Do some homework as to how many pounds of walleye each acre will support based on your lake's productivity or an educated guess average then extrapolate the numbers to 300ac. IMO your main detractor to WE productivity will be presence of other fish reproducing predators that other armature fish stockers or bucket stockers will introduce. Competition from other fish predators will be your biggest problem for growing big walleye not the absence of Ghsad.
IMO a productive lake without other predators such as bass, burbot, or pike could easily grow 50 lbs of walleye per acre. This equates to 15,000 lbs of walleye as average standing stock. Those fish if well managed in terms of numbers will surely produce numerous large walleye. For comparison if other predators are present where walleye have to share the forage base and compete with more abundant reproducing predators then the standing stock of walleye could be around 3-10 lbs per acre which still allows for a lot of walleye for harvest in 300 ac. Keep the other 'trash' predators out and you could have a great walleye fishery without Gshad. It all depends on good, wise management.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 06/08/14 02:17 PM.
