Lake Washington Walleye

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Permalink Reply by Marc Marcantonio on August 7, 2009 at 8:09am

Eric,

A friend of mine who is a fisheries biologist and tournament bass angler has personally caught a Walleye in Lake Washington (about 5 years ago as I recall). He has the photo's also. There is no doubt in my mind that there is a tiny population at the moment, but that certainly could change over time. There is no biological reason Lake Washington could not support a huge population of Walleye, but it is a very unpopular thought to fishery biologists as they are very worried about the predation problem to salmonids (which likely will occur since walleye are pelagic and their range overlaps salmonids much more than other spiny rays).

ciao,
Marc

Permalink Reply by Eric DeLay on August 7, 2009 at 9:49am

Their concerns concern me.
I worry that if the Walleye become prolific in the lake there may be some eradication efforts that would hurt the bass populations.

I strongly encourage anyone who catches one to takes some pics with background for the site and then gently harvest the fish.

Marc Marcantonio said:

Eric,

A friend of mine who is a fisheries biologist and tournament bass angler has personally caught a Walleye in Lake Washington (about 5 years ago as I recall). He has the photo's also. There is no doubt in my mind that there is a tiny population at the moment, but that certainly could change over time. There is no biological reason Lake Washington could not support a huge population of Walleye, but it is a very unpopular thought to fishery biologists as they are very worried about the predation problem to salmonids (which likely will occur since walleye are pelagic and their range overlaps salmonids much more than other spiny rays).

ciao,
Marc

Permalink Reply by Ronald Hobbs, Jr. on August 7, 2009 at 10:21pm

Eric you spelled Skeptical wrong

Permalink Reply by Eric DeLay on August 8, 2009 at 2:12am

Thanks, I fixed it.
Q. What is weirder than me spelling it wrong?
A. Ron knew how to spell it correctly.

Ronald Hobbs, Jr. said:

Eric you spelled Skeptical wrong

Permalink Reply by Mark Byrne on August 18, 2009 at 3:17pm

Oh WDFW has shocked up all kinds of strange fish in Lake Washington, I know they have shocked up Walleye, because a WDFW employee told me he did! He also shocked up two Snapping Turtles, the kind found in the deep south east US, they did not walk here! If there are two I am sure there are more, skinny dippers beware!
www.huntingandfishingnw.com
Mark

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on September 15, 2009 at 12:17am

It's true, they are there!!!!!

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20050313&a...

Permalink Reply by Eric DeLay on September 16, 2009 at 10:00am

Maderos probably put them in there to have more stuff to troll for.

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on September 16, 2009 at 10:35am

I don't see why they wont be successful in the lake. It would be kind of cool to have them here on the west side. I'm not sure I share your fears about eradication affecting the bass population though. If any fish needs to be eraticated, it would be the northern pike minnow, and ZERO effort to take them out of lake washington has been made. (or at least any that I am aware of outside the river) Plus, you would have a bunch of Walleye guys barking about it just like we would about bass.

If anything, it could benefit the quality of fish in the lake be thinning out a few of the smaller fish. This theory can be argued by two words though. Banks Lake.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Bye on February 25, 2010 at 4:09pm

Hey Eric, I found this article from the Seattle Times. I guess this 'eye was caught just last month.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2011140409_outn21...

Permalink Reply by Eric DeLay on February 28, 2010 at 9:17pm

Con Ville probably brought it back from the river and called the paper just to see his name in print.

I was fishing for a couple bass under a dock in the NW Bass tourney on Lk Wa two years ago and that fag set up on the other side of the dock and started casting to the same fish.

Kevin Bye said:

Hey Eric, I found this article from the Seattle Times. I guess this 'eye was caught just last month.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2011140409_outn21...

Permalink Reply by Shawn O'Connell on March 1, 2010 at 7:02am

Classic!

Eric DeLay said:

Con Ville probably brought it back from the river and called the paper just to see his name in print.

I was fishing for a couple bass under a dock in the NW Bass tourney on Lk Wa two years ago and that fag set up on the other side of the dock and started casting to the same fish.

Kevin Bye said:

Hey Eric, I found this article from the Seattle Times. I guess this 'eye was caught just last month.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2011140409_outn21...