Giant Warsaw Grouper Caught In Florida Weighed 347 Pounds
A giant Warsaw grouper caught in a coastal Florida fishing tournament weighed in at a whopping 347 pounds. With the monstrous total, the team catching it easily won the event, which took place in mid May.
Tagging Study Charts Lake Oahe Walleye
South Dakota State University researchers have tagged more than 26,000 fish in the last three years during a study of Lake Oahe walleye. Plans are for one more year of tagging and an additional year beyond that of data collection to assess the lake’s walleye stocks.
Tagging Walleyes To Improve Management Around The Great Lakes
Ohio Division of Wildlife biologists are busy at work tagging walleyes that migrate around the Great Lakes, according to a report from the Toledo Blade. Their tools of choice include acoustic transmitter tags implanted into the fish to monitor their movements through the lakes and surrounding rivers.
Walleye Fishing In Lake Erie Looking Good This Spring
Walleye fishing in Lake Erie is looking good this spring, according to fisheries biologists. That’s in part because there aren’t toxic algae conditions to deal with, but also because there are some impressive walleyes left from stocking efforts in years past.
Barrier On Iowa’s Big Creek Lake Keeps Muskie, Walleye From Escaping
A physical fish barrier was put up in Big Creek Lake (2012) to help keep adult walleye and muskellunge stocked in the lake from escaping through a collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and local fishing organizations.
For 2016, Catch-And-Release Only For Lake Mille Lacs Walleye
Officials with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources have put in place a strict catch-and-release fishing season this year for walleye in Lake Mille Lacs. The move is meant to help walleye populations recover after they have struggled there for some time.
Improvements At Wisconsin’s Lac Du Flambeau Hatchery Help Walleye
After 30 years of use, the original fish pond liners at the Lac du Flambeau Tribe’s fish hatchery in Wisconsin had fallen into disrepair. But thanks to a partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, the liners have been repaired, according to a blog post from the USDA.
Tips For Catching Lake Erie Trophy Walleye
Lake Erie is one of the best walleye fisheries, but if you’re new to the system you could get overwhelmed trying to decide when and where your best chances are to catch numbers of big fish.
“Merp” The Walleye A Strange Hybrid Fish
Have you ever thought you were going to catch a specific kind of fish, only to find out it was not what you originally thought? Meet Merp.
Watchful Researchers Track Lake Erie Walleye With Acoustics
Acoustic tracking technology has been used for some time to study the migration and movement patterns of fish. In Lake Erie, this is no different, as crews from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) have been relying on acoustic tags for years to study sportfish in the most shallow of the Great Lakes.
