Was talking to one of the Game and Parks personel who got the chance to go along with the fisheries guys at Sherman milking eyes. He said friday night they caught around 38 females with several aroung 12 pounds. And they collected 114 males with the shocking boat. And as we all know only about 15-20 % were over 18" He had several photo's of the process and it looks like it would be a blast to go out and help do that sometime. Or just borrow that boat for a while
I went over saturday to check out the process and did see some hog's. Now I am really pumped to start fishing. It was awful tempting to drop a line in those net's
They also said that friday night the guys at Meritt pulled out over 100 females.
That just goes along with the theory of walleyes spawning more to moon phase and lighting than water temps. I would assume these lakes are at the lower end of the 40-52 degree window.
Thanks for the report rippin lips. I have been lucky enough to get to watch them milk some of those big ladies of their eggs at Sherman. It is a lot of fun watching our license money being used for productive projects.
My hope is that they will still plant some of these fish back into Sherman.
dj
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Quote: That just goes along with the theory of walleyes spawning more to moon phase and lighting than water temps. I would assume these lakes are at the lower end of the 40-52 degree window.
I got a response from Daryl Bauer, G & P guru on my comment that I hope that they put some of the fry back into Sherman:
"We do! Even though evidence indicates that we have excellent natural reproduction at Sherman and that walleye population may be maintained primarily by natural reproduction, we stock walleyes there every other year (odd years)."
Thanks again to Daryl and other G & P officials for making Sherman the walleye resource that it is.
jorg
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114 Walleye in 4.5 minutes
Re: 114 Walleye in 4.5 minutes
