WEBVTT 00:30.000 --> 00:36.000 I think that's a good topic to have, we have a portfolio class. 00:36.000 --> 00:41.000 At this whole new working area complex, we want to keep us productive while I'm working on the entire system, 00:41.000 --> 00:44.000 but you know we've addressed it in the 1960s. 00:44.000 --> 00:48.000 We asked them to go out and they go back to it, and they won't stop me, 00:48.000 --> 00:51.000 and still treat us with this market right here for an increase, 00:51.000 --> 00:54.000 which is the property understanding, why it's all packed. 00:55.000 --> 00:59.000 Out of all the sites, we're probably going to be 15 to 20, 00:59.000 --> 01:02.000 and this site, that's a lot of space. 01:02.000 --> 01:04.000 I think we're going to pack here long. 01:04.000 --> 01:06.000 And just like, you know, get a drink and drink, 01:06.000 --> 01:09.000 and you'll be able to do more time. 01:09.000 --> 01:11.000 Yeah, look at the multiple waters. 01:11.000 --> 01:12.000 Okay. 01:24.000 --> 01:44.000 Yeah. 01:44.000 --> 01:47.000 Nice day. 01:47.000 --> 01:49.000 I thought it'd be a lot colder. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 Yeah, I thought it'd be a little giving me the 20s. 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 When you said that, I'm like, oh no. 01:54.000 --> 01:56.000 They're looking like, what's he talking about? 01:56.000 --> 01:59.000 I'm the athlete. 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 All right, sorry, I'm glad I'm set. 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 All right. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 Excuse me. 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 No. 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 Sorry. 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 Is that nice? 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 That's all there is now through the past. 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 Ok. 02:34.000 --> 02:35.000 Don't wait. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 I'll be prepared. 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 See you next time. 02:42.000 --> 02:43.000 Let's go. 02:43.000 --> 02:44.000 Let's go. 02:44.000 --> 02:45.000 Easy. 02:45.000 --> 02:46.000 Hey, Luis. 03:46.000 --> 04:09.640 I like to get a big one, so it's just about to be in for the bus, isn't it? 04:09.640 --> 04:10.640 Yeah. 04:40.640 --> 04:41.640 Yeah. 04:41.640 --> 04:42.640 Yeah. 04:42.640 --> 04:43.640 Yeah. 04:43.640 --> 04:44.640 Yeah. 04:44.640 --> 04:45.640 Yeah. 04:45.640 --> 04:46.640 Yeah. 04:46.640 --> 04:47.640 Yeah. 05:15.640 --> 05:37.640 Yeah, you have to send it as well. 05:37.640 --> 05:38.640 Yeah, you have to send it as well. 05:38.640 --> 05:39.640 Yeah, you have to send it as well. 05:39.640 --> 05:40.640 If you do that, hold on to their sheet. 05:40.640 --> 05:43.640 If you guys watch, you have plenty of opportunity. 05:43.640 --> 05:47.560 Don't stick any parts of your body in the water for any reason at any time should be pretty 05:47.560 --> 05:48.560 straightforward. 05:48.560 --> 05:52.880 If you drop anything in the water and we like, drop the net in the water, your hat, something 05:52.880 --> 05:57.800 we need to pick it up, make sure to ask Angela if the juice is off before we go for it. 05:57.800 --> 06:02.360 If we get up into like some woody areas and you get your net caught on a tree limb or 06:02.360 --> 06:06.600 a branch or something, like, don't, like, you can just drop the net, like, yeah, you 06:06.600 --> 06:07.600 can try to get it off. 06:07.600 --> 06:10.720 But if it's really stuck in there, I've actually snapped the net myself trying to try 06:10.720 --> 06:11.720 it too hard. 06:11.720 --> 06:18.360 So I'd rather not snap nets and just go back and pick it up the black handle once you float. 06:18.360 --> 06:22.000 The biggest thing is trying not to knock my teeth out with the end of the pulp. 06:22.000 --> 06:26.440 Well, there it's probably the most dangerous thing, which is also why you will be back 06:26.440 --> 06:27.440 here. 06:27.440 --> 06:31.520 But yeah, other than that, Jason will open the tank up with some water in there and we're 06:31.520 --> 06:38.520 pretty much ready to go. 06:38.520 --> 07:01.360 25 feet of water out here on the main channel. 