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| I've always preached about the musky in the St.Clair region being highly migratory, but I never dreamed they would swim the entire length of Lake Erie and back... great work to all the local folks who set this up!
http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/muskie-mysteries-lake-st-cla... |
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| Cool article. |
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| Wow that's nuts how far they travel. |
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| If I recall.....I heard a Green Bay Muskie swam across Lake Michigan, through the Straits of Mackinac and into the Cheyboygan River in N. Michigan. That's is insane if you look at the map on how far that fish swam. Somebody like Larry R or Will Schultz will know the specific details. Crazy stuff! |
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Location: Elk River, MN | Here in MN we've seen fish go from the Prescott area (Croix and Mississippi connection) all the way to Stillwater and back down again in a 24 hour period. It's insane how much these fish can move around. A few fish have even been tracked from the Croix down to Lake Pepin and back, traveling through the locks. |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Very interesting. I'm not sure this one anecdotal incident makes the species "migratory" per se, but there are clearly certain fish that do seem to love to wander. Some Green Bay fish have swam across Lake Michigan and gotten caught in waters off the lower peninsula of Michigan, so we do see it over here as well.
I'm also really interested in the technology they use for the tracking of these fish. There looks to be some very cool projects going on out there!
http://glatos.glos.us/projects
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| A lot of the first batch of fish were tagged in the upper Detroit River and went 30 miles down river and entered Erie. The info I got was the fish that fish that went to Buffalo returned to Michigan water by Jan. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I attended a presentation a few weeks back about movements of Bay of Quinte Walleye some of which spend the summer out at Main Duck Isl. An American group studying Deep Water Cisco were shocked to have one of their fish tracked to the shallow waters of the Bay of Quinte until it was realized it traveled ( or at least its transmitter) in a 12 pound walleye |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | I was reading about the various projects listed on that link I posted above, and one of the projects going is a study of walleyes in Green Bay. Apparently, a good percentage of walleyes that spawn in the Cedar River area end up south of Chambers Island in Green Bay! That's 15-20 miles by itself, and they are apparently thinking that they come down even farther into southern Green Bay. Pretty amazing actually when you think about it...how far these predatory fish actually travel.
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