NEW PA STATE RECORD
 

OK GUYS IN TODAYS PAPER A GUY FROM TOWN HERE SET THE NEW PA RECORD FOR SAUGEYE AND AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT HE GOT IT BEHIDE MY HOUSE???BUT THEN I CAN'T CATCH FISH SITTING AT HOME...AND THE RIVER IS THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER ....HE GOT HIS FISH AND THE NEW RECORD FISH ON TUB JIGS THE SAME TYPE YOU WOULD USE TO SMALLIE FISH WITH!!GO FIGURE...
OK HERES THE CATCH..D.N.R SAID THERE IS NO SAUGEYE IN THE SUSKY RIVER(WRONG) AND THEY AMIT TO THAT(NOW)..THEY SAID IT HAD TO GET THERE FROM LAKE ERIE OR THE ALLEGHENY RIVER EITHER WAY ITS ONE ##### OF A LONG SWIM...ABOUT 200 MILES...THE OLD RECORD WAS 3.8 POUNDS AND THE NEW ONE IS 4.11 POUND? DOESN'T THAT SEEM SMALL FOR THAT FISH OR WHAT..TO BE HONEST I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO TELL YOU THE DIFF...IN THESE FISH.WALLEYE/SAUGEYE BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW..ALSO THEY SAID THE FISH WAS SPAWNING..IF THIS HELPS OUT THE GUY JOE WITH THE POST SAUGEYE..ASKING IF THEY SPAWN..OK JUST FIGURE I PASS THIS ON...JEERY

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Long swim???? don't you mean walk??? None of these waters connect. Just like our PA fish commision to know exactly what swims and what doesn't swim in the lakes and rivers. Last spring I boated a 30 inch northern on the first day of trout. The fish commision biologist was doing a creel survey at the launch. When I told him what we caught, I was informed that there are no northerns in the lake that it must have been a musky or a grass pickeral. When I described the fish to him I was told that it must have just looked like a pike but wasn't because there aren't any in the lake.....

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Jerry,

Saugeye are smaller than Walleye but larger than the Sauger and is a result of inbreeding Walley and Sauger artificially in hatcheries or in natural environments.

Here is the link to Pa. fishes and their respective descriptions:

[url]http://www.fish.state.pa.us/[/url]

You'll notice that it is more difficult to tell a Sauger from a Saugeye then either from the Walleye. Sometimes, VERY difficult!

Another interesting thing, there is no State record catagory for "Saugeye" on this web site for the Fish and Boat Commission? Odd!!



SORRY! I just tested the link and it went to the "Home" page. When you get there, on the left margin click on "fishing" then in the upper middle of page 2 are the menues to go to!!

RE: NEW PA STATE RECORD
 

OK AFTER LOOKING AT THE MAP YOUR RIGHT THEY MUST HAVE WALKED.

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Yes that saugeye does seem small for a state record.
Here in Kansas the state record is 9.81 lbs and 28.5 inches.
It was caught in November of 1997. If that fish would have
been caught in April full of eggs imagine what it would have
weighed.

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OK RANGER I WAS WRONG ITS A SAUGER NOT A SAUGEYE FIGURE IT WAS THE SOME FISH?? THATS WHY I SAID I WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO TELL THE DIFF..BUT EITHER WAY THERE STILL NOT SURE HOW THE FISH GOT IN THE SUSKY..THANKS FOR THE INFO ON THE DIFF'S..

RE: NEW PA STATE RECORD
 

Jerry,

That wasn't to correct you, just sharing info. This State DOES HAVE Saugeye but I found it ODD ;-) that the State doesn't have a catagory for the Saugeye record! Took ME by surprise!

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Jerry, It probably came out of Raystown Lake. I have caught sauger thers and just below in the Juniata River. Still a long swim, but there aren't any sauger in these waters either, lol.
I wonder if a Sauger fingerling or two could have been mixed into a batch of walleye fingerlings and not noticed when stocking...

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hey hunter..i was just reading about raystown when i read your post..i been looking into fishing there for the past couple of years..can you give me any input on it is it worth fishing??i know its a hot striper lake.. but what about the other types of fish..we have a store in altoona and i guess its not to far from there??ok let me know ............thanks

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Here's the world record saugeye. The world record sauger also came from Ft Peck

[url]http://www.walleyesunlimited.com/images/kibler.jpg[/url]


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