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 Confirmed Tpwd email saying that this picture is a sauger-walleye,and it was found below PK
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How could fingerling walleye be in the upper brazos . These pics look just like walleye just real small , unless there is a river minnow that looks similiar.I follow the TPWD website for stocks and see no indication of this. Are they stocking them as an experiment and not reporting it .Its just bizzare.
Update i got an email from TPWD.
From: inld <inld@tpwd.state.tx.us>
To: donhull30@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 11:51 AM
Subject: RE: Fish identification
Some of our biologists looked at the photo and it appears to be a little
saugeye (a walleye-sauger hybrid). Which means it's a game fish and
can't be used for bait. The minimum "keeper" size for saugeye is 18
inches, with a daily bag limit of 3 fish.
We aren't sure how it got there. Some walleye were stocked in this area
in the 1960s and 1970s, and have been known to reproduce naturally. Our
records don't indicate we ever stocked saugeye, but the biologists are
pretty sure that's what this one is.
There is a picture link four threads down
Last edited by BrazosWilderness; 03/18/13 08:54 PM.
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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03/14/13 01:32 PM
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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03/14/13 07:09 PM
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Even the guide at times has had to release them out of his net .They could be stocking them but there dieing that could be a possibility. Ill try to put a link on here to photo.
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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i saw 1 caught out of PK
guy showed it to my son at the ramp
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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03/14/13 09:21 PM
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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03/15/13 05:41 AM
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Don't they need to live in cold water?
Fishing is fun and adictive, but always stay safe. Happy Fishing!
How do you add a photo...
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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They stock trout below Pk , Tpwd might be trying to see how good walleye do.
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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03/15/13 05:03 PM
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Hope it's not Snakehead.If it is he's releasing an illegal invasive species. Kinda look like a bowfin to me. Hard to tell when they're that small .But Walleye have a much taller top fin bowfin and snakehead have one long top fin.
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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03/15/13 05:30 PM
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That is a walleye or possibly sauger or saugeye
Not sure where anyone is seeing anything else here
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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03/15/13 05:45 PM
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kinda like those hybreds I catch in PK. Not supposed to be there.
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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03/15/13 07:43 PM
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I grew in Michigan and fished them most my life and those are not Walleye.
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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I thought the same thing maybe a sauger
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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03/16/13 01:58 AM
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sauger have no opalescent eye, & no white patch on anal fin, no way to tell with that little guy, but it's clearly a walleye/sauger
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Re: Anybody Heard of Walleye in the upper brazos ,i saw pics of some fingerlings a guide caught in his castnet and released
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03/16/13 02:46 PM
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Sauger do great in dam tail races but I doubt they would flourish below PK due to our hot summer temps and nearly 0 flow except during generating times. Oh ya, plus the state has no Saugeye program!
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