06-16-2012, 05:17 AM
psanders 71
I truly appreciated your reply to my comment! Obviously you have done your homework and really thought things out. I wish there were more people who took the time to study the facts you and I have learned. You strike me as an intelligent person who knows what he is talking about. However, I might clarify my comments further. You are right when you say walleye (and I might add yellow perch) are cool water fish.
However, I still stand by my term of "wolf" for walleye, because of their voracious apatite for other fish. You can identify your really predatory fish species who predominantly prey on other fish by the larger teeth they possess. Those teeth are there to grab and hold they fish prey until they can position it to swallow it.Pike, walleye, yellow perch, musky, largemouth and smallmouth bass and lake and brook trout are classic examples. The opposite is true when you look at true trout (this varies of course) as opposed to the char (brook trout, lake trout and others). The brown trout and Lahontan and Bear Lake cutthroats are more like coyotes. In Idaho, Salmon Falls Reservoir is a classic example of the point you make where walleye and trout can live together successfully. However certain dynamics have to be put in place for it to successfully work. The trout stocked there are put in at eight inches. If they were fingerlings, they would be walleye food and expensive food at that since continuing diminishing sportsman dollars are paying to raise these trout. Of course the walleye have suckers, yellow perch, crappie and I believe bass to feed on at Salmon Falls which is a must for the walleye to survive and do well there. Oakley Reservoir is another reservoir where walleye are doing great as they have a good forage base. You are right when you talk about year classes of fish being weal or strong etc. Now the point I make. Someone has illegally stocked walleye in Ririe Reservoir several miles due east of Idaho Falls. This is an extremely and selfish and uneducated act. If the walleye escape into the South Fork of the Snake River they will greatly diminish if not destroy a world class cutthroat fishery that brings in much needed tourism and sportsman dollars. Those out of state fishing dollars support you and mine and other fisherman's opportunities to enjoy expanded fishing opportunities. In addition, we don't need more cutthroat trout disappearing from their native habitat or the Federal Government will put them on the Endangered Species protection list which means restricted fishing rules and land owners use restrictions. In addition walleye will go downstream and migrate up the Salmon River into another sensitive fisheries of cutthroat and white sturgeon habitat and wreak havic. This doesn't mean that walleye are bad or evil, just not in the right or intelligent environment. I still love to catch and eat walleye but we all have to look at the bigger picture and consider other people's opportunities too. In closing you haven't offended me. It takes much more to do that. I appreciate your comments. I hope you will participate and comment more. We need them. Thanks.
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I truly appreciated your reply to my comment! Obviously you have done your homework and really thought things out. I wish there were more people who took the time to study the facts you and I have learned. You strike me as an intelligent person who knows what he is talking about. However, I might clarify my comments further. You are right when you say walleye (and I might add yellow perch) are cool water fish.
However, I still stand by my term of "wolf" for walleye, because of their voracious apatite for other fish. You can identify your really predatory fish species who predominantly prey on other fish by the larger teeth they possess. Those teeth are there to grab and hold they fish prey until they can position it to swallow it.Pike, walleye, yellow perch, musky, largemouth and smallmouth bass and lake and brook trout are classic examples. The opposite is true when you look at true trout (this varies of course) as opposed to the char (brook trout, lake trout and others). The brown trout and Lahontan and Bear Lake cutthroats are more like coyotes. In Idaho, Salmon Falls Reservoir is a classic example of the point you make where walleye and trout can live together successfully. However certain dynamics have to be put in place for it to successfully work. The trout stocked there are put in at eight inches. If they were fingerlings, they would be walleye food and expensive food at that since continuing diminishing sportsman dollars are paying to raise these trout. Of course the walleye have suckers, yellow perch, crappie and I believe bass to feed on at Salmon Falls which is a must for the walleye to survive and do well there. Oakley Reservoir is another reservoir where walleye are doing great as they have a good forage base. You are right when you talk about year classes of fish being weal or strong etc. Now the point I make. Someone has illegally stocked walleye in Ririe Reservoir several miles due east of Idaho Falls. This is an extremely and selfish and uneducated act. If the walleye escape into the South Fork of the Snake River they will greatly diminish if not destroy a world class cutthroat fishery that brings in much needed tourism and sportsman dollars. Those out of state fishing dollars support you and mine and other fisherman's opportunities to enjoy expanded fishing opportunities. In addition, we don't need more cutthroat trout disappearing from their native habitat or the Federal Government will put them on the Endangered Species protection list which means restricted fishing rules and land owners use restrictions. In addition walleye will go downstream and migrate up the Salmon River into another sensitive fisheries of cutthroat and white sturgeon habitat and wreak havic. This doesn't mean that walleye are bad or evil, just not in the right or intelligent environment. I still love to catch and eat walleye but we all have to look at the bigger picture and consider other people's opportunities too. In closing you haven't offended me. It takes much more to do that. I appreciate your comments. I hope you will participate and comment more. We need them. Thanks.
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