Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

Came across this article.

I know many of you fish for n eat walleye.

Doesn't appear to be wide spread YET 👍🎣

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin

Interesting, hope it doesn’t come here!

Robertohl883 Loc: Santa Margarita

I'm originally from Ohio and raised on Lake Erie. Home of the walleye. I didn't realize they had walleye in Colorado or anywhere other than the Great Lakes. Could somebody enlighten me?

CRKfish Loc: Southern New Jersey

There are walleye in lakes and rivers all over the country, and across Canada as well.

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

Yes they are CRK. About every place I fish around here has them 👍👍

woodguru Loc: El Dorado Ca

Couple of takeaways...
...It doesn't seem to transmit to humans
...older fish, leading one to stick to the eat younger fish concept
...don't throw guts back in the water where it can be transmitted to other fish

https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/first-case-of-sandy-flesh-disease-in-colorado-found-in-lake-pueblo-walleye

J in Cleveland Loc: Cleveland, Ohio

Where you from? Here’s the Buckeye test.

OH…….!

Tight lines
J

Papa Jack Loc: Indianapolis

Interesting

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

Scary also. Just saw about trout some where that infected with the whirling disease.
Hear about it before. They just keep swimming in circles. I think it was at a hatchery 👍

dec341

They are more northern than southern but I have caught 4 out of the Etowa River just north of Atlanta. Don't know if they swim farther south than that.

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

Well Robert, seems that the powers that be, in the freshwater fish world, have long had a history of supplanting local/regional species with species from elsewhere.
You in the Great Lakes area have "our" steelhead and Chinook. We have "your" walleye in the Columbia River and elsewhere in Oregon. Scuttlebutt reports are beginning to emerge that the Columbia will soon produce the US record walleye, who knows ?
And of course, there's been "German Brown" trout in the US for 150+years...not misnamed, in the least.....brought here from Germany.
It would be an interesting topic to study, as to how many fish species are truly "native". I recently read an article on plants and food crops regarding their origins. Found out that even "Johnny Appleseed" was "distributing a foreign species of fruit" ! Apples are not an American native !(guess should've known that.....Eve was not a resident of this hemisphere, right ?)
Learning something new everyday, huh ?

BTW, growing up in eastern Kansas, I caught my first walleye in Iowa, and subsequently many more in stocked reservoirs throughout Kansas over the years. Obviously wide distribution of walleye. And why not ? Fun to catch..... even more fun to eat, imo.

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

China's at it again 😂😂😂😂

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

????.....I have no idea what your response is supposed to mean. No relevance to what I wrote, whatsoever, yet you choose to quote me.

Care to explain, Chuckay ?

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

By no means ment towards you, just saying that China may have sent some virus over in our fishery 🐠 just making a joke 😂😂😂 sorry if you took it the wrong way..