Native strain walleye

[Bassky]

I did hear the Native strain walleye were stocked in the Barren River during the show.
Bassky

[smashdn]

There is a little blurb about it on the Information board at the Wal-Mart on Campbell Lane in Bowling Green. I read it today while I was there. It said that the strain was stocked into the Barren River, but only said above the lake and didn't really give much more info. There is a whole lot of river "above the lake." Does anyone know where exactly they were stocked? I wouldn't mind catching (and releasing) some and the Barren river would be the closest place for me to catch any walleye.

[Bray]

I contacted John Williams on the subject as I became extremely interested in the subject. John provided me with a wealth of information. He also informed me on a masters thesis paper that was done on the subject and I checked it out from the EKU library and read it. It is a very interesting subject. John was able to provide me with raw data and the EKU paper had raw telemetry data. I might be able to answer some questions regarding the studies as I have read extensively on the subject, however I am no expert.

BTW, I was able to hookup with a nice 5lb 6 oz native strain walleye earlier this year. She was released to fight another day.

[Rowdy]

The local T.V. said 200,000 fingerlings were released In the river I think it was this spring and did say it was the native strain, Most were around the Holland Fountanrun bridge on highway 100.

This is way up the river,I hope they survive but there is lots of Amish that live in that area and they are very good Walleye fishermen.

Rowdy

[smashdn]

The highway 100 bridge is technically the upper boundary of the lake. However there are riffles both above the bridge and below it that can be waded across in rubber boots (probably not now though.) Size limit on walleye is 15 inches. If they are just fingerlings it may be some time before they are even big enough to catch and have a tussle in them.