Tagged Walleye Information

[JWheeler]

I finally got around to filling out the form about the 2 tagged walleye I caught on the walleye opener on the tittabawasee river. Here's the correspondence from the DNR:

#1 - Michigan fisheries personnel tagged your fish on 4/08/05 at Dow Dam on the Tittabawassee River. It was a 20.6" male when tagged. You caught it 1,478 days after its release.

2# - Michigan fisheries personnel tagged your fish on 3/30/2009 at Dow Dam on the Tittabawassee River. It was a 21.4" male when tagged. you caught it 26 days after its release.

Now I didn't have exact measurements on this, only a 15" walleye measurer and guessed both fish to be between 19-21", so I was close. I want to note again, that this years walleye opener on the river was some of the best fishing our group had on opening day. For me personally it was over early and should have just went home. I trolled a firetiger hot n tot 20-30' and picked up my limit in a little over 1/2 hour.

[Adam Bomb]

Its always neat to find out where the fish were tagged, their info and how theyve progressed. Thanks for sharing.

[JWheeler]

Interesting indeed. I thought both would have been recently tagged, I was surprised to find the one was tagged 4 years prior. That is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. Those are the only tagged fish I've ever caught.

[Priority1]

TY for sharing the info.

[GLF]

I am a little confused on this.

The one male was 20.6" when it was tagged 4 years ago. You caught it and it was around 21" 4 years later? Do the male walleyes stop growing?

[JWheeler]

Mike there were 2 fish, one @ 21.6" & the other @ 20.4". I guestimated the length and was off just a tad. The one that was tagged 4 years ago didn't grow much if any.