04-23-2011, 03:43 PM
This is so ridiculous! Game and Fish is worried about walleye leaving Ririe and getting into the S. Fork and decimating the Yellowstone Cutts??? What a crock! 1st of all, the S. Fork is not even close to being ideal habitat for walleyes. They are a cool water fish. Not a cold water fish. If this was really a valid argument, we would only need to look to the other water in the state that contain walleyes. There has bee NO prolification downstream of any of those waters. None at all. 2ndly, why are we all suddenly so concerned with the native fish species in the Willow Creek drainage? You cannot think that the splake, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, planted rainbows and even the almighty kokanee are native. All introduced and all provide a viable fishing opportunity... and by the way, all of those species (except kokanee) are piscivores. That means they eat fish! To prematurely suggest that walleye will impact Ririe in a negative way is obsurd. To my understanding, Salmon Falls has a strong walleye population and other species are doing fine. Give the walleyes a chance in Ririe, they may actually end up benefitting the fishery[fishon]!
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