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] Hey BrianID. I enjoyed your thoughtful comments on walleye and agreed with several of your thoughts tho not all. But thanks for the opportunity you and I and others have to converse and share our thoughts!
To all reading thoughts about walleye in Ririe let me share a few biology facts about walleye and trout and why mixing them is dangerous for the trout fishery. A few facts:
1. Trout are rarely if ever a threat to walleye because population wise they might spawn 250 to 800 eggs in a spawn, walleye might spawn 1000 to several thousand eggs in a spawning. By sheer numbers the walleye will win.
2. Trout are soft finned creatures with little self-defence mechanisms except turn and run. They slide down predator fishes gullets with ease. Walleye, like perch, bass, crappie and bluegill have prickly dorsal fins and pectoral fins designed to stab or resist from predator fish swallowing them so easily.
3. Walleye can tolerate a wider temperature range of water while trout species die at higher temperature ranges that walleye which survive thru. This puts trout behind in feeding opportunities, spawning territories etc.
4. Walleye eyes have a specially designed lense in the eye that gathers in light in much smaller quantities and more efficiently than other fish. This gives them the advantage of stealthily sneaking up on other fish during the night and gulping their prey.
5. Walleye of most ages have larger teeth than most other species of fish giving them an added advantage in attaching and seizing their prey to consume.
6. Walleye,pike and muskellunge are like courgars, wolves and bears in the mammal world and the top predators in their environment. Bass, crappies and catfish are like eagles, hawks and mink. Not highest on the food chain but still avid predators in the fish world. These fish all evolved in a different environment totally foreign to the trout species.
7. Put an equal number of walleye and trout of fry or fingerling size in a lake that both can tolerate and watch trout totally disappear within a year or two.
8. Trout can only survive where they co-exist with walleye when trout are artificially stocked in sizes too big for most walleye to eat. Colorado uses this model for stocking the two in the same waters. If Idaho were to practice this fish stocking model your license fees will rise to cover the extra cost to raise trout to a larger size.
9. Walleye and yellow perch biologically evolved together in the upper midwest U.S. Walleye were designed to keep perch down to reasonable numbers as they multiply like rabbits (See Roberts Gravel pond if you don't believe me). Perch stop feeding after dark where they slowing settle down to the lake bottom and rest on their pectoral fins with decreased ability to see in the dark. Walleye with their superior night vision attack and consume like wolves.
10. Those of you who like perch fishing at Ririe will see a noticeable decline in the numbers of perch available to catch. Also ID. Fish and Game may have reservations about stocking kokanee fry or fingerlings into Ririe where walleye will consume them in large numbers. Good bye to kokanee fishing in Ririe.
I could tell more with cutthroat and walleye in the Soth Fork of snale and wild spawned trout being consumed and possible ESA action by Congress etc which the Idaho Fish and Game is trying to fend off for your fishing sakes etc.
I love walleye too, they are fantastically wonderful eating fish and fun to catch, just not in wild trout fishing waters.
I rest my case.
Best feelings to all, I wish life was more perfect but reality sometimes is hard to accept. Walleye are wolves and trout are like rabbits. That's why Idaho Fish Regs say NO LIMIT ON WALLEYE THROUGHOUT THE STATE except selected waters like Oneida res, Oakly res, and Little Salmon Falls res. (limit of six).
DeeCee
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yes F&GG hve caught them in their gill nets and that is how the news got around. Also several others have caaught wallies and taken them in
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es but I don't think walleye belong in either lake.
with a squawfish that would be really hard to do unless your a very inexperianced fisherman in my oppinion i dont know how the rest of you guys feel about that.