Saugeyes or Sterile walleyes

[rancid_crabtree]

Maybe Drew can answer this.

Last year we were close to a deal to obtain some saugeyes or sterile walleyes from Colorado if my memory serves me correctly. And it fell through due to problems with obtaining them at the last minute.

Are there any plans to get them again? And if so, where are they going to put them? Pineview was mentioned at one time.

One other question.
Has anyone seen or done a study as to how many of the 1 million walleye fry that were introduced into Willard Bay have faired. They anticipated a 1% ratio to survive. Has anyone seen any swimming around. I know they are still pretty small if they made it.
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[PBH]

[quote rancid_crabtree]
Maybe Drew can answer this.

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the state we were trying to get the saugeye from lost all of their saugeye this year (including their own stock of saugeye). Utah most likely won't be getting them this year.


Utah has been trying to get saugeye for a few years now. There have been numerous problems obtaining them. A future issue for Utah will be: how do you maintain a stocking program if you cannot consistently obtain saugeye to stock?


I don't know if they will truly ever be a viable option for us in Utah or not.



My names not Drew. Stop calling me that.
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[fishnate]

I'm not Drew either, but Red Fleet was scheduled for receiving some of these sterile walleye this fall after the treatment. Not sure where PBH got his info about lack of saugeye, certainly not disputing it, but as of a couple weeks ago the Red Fleet plan was still a "go." If I recall correctly, it seemed that Drew mentioned Utah was attempting to develop a hatchery system to produce many of these new sterile hybrids (wiper, saugeye and others) in the future. Not sure where that process is at this point.
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