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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Just recieved this E-mail I've been waiting for from my DNR buddy..
Dan.
Just got off the Tittabawassee River. Our impression was that the abundance of walleyes was about normal. The water is very high such that our electrofishing efficiency was low so we had to work for the fish, but again, we attributed that to water levels,not necessarily any lack of fish. Nice size range, more bigger females than I've seen in a while. We jaw tagged 1,000 today and implemented 112 with those tracking transmitters. We hope to reach our 200 transmittered fish by the end of tomorrow.
I'm not recalling fecundity rates off the top of my head but I'm guessing that a large female would run in excess of 2000 to several thousand eggs.
There was plans to take eggs on the Tittabawassee this year but there wasn't enough hatchery people to take eggs at more than one spot at a time. So eggs will be collected from the Muskegon River to fill all needs. We'd prefer to only use Tittabawassee fish for stocking in the Lake Huron watershed but we'll make do. Basically it's a man power limitation. We've been downsized so much we some times just don't have enough people to go around.
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Here's a picture of a nice 14 pound tournament kicker walleye taken from the DNR shock boat. 
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Wow, smokin fish. | |
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