Walleye guide and best places to go ice fishing for them?

The best walleye guides and best places to go for walleye?

I will concede to Fishound on Erie. I didn't do much research if any on the year class studies done by the DNR there. I guess I just used logic from most other lakes, where you see the size dwindle because of over harvest.  When judging A Great Lake I should do more research as they don't behave like inland lakes.. 

While I am normally very impressed by AWichman's knowledge on many different bodies of water his take on Lake Erie is completely wrong. While the average size has dropped it is primarily because we fished the 2003 record year class for so long, those fish should now be expired.

Any DNR employee and fish Biologist around Lake Erie will tell you NOT to release the larger fish, make room for the more productive / up and coming year classes. "They make fine table fare and should be harvested" is usually what you get told when you ask.

This is especially true right now with the lake jam packed with fish and low shiner numbers. In fact, the guys I'm taking to are saying a summer limit increase from 6 to 8 is being considered this year and possibly even up to 10 next year.

This from last falls trawling reports:

The walleye young-of-year index was the second-highest ever recorded in Ohio at 112 walleye per hectare compared to the 20-year average of 27 per hectare,” biologist Travis Hartman, the division’s Lake Erie fish management program administrator, reported last week. “Only 2003 was higher. We now have two of the top three classes over the past 20 years within a four-year period"

Ah.  Missed that.  Apologies.

But...plenty of eyes through the ice around GB, too.  It is an amazing fishery.

This is in the Ice Fishing forum so I was assuming he meant ice fishing, spring fishing brings up MANY more options.

Saginaw Bay is another great numbers place, but can be dangerous travel too. We have had good trips and poor ones, but that's fishing.

Look up TRG Outdoors.  TRG Outdoors website

Walleye fishing, spring time, in Green Bay and area tributaries.  Ryan Grant is the captain and he is excellent at putting you on numbers of fish and giant fish.  While you don't necessarily "need" a guide, grab one and learn the techniques that put fish in the boat when the "masses" aren't getting many.  It is money well spent.  No joke, you can have a hundred fish evening or morning up there with the chance of getting multiple big fish.

Lake of the Woods. Zipple Bay Resort. Amazing fishing. No guide needed.

Saginaw Bay is a great option that is guaranteed ice pretty much every year. Lake Winnipeg is another, that trip can get pricey with everything involved.

Lake Erie has been mentioned already.  A couple things with Erie is the i unpredictable ice, and after going there the last 10 years I’ve seen the size go down. You used to almost be guaranteed at least one over 10lbs now those are becoming fewer and farther between. The fisheries may not run out of walleye but the size has been affected by everyone taking their limit of big fish. 

When it freezes Erie is the place to be, just doesn't happen often enough.

The other place would be Lake Winnipeg, that freezes every year and has great Walleye fishing.

If you've ever been to either place you'll quickly realize there are no other places.

Any professional ice guide on Lake Erie. No place like.