Walleye age

  • crawdaddy
    St. Paul MN
    Posts: 1604
    October 29, 2016 at 3:52 pm #1647814

    How old do walleye get in the river? A while ago I was told that a 28 inch walleye is 20 years old or more. I think maybe he had things mixed up with a northern Canadian shield lake.

    Buffalo Fishhead
    Posts: 302
    October 29, 2016 at 8:53 pm #1647841

    20 years old seems a little old for a walleye in the conditions you suggest. Depending on forage availability, probably more like 7 to 10 years old.

    Buffalo Fishhead

    chamberschamps
    Mazomanie, WI
    Posts: 1089
    October 29, 2016 at 11:13 pm #1647851

    In the Wisconsin River system walleye reach 28″ in 9-11 years. I imagine the Mississippi is on about the same scale.

    Nick Dennison
    Rochester MN
    Posts: 324
    October 30, 2016 at 12:04 pm #1647878

    i would look up nick schlessers annual pool 4 survey he is ther large lake biologist out of lake city and every year puts a spreadsheet together with all the info from there netting and electrofishing and presents it to our walleye club in rochester. i know that it has been put on here for all to see and maybe bk or someone can post a link….very imformational stuff but i believe in pool 4 if it hits 12 yrs old it is odd he always told us pool 4 fish are like rockstars they live hard short lifes lol.

    poomunk
    Galesville, Wisconsin
    Posts: 1507
    October 30, 2016 at 3:30 pm #1647896

    somewhere back a while ago I think it was BK who posted a link to a PowerPoint that compared pepin walleyes versus I think rainy lake. If I recall i think they struggled to find any samples of one from pepin that was more than 11 years old.

    Tom Sawvell
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    October 31, 2016 at 9:17 am #1648014

    Need to think about the chart shown in this link. The data is from fish gathered in nets. Look at the fish being caught by anglers. Every year we see pictures of fish in the 29-30 inch range being caught by anglers. Seriously large walleyes. Nets tell 1/2 a story.

    BigWerm
    SW Metro
    Posts: 11646
    October 31, 2016 at 9:23 am #1648017
    Tom Sawvell wrote:

    Need to think about the chart shown in this link. The data is from fish gathered in nets. Look at the fish being caught by anglers. Every year we see pictures of fish in the 29-30 inch range being caught by anglers. Seriously large walleyes. Nets tell 1/2 a story.

    Keep in mind that chart shows an average size (likely the mean of all walleye’s caught), so they surely have many fish over 29-30″, but it is skewed to a 24-25″ average due to males or underdeveloped females.

    Tom Sawvell
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    October 31, 2016 at 9:42 am #1648021

    There’s that. Yup.

    Joe Scegura
    Alexandria MN
    Posts: 2758
    October 31, 2016 at 10:26 am #1648033

    I saw a survey from LOTW a while back that showed a 28″ walleye was 20 years old.

    I talked to an individual with the DNR that stated a central MN walleye would be around 15 years old at 28″ based off of the data he has seen.

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