24″ Sauger on Pool 4 Yesterday

  • resq91
    Posts: 4
    April 10, 2009 at 4:22 pm #1240965

    I sure wish I would have gotten her a few days earlier. Wonder what it would have weighed full of eggs?

    redneck
    Rosemount
    Posts: 2627
    April 10, 2009 at 4:28 pm #767436

    I think that is the first post spawner I have seen this year. She definitely would have been a tank and a half full of eggs! Still one heck of a fish now!

    wade_kuehl
    Northwest Iowa
    Posts: 6167
    April 10, 2009 at 4:41 pm #767440

    Quote:

    I sure wish I would have gotten her a few days earlier. Wonder what it would have weighed full of eggs?

    Nice sauger! I didn’t think they had started dropping yet. I wonder if she didn’t carry eggs for some reason? We caught some monster male walleyes last week, but I doubt nature built a male sauger that big??? Just thinking outloud…

    Anyway, Welcome to IDO and thanks for the picture!

    Ben Garver
    Hickman, Nebraska
    Posts: 3149
    April 10, 2009 at 5:44 pm #767459

    Welcome to IDO!! Great first post. That is a trophy sauger full of eggs or not. Congrats.

    Richard V.
    Somewhere over the rainbow
    Posts: 2596
    April 10, 2009 at 5:56 pm #767461

    NICE

    stuart
    Mn.
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    April 10, 2009 at 6:02 pm #767463

    Thats a great sauger and a heck of a first post!

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4751
    April 10, 2009 at 8:03 pm #767489

    It is not common but early run female Sauger/Walleye will reabsorb their eggs when the temps stay too cold for a long period such as we are going through…42-43 degrees is a general minimum spawn temp. P-4 is just gotten there.

    troy_blackstad
    Hastings MN
    Posts: 263
    April 11, 2009 at 7:43 pm #767687

    Nice fish. Thats proof you did better then I did.

    ezwalt
    MN
    Posts: 69
    April 19, 2009 at 3:43 am #769616

    Nice fish ResQ91 and welcome to IDO

    Tom Sawvell
    Inactive
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    April 19, 2009 at 12:33 pm #769641

    Quote:

    It is not common but early run female Sauger/Walleye will reabsorb their eggs when the temps stay too cold for a long period such as we are going through…42-43 degrees is a general minimum spawn temp. P-4 is just gotten there.

    Its too early for re-absortion to have taken place already. That process is slow. I think is more likely that the fish spawned elsewhere along the river where water temps got warm enough to promote spawning and had moved upstream to feed. Not all of the walleye/sauger from Lake Pepin make that annual trek to spawn….probably not near as many as thought….its just that their numbers get concentrated in the river setting.

    Spawned out walleyes and sauger have been taken for two weeks in the Lake City area and Pepin has offered water at or above the preferred spawning temps for some time. The lake flows slower than the river after it widens allowing the water to warm quickly.

    Darned nice sauger though in anyones’ book. Congrats!

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