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Dock
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04/25/2019 01:52PM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
About 4 years me and my dad were trolling with a 5 inch jointed Rapala (fire tiger) in the middle of the lake after a long day of fishing, rather sluggishly. Out of nowhere his heavy spinning real bent as if we were hooked on a train and we began to move backwards. After a long fight we got a MASSIVE laker up to the canoe. it would not fit in our net, the same net that we previously got a 42 inch pike in. The tail was the size of a football (a duke not a pewee football). our only option was to paddle to shore but before we could even wrap our minds around what was going on it death-rolled and popped the hook on the edge of the net. My question is, how big do Lakers get in these big boundary water lakes?!?!?
(yes i still do lose sleep over this fish)
 
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lundojam
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04/25/2019 05:18PM  
That sounds like a top-end fish. You'll get over it eventually. Just kidding.
 
flynn
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04/25/2019 06:14PM  
Here is the DNR data for lengths of Lake Trout in Knife Lake. They don't weigh each fish, only the total catch, so it's hard to know how heavy the big fish were. In the lengths column, it is displayed in inches:numberCaught.



Here is a sample of the data on the largest lakers caught. There was a 40 incher caught on Mountain in 2011 (with the next biggest being 20 inches), but the biggest consistently come from LLC and Trout.



As you can see, they can get pretty big. If you wanna catch a tank, LLC and Trout are your best bet.
 
Wallski
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04/26/2019 01:15AM  
Where ya from Zwater?
 
04/26/2019 04:30PM  
flynn: "Here is the DNR data for lengths of Lake Trout in Knife Lake. They don't weigh each fish, only the total catch, so it's hard to know how heavy the big fish were. In the lengths column, it is displayed in inches:numberCaught.





Here is a sample of the data on the largest lakers caught. There was a 40 incher caught on Mountain in 2011 (with the next biggest being 20 inches), but the biggest consistently come from LLC and Trout.





As you can see, they can get pretty big. If you wanna catch a tank, LLC and Trout are your best bet."


Flynn, Where do you get the DNR info in that spreadsheet/database look with different survey years in one place? Poked around on the site a lot throughout the years and never stumbled on that one.
 
flynn
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04/26/2019 05:17PM  
SurlyDude: "
flynn: "Here is the DNR data for lengths of Lake Trout in Knife Lake. They don't weigh each fish, only the total catch, so it's hard to know how heavy the big fish were. In the lengths column, it is displayed in inches:numberCaught.







Here is a sample of the data on the largest lakers caught. There was a 40 incher caught on Mountain in 2011 (with the next biggest being 20 inches), but the biggest consistently come from LLC and Trout.







As you can see, they can get pretty big. If you wanna catch a tank, LLC and Trout are your best bet."



Flynn, Where do you get the DNR info in that spreadsheet/database look with different survey years in one place? Poked around on the site a lot throughout the years and never stumbled on that one. "


I wrote a few scripts in PowerShell to pull all of the data from their API and parse it out so I could do analytics on it with a tool/platform called Splunk.
 
Wallski
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04/26/2019 07:09PM  
I wouldn’t believe any lake survey the DNR does. They stopped stocking brookies in a lake back in 1998. I still catch brookies to this day in the year 2019.
 
Marlin
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04/26/2019 08:12PM  
Wallski: "I wouldn’t believe any lake survey the DNR does. They stopped stocking brookies in a lake back in 1998. I still catch brookies to this day in the year 2019. "

I know what you’re saying. I regularly catch striped marlin outta Sag. The DNR lake surveys don’t mention striped marlin at all. Sorry, no pictures. I’ll tell ya more about my lunch with a Sasquatch this afternoon when I have time.
 
carmike
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04/26/2019 08:13PM  
If you ever see some of the photos of Dorothy Moulter (or other old-timers), there were some MONSTERS in Knife. I can't imagine fishermen have caught them all.
 
04/26/2019 08:16PM  
flynn: "
SurlyDude: "
flynn: "Here is the DNR data for lengths of Lake Trout in Knife Lake. They don't weigh each fish, only the total catch, so it's hard to know how heavy the big fish were. In the lengths column, it is displayed in inches:numberCaught.







Here is a sample of the data on the largest lakers caught. There was a 40 incher caught on Mountain in 2011 (with the next biggest being 20 inches), but the biggest consistently come from LLC and Trout.







As you can see, they can get pretty big. If you wanna catch a tank, LLC and Trout are your best bet."




Flynn, Where do you get the DNR info in that spreadsheet/database look with different survey years in one place? Poked around on the site a lot throughout the years and never stumbled on that one. "



I wrote a few scripts in PowerShell to pull all of the data from their API and parse it out so I could do analytics on it with a tool/platform called Splunk."



Very cool. I mean obviously terrible data according to the wise "Wallski" haha. Sounds pretty techy, but I'm gonna google those things, cause I love data as well.
 
Wallski
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04/26/2019 08:18PM  
Lol I enjoyed your post. I share pictures with friends and family.
 
Wallski
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04/26/2019 08:37PM  
Ottertrack has better fishing my cousin pulled a 45 inch slim LT outta der 5 years ago. It weighed in at 24 pounds frozen. She tasted great outta da smokehouse.
 
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