It's unfortunate, but I don't ever think Pymie will return to it's glory days. The lake had a bit of resurgence a couple years ago that ended up putting tons of extra pressure on the lake. Everyone heard the walley were back and decided to go back to Pymie. The numbers of walleyes never came close to rebounding like back in the heyday. You can see by the pictures and reports that are posted, the walleyes that for the most part are being caught are much bigger on average than the old days. It was common occurence for many fisherman to go out and catch 30 or more walleyes in a day and get a limit of 15"to 16 1/2" fish with maybe a 17/18" every now and again. Now the angling effort produces a couple fish a day if your lucky. But if you are able to get a few ,they are much nicer usually in the 21" + size range. With amount of angling effort you should be seeing or hearing of sub legal fish being caught on a regular basis, and you are not. I think a few factors have played into the poor fishing over the years. Pymie has, so to speak matured over the years. I, too am one those guys that has been fishing this lake since the early 70's. Back in the day you couldn't drop a jig or a little joe spinner(remember those) on a drift to the bottom with out getting hung up in 2 seconds flat. That cover has degraded tremendously over the years, not as many places for those youngsters to hide in my opinion. The internet is a wonderful thing, but it can do alot of things and one is put alot of pressure on a fisherie. A couple years ago when the walleye were supposedly back , the north end of the lake looked like the western basin of lake Erie on Memorial day weekend. Like I said, I have fished this lake for many many years and I had never seen the amount of boats as I did that day. Simple mathmatics will tell you that kind of pressure has to take it toll on the quality of the fishing. I believe that Alewives getting into the lake have also had a negative impact as well. They have been stocking larger fry the last couple years but with very limited success. All in all , Pymie is what it is. Its a lake that has tons of good memories for us older guys, who remember it for what it used to be like go catch a mess of fish in a day. And hope that someday it will get there again. It's sad, but the younger crowd will probably never get to experience the fishing at Pymie like we had it back in the day. For now , it a grind it out lake. If your happy going out and being on the water and maybe catching a couple 20 plus inchers and a few crappie, perch and a cat or two then this is lake for you. The question was asked what happened to Pymie. Degraded habitat, over fishing, introduction of a nonnative species and slow response and planning from fisheries managers. Thats what happened to Pymie. It's still a beautiful lake and holds many great memories and I'm still thankful for the time I get to spend on her even though the fishing can be very poor. She aint what she used to be, but she's still "mine" and will I always have a soft spot for her. Till next time