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Location: Menasha, WI | This is the funniest descroption of the Wolf River run I've ever heard...
This week Kendall Kamke, a senior fisheries biologist, drove an aluminum boat outfitted with electroshock booms through a Wolf River swamp near Shiocton. This is where the walleyes were born, and this is where they make their annual road trip each year to mate. Walleyes are spawning right now, so it's the best time to find them bunched together, sort of like Saturday night at a pickup bar.
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In this batch of 104 walleyes, only four were female. The fish ranged from 13 inches to 21 inches and from just under a pound to five pounds.
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The overwhelming number of males compared to females in the survey doesn't mean males actually outnumber females in Wisconsin waters, it's just a difference in behavior, Kamke explained. During spawning, the males tend to congregate "just like a college bar," he said.
"As soon as the bar doors open all of the males rush in, and then the females come in and pick one up and leave and then they go off together," said Kamke.
Full story available:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=587086
Edited to add video link: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=587049
Edited by Viking 4/5/2007 10:03 AM
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