Walleye Pond Sucess

[Trophy Specialist]

Yesterday I helped out with the Arenac County Walleye Club's walleye pond fish extraction effort. Back in April, the DNR stocked the pond with about 800,000 walleye fry that had just hatched. The fry were nurtured by the club members and grown to fingerling size. We drained the pond down and then collected the fingerlings yesterday evening and loaded them into the DNR's trucks where they were taken to be stocked. Since Saginaw Bay has a huge abundance of walleyes, no fish are being planted there. Instead those fingerlings were transported to inland lakes. From the 800,000 fry, 615,871 survived to fingerling size, which is a new record for the Arenac County Walleye Club. Of those, 147,000 will be stocked into Mansitee Lake (Crawford Co.) and the balance will be put into Mullett Lake. This is strictly a volunteer effort by the Arenac County Walleye Club and a huge thank you is in order (especially to those that fish in Manistee Lake and the Inland Waterway Chain) to those that volunteered their time and/or donated money towards this project. It was a lot of fun helping out and I can't wait to participate again next year.

Capt. Mike Veine

[snowfish]

Nice job Mike, sounds like a great thing. Only question I have is, who stands there and counts all those little things I think I would have rounded to 616,000.

[EdB]

Nice job Capt. Mike, great to see the partnership between clubs and the DNR on the walleye stocking program. Some good things like this happening in Mason county too.

[Rascal Trophy Fishing]

Thanks for that update and stats. Mike, Ed B also talks the truth. We in Ludington also have a bunch of walleye stocking ponds. As to stats, I'll have to check with the guy, also a friend. I believe we mostly stock Hamlin Lk. to the north, perhaps some others too. Worthy cause and productive.

[Priority1]

A very worthwhile thing.