and the vehicles said it was more ny-ers than pa-ers.

Indeed, if we could learn a lesson from Mille Lacs, we could limit the outsiders from LOW

Maybe we should limit the locals who might fish it everyday-makes about as much sense!

Locals don't hardly fish, and it's a sparsely populated county, We live so close we can fish anytime, say once a week, Non stop idiot traffic 24/7 from the south is the pressure.

Time to get rid of this clown sign the Walz recall and share the heck out of it. http://www.action4liberty.com/recall_walz?recruiter_id

So how close to LOW does one have to live to fish it, 10 miles, 50? Does the same proximity rules apply to trapping as well?

I hear whining, just go ahead and run the lake down to nothing, then leave. Be another one of those gold rush types.

Strictly day fishing, no overnight, and no wheeled houses would help.

Why do people think they should have exclusive rights to resources that are publicly owned just because they live near them. What do you think drives the economy up there in those small towns? It's the tourists spending their money at the resorts, restaurants, marinas, hardware stores etc. Not many businesses would survive if it was just the locals and their 14 fish limit, there'd be a lot less locals too, could probably have a 30 fish limit.

They are harvesting agressively on LOW and Red and those fish populations are in great shape, thriving in fact. If there is a lesson to be learned concerning Mille Lacs is that harvesting fish is good for a walleye population. The only fishery that is in the crapper is the one where they are barely harvesting any walleye. Start some aggressive harvest on Mille Lacs and watch Walleye recruitment respond.