This was in our Des Moines morning paper today.
Whopper of a walleye netted, released in Wisconsin lake
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LA CROSSE, Wis. — A team of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources staffers have netted a massive walleye in a Jackson County lake.
Biologist Daniel Hatleli and fish technicians Brad Betthauser and Eric Kramer captured and released the whopper in Lake Wazee on Dec. 16 while they were out conducting a sampling survey.
They snapped a photo and recorded the fish at 17.5 pounds and more than 32-inches long. An 18-pounder caught in 1933 in Vilas County holds the state walleye record.
Betthauser told The Associated Press that he has been a fish technician for 10 years, and neither he nor anyone else on the crew had ever handled a walleye that long or heavy before.
Wazee is the deepest manmade lake in Wisconsin, at 350 feet. It has different temperature layers and very little plant life.
