Hamilton Walleyes, Ok to consume/ eat

Heading out with a friend Saturday morning with his new boat. We thought we’ll try Hamilton harbour/ Bay Area first for walleye. Any thoughts on eating the smaller ones being caught. I’ll check for slot sizes tonight.

Also will head out to open water from lift bridge for Salmon later. Do we need to head out closer to Port Credit to catch them or stay closer to Hamilton area.
Our first time also going for Salmon. Most of my fishing is Northern lakes.

Talk soon,
Sebastian

I wouldn't eat anything out of the harbor including the eye's besides what eye's are in there imo should be let go. ...the harbor was a dump for the steel industry for a long time..They have been working hard to clean it up over the years as well as a dredging project to remove the contaminated bottom..There are lots of drums / sheepheads in there that i know for sure.lolI.
Good luck whatever you decide to do and will watch for your report.
Cheers Dave.🍻

Best advice for an informed decision is head down to the beer store and see if you can pick up a copy of the eating fish guide or try this
http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/stdprodconsume/gr...9301.pdfhttp://

You couldn’t pay me enough to eat anything out of Hamilton harbour, lol.
You’ll most likely see first hand when you get down there the huge fish kill, and all the toxic algae bloom. Even seen multiple dead birds down there when I went, I go as far as washing my hands at the washroom before I jump in my car and touch everything. That algae stuff isn’t good, has killed a few dogs in the past already.
They are in there, but no real numbers yet.
Good luck out there, and don’t forget the sunscreen lol

Personally I don't think there are any eye's spawn in there, just stocked fish from previous years...

Too bad that they would not stock Scugog lake as a put and take lake were you could eat them instead of Hamilton harbour!

Went out yesterday for half a day. We decided to catch and release sport fishing. Landed about 15 of them and think the restocking program is working.
If I were to have landed a smaller ones around the 1.5 - 2 pounds I would have taken one home. They all seemed very healthy and clean looking fish though.

👍beauty Man

WOW Good Job

Nice catch ! Beauty for the harbour

Beauty eye!

That a big'n there. That too big for me to keep in any water. I like them no more then 20", but those big ones are fun to catch.

Didn’t have my scale with me but judging it had to be 10 pounds plus. Here’s another pic with my buddy’s fish.

Nice catch!

How did you catch them? Casting or trolling?

We ended up doing both and drifting. Most were caught trolling.