St. Paul, Minnesota (AP)
The safe-harvest quotas for Lake Mille Lacs have been raised for the 2009 fishing season after a slow bite last season.
The overall walleye harvest has been set at 541,000 pounds. That’s 111,000 pounds more than the 430,000 pounds allowed last season, when sport anglers took only 76,000 pounds. Officials attribute the slow bite to an unusual abundance of bait fish in the lake.
The safe-harvest quotas for Lake Mille Lacs have been raised for the 2009 fishing season after a slow bite last season.
The overall walleye harvest has been set at 541,000 pounds. That’s 111,000 pounds more than the 430,000 pounds allowed last season, when sport anglers took only 76,000 pounds. Officials attribute the slow bite to an unusual abundance of bait fish in the lake.