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It lasts mere seconds but can feel like minutes. Getting stuck at a red light, especially with no traffic around, is frustrating at times. But they already have too much of the state and they don't need any more. Majkrzak said he worries lakes stocked with muskies are more vulnerable to aquatic invasive species like zebra mussels because muskie anglers tend to travel around.

But Pereira said some lake associations simply don't want more anglers coming to "their" lake. You make MPR News possible.

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Share Twitter Facebook Email. A muskie recovers after being stunned by researchers using an electric charge May 4, , on Fish Lake near Detroit Lakes, Minn. Jim Wolters, an area fisheries supervisor for the Minnesota DNR, inserts a small electronic tag, similar to those used to identify cats and dogs, into a muskie May 4, , on Fish Lake in Otter Tail County. The ABA record books say that the Muskies averaged 2, people per game.

However, given the low season ticket base the Muskies had to work with, that number is obviously padded. For their second season, the Muskies planned to play nine home games elsewhere in Minnesota, to boost attendance. A lucrative television contract was also in place. However, Muskies management eventually decided to move the team.

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He said his research so far has shown that walleyes are not an important food source for muskies. Later this year his staff will begin writing a new management plan, including a review of stocking efforts to deem what approaches are most efficient. Up for discussion again is whether muskies should be introduced to new lakes. Shamineau Lake has been stocked for years with muskies and walleyes and isn't connected to other lakes or to a river. It's waters are too clear for it to be a prime walleye lake, but a research team led this spring by DNR's Tyler Ahrenstorff estimated that Shamineau holds 2, spawning sized adult walleyes.

There's nothing new about fish population estimates, but Ahrenstorrf's team broke new ground at the DNR this spring by conducting estimates for four different species at the same time, on the same lake. The effort required days of capturing muskies, walleyes, northern pikes and bass. Those fish were marked on the fin and released. In the second round of netting and electro-fishing, researchers noted how many fish of each species were recaptured.

The adult fish population estimate for each species in the lake was based on the ratio of marked to unmarked fish. The preliminary results? There's approximately muskellunge, 2, walleye, 3, northern pike, and 5, largemouth bass of spawning size in Shamineau Lake. Eric Altena, DNR area fisheries manager in Little Falls, said early comparisons from Shamineau show that muskies are losing ground and walleyes have a little more abundance than previously thought. In a population estimate, the lake was holding an estimated spawning-sized adult muskies.

Because overall body conditions of those fish were on the skinny side, fisheries managers believe the ideal muskie population on Shamineau would be somewhere in the mids. To get there, managers probably will tweak the stocking program, he said.

When the diet researchers complete their work this year, the two research teams will combine information and calculate yearly food intake for each species, also noting what types of prey they have in common.