Potential Bad News From Colorado

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Unlike tiger muskies which are sterile saugeyes aren't necessarily so. Pool 4 in the Mississippi has a large population of saugers and walleyes and over time a large population if saugeyes has developed. The saugeyes reproduce and further mix with the native walleyes and sauger. It is now very difficult to tell what you just caught. Since limits there are different for sauger and walleyes the DWR just lumped walleyes and saugeyes into one category which covered everything that wasn't for sure a sauger. The big interest in saugeyes is they can handle higher water temps than walleyes and you will now find them as far south as Oklahoma. And hatcheries can generate sterile stock for the most part - always a few that aren't. Having caught plenty of both I can't say I favor saugeyes over walleyes.
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