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• A 29-inch walleye sampled during a September population assessment on Lake of the Woods turned out to be 27 years old. According to Mike Larson, area fisheries supervisor for the DNR in Baudette, Minn., the walleye is the oldest ever sampled in the assessment on Lake of the Woods. DNR fisheries crews aged the walleye by counting the rings in the otolith, an ear bone, in a process that's similar to determining the age of a tree. The oldest walleye DNR crews previously had aged on Lake of the Woods was 24 years old, Larson said. Typically, he said, a 29-inch walleye on Lake of the Woods is 18 to 20 years old.
• It's a lofty prediction, but the DNR's Larson said he wouldn't be surprised to see Minnesota's next state record walleye come from the Red River of the North. With a rich forage base that includes oily fish such as goldeyes and mooneyes, walleyes in the Red River tend to weigh more than fish of similar length in other bodies of water. Nov. 5, an angler fishing the Red River in Grand Forks caught a 29-inch walleye that weighed a whopping 12 pounds, 6 ounces.
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27-year-old walleye found in Lake of the Woods