|
|
New User
Posts: 3
| |
|
| |
|
New User
Posts: 3
| weefry - 5/22/2004 1:47 AM
Is there anybody out there that will answer a question I have about walleye? |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 874
Location: Neenah, WI | It's a naturally occuring species here in WI. I have, however, introduced hundreds to hot oil. |
|
| |
|
Location: Rhinelander | There are many systems across the country that didn't have walleyes before stocking. There are also many that had walleyes as an existing species, but needed 'help' to maintain a fishable population. |
|
| |
|
|
LOL! Dale you mean walleye hater!:-) |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 2680
Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Weefry.
Yes and No......For the most part, walleyes are/were a native North American Great Lakes species, along with their close relatives Pike and Perch. The Lake trout and their relative sub species such as white fish, hering and cisco's were/are also native. There are many other native specie, but the foreign list of both introduced species and foreign invaders is as long or longer now than the native list in the Great Lakes.
In recent years with the walleyes popularity, many Western States and many others have planted them in their Larger Lakes and Reservoirs. The foreign invader list of fish species not native has grown long in recent years from ships not purging their bildge waters before entering the Great Lakes. Then many of these in turn are transported via live wells and other means to inland waters and the cycle continues.
Edited by walleye express 5/22/2004 4:05 PM
|
|
| |
|
| That is one vague question, Weefry.
Introduced where? |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 540
Location: Milw, WI | Most "lakes" here in Wisconsin, did not have them.
Most of the lakes that get speared buy the indians did not have walleyes in them
when they " owned " the lands.
Great lakes, and the river systems contained them.(lakes connected also)
As the rail road moved through our state, Man moved count less numbers of fry on rail cars in milk cans.
Each lakes crossed was stocked with the cans marked for that lake.
Walleyes and smallmouth were transported this way for years.
Remember this also, most of our closed lake systems are natural.
Bago chain is not, but walleyes were in the original river system.
Bago was farm land, butte was a marsh.
Pewaukee was only the west end with a shallow marsh outlet on the east end.
Flowages did not exist, back then.
The eyes in Erie are not the same ones as your great grandfather may have fished for.
They are orginally stocked from the mississippi river walleye strain.
Hope I just triggered a whole bunch of other ?'s............
Edited by Richfish 5/22/2004 1:52 PM
|
|
| |
|
Location: Rhinelander | I intend to introduce some introduced walleyes from lake George to a frying pan Friday. |
|
| |
