07-25-2009, 12:44 PM
I know what you mean. This is just a Rumor that I heard from a guy who heard it from a guy. Anyways the story goes that several years ago the Fish and Game ordered some SMB from a fish hatchery in Utah and that the Walleye may have been introduced with that truck load of fish. Apparently the hatchery also raises walleye and they got mixed together. Now this is just a rumor but to me it makes more sense than somebody driving hours and hours to a walleye lake catching sufficient numbers, some how keeping them alive in a bucket, dumping them in Ririe and then the fish being able to survive and prosper in those small of numbers. I would think you would need a bunch of fish introduced at once in order for them to take hold in a big lake like Ririe. Either way the damage is done, I just hope they eat up all the suckers and leave the Kokanee alone. The Kokanee fishing is the best I've ever seen it right now, I hope it lasts. Normally I wouldn't spread rumors but I thought this could add to our discusion and maybe some of you have heard the same story.
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