Eye-guy

The walleye population in the Susquehanna has been a topic of concern for a few of us in the Bloomsburg area. Back 10-20 years ago we would catch a limit about every time out. In some of community holes you could catch 100+ walleye on a good day and hardly any over the 15” mark. Then run down to shallower rocky holes to pick up some bigger ones. Around 10-12 years back things started to go south where it was still easy to get a limit because all the fish we got were bigger fish but there was no younger year class of fish. The past 5-6 years I have not got a limit on a trip. Sooo the few things I noticed was major flooding during spawn periods over a few years in a row. Rocky gravel bottom holes that filled in with mud I think is a minor problem. All that said I think we had a run of bad spawning years and the spawning areas are filling in with silt. The good news is this year I have got a few days of limits and I was seeing a lot of small 13-14” fish so they’re is a stock of the younger year class coming up.