Lets talk fishing

[mjmj]

I was reading up about saugeye. They can breed with any parent species, so the gene pool would get really muddled I would imagine. We have hybrid striped bass here, which is a striper/white bass cross. Really tasty and fun to catch.

Yeah, I think they try to avoid stocking saugeye where there's already good walleye populations. Though they can spawn and do go through the process every year, for whatever reason they don't seem very successful at it. There have always been a small percentage of natural occurring saugeye where both species overlap, but both species have always stayed fairly "pure". I'm not sure why that is, maybe low fertility or something. We have hybrid stripers here too, wipers they call them here. They're a ton of fun to catch, especially in heavy current. We used to catch them in the white water of roll over dams, they'd damn near spool us before we got them stopped.

 

[Crazy Source]

I've dam fished for stripers and wipers. Great fun! I wonder why they can't make saugeye infertile like wipers? Maybe interbreeding just isn't an issue?

 

[treelo]

though that said Fisting, and i wasnt surprised it had 50 pages at that point, then i re-read it, i am now surprised it has 50 pages

 

[nhbbear]

Probably don't have saugeye up there. They're a cross between walleye and sauger, they're a "put and take" fish raised and stocked by the DNR. All of our lakes and rivers used to be stocked with walleye, but 30 or so years ago they switched over to saugeye, I think because they survive hatchery life and stocking much better. In appearance, they're nearly identical to walleye. Since you have good populations of walleye, I doubt they stock any saugeye. Not sure about sauger. The only place we have them around here is down on the Ohio River, and a little ways up the Muskingum River. Smaller than walleye and saugeye, but they're a cool looking fish, with really pronounced markings.

I prefer walleye because they get soooo much bigger, it they feel cool like a wet lizard

 

[nhbbear]

though that said Fisting, and i wasnt surprised it had 50 pages at that point, then i re-read it, i am now surprised it has 50 pages

The goal is to catch a bass so big you can stick your fist in its mouth, so in a way, it is about fisting

 

[nhbbear]

I've dam fished for stripers and wipers. Great fun! I wonder why they can't make saugeye infertile like wipers? Maybe interbreeding just isn't an issue?

We have something ass stripers in the Ohio river. I have never caught a very big one, but the area I fish, I will eventually hook into one while fishing for smallies

 

[mjmj]

I've dam fished for stripers and wipers. Great fun! I wonder why they can't make saugeye infertile like wipers? Maybe interbreeding just isn't an issue?

I think it has to do with the similarities between the two species being crossed. But it's a bit over my head. I'm sure they could create a genetically modified version, but I doubt they want to open that box of worms.