Randy Hiltner Quotations

One thing you find out when you net a lake this size is there's a lot of variability. One net will be loaded with fish, and another will have hardly any. You try to reduce the variability with a larger sample size.

We haven't seen anything close to that in the last four years.

We can run anywhere we want today and not have to pay for it.

We know that, but whether one can do anything about it is another thing. We will try to stock perch again next spring, judging by what we're getting here.

There's still young-of-the-year fish out here, but it's not what you would label a strong year-class, that's for sure. I was hoping for something exciting this fall with the yellow perch catch, but it's not going to materialize.

It will be interesting to see whether they come back marked or unmarked. It's good information, but you've got to do it for more than a year or two to put the pieces of the puzzle together.