07:01.360 --> 07:06.360 All right, Jason, you're going to start time down. 07:06.360 --> 07:08.360 All right, you guys ready to go? 07:08.360 --> 07:09.360 One. 07:09.360 --> 07:10.360 One. 07:10.360 --> 07:11.360 One. 07:11.360 --> 07:12.360 One. 07:12.360 --> 07:13.360 One. 07:13.360 --> 07:14.360 One. 07:14.360 --> 07:15.360 One. 07:15.360 --> 07:16.360 One. 07:16.360 --> 07:17.360 One. 07:17.360 --> 07:18.360 One. 07:18.360 --> 07:19.360 One. 07:19.360 --> 07:20.360 One. 07:20.360 --> 07:21.360 One. 07:21.360 --> 07:22.360 One. 07:22.360 --> 07:23.360 One. 07:23.360 --> 07:24.360 One. 07:24.360 --> 07:25.360 One. 07:25.360 --> 07:26.360 One. 07:26.360 --> 07:27.360 One. 07:27.360 --> 07:28.360 One. 07:28.360 --> 07:29.360 One. 07:29.360 --> 07:30.360 One. 07:30.360 --> 07:31.360 One. 07:31.360 --> 07:32.360 One. 07:32.360 --> 07:33.360 One. 07:33.360 --> 07:34.360 One. 07:34.360 --> 07:35.360 One. 07:35.360 --> 07:36.360 One. 07:36.360 --> 07:37.360 One. 07:37.360 --> 07:38.360 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08:14.360 --> 08:15.360 One. 10:15.360 --> 10:39.000 So probably well educated anglers alike will always point to small diameter rock, gravel 10:39.000 --> 10:45.080 with water flow either in a river or a wind swept shoreline with good wave action to keep 10:45.080 --> 10:51.200 the eggs free of sediment as well as provide aeration for development, the water quality 10:51.200 --> 10:57.680 parameters there to keep the eggs free of sediment and while oxygenated is the same for when 10:57.680 --> 11:03.360 a bigger system will arrive however they spawn on a different substrate being marsh grass. 11:03.360 --> 11:07.960 So how that works is you typically have a upper end of the marsh and a lower end of 11:07.960 --> 11:12.880 the marsh, the marsh will basically have a directional flow going through it over toppling 11:12.960 --> 11:17.160 at the top end and then the marsh grass will get pushed back in the current kind of creating 11:17.160 --> 11:20.840 a mat and that's where the fish will lay their eggs. 11:20.840 --> 11:26.760 So they are kind of unique to the wind and bagel system and I would say the wind and 11:26.760 --> 11:34.240 bagel system is probably the largest marsh spawning walleye strain, probably that's even up there. 11:42.880 --> 11:49.880 A little pike just jumped right there, that'll get 30 inches. 12:12.880 --> 12:42.520 Yeah right now the new London river gate is at around 9.7, we've been out here doing 12:42.520 --> 12:47.080 this and that gate is at 1.5, when all the barges are completely dry and they're shocking 12:47.080 --> 12:56.040 the main channel of the river so hydro graph of the Wolf River can have some pretty impressive 13:27.040 --> 13:32.040 but you have five people on the boat down here, I've been told it's a pretty strict 13:32.040 --> 13:42.040 before but I got the target, I mean you could probably fit five people in here it's just 13:42.040 --> 13:43.040 at the boat. 13:43.040 --> 13:49.040 It was already drawn in before yeah, especially you got a camera. 13:49.040 --> 13:50.040 Yeah. 13:50.040 --> 13:58.040 Are you guys covered with stardins peering? 13:58.040 --> 14:07.040 No, we're just really focusing on walleye, pretty. 14:08.040 --> 14:13.040 Have you seen a, I'm pretty sure it's a PBS documentary, The Frozen Frozen? 14:13.040 --> 14:16.040 I think so yeah, that's pretty cool. 14:16.040 --> 14:28.040 Well that's basically out of our office, most of the coverage kind of camping around breath. 14:28.040 --> 14:35.040 Yeah that really gets fish in these marshes is the river will have much more thermal resistance, 14:35.040 --> 14:37.040 much more volume because it's a lot deeper. 14:37.040 --> 14:43.040 So when the water overtops the bank on the upper end and flows through the marsh it's 14:43.040 --> 14:48.040 much shallower, typically a dark bottom so if it's a sunny day or the sun will hit that 14:48.040 --> 14:56.040 dark bottom and warm the water up so then when the water travels through the marsh and 14:56.040 --> 15:02.040 exits at its downstream location it will basically create a temperature gradient where it's meeting 15:02.040 --> 15:06.040 the river and that's what's going to bring those fish into the marsh they want to go 15:06.040 --> 15:07.040 up there and spawn. 15:07.040 --> 15:12.040 That being said when we have a warm up and then things cool down really quickly you'll 15:12.040 --> 15:16.040 actually start to see warmer temperatures in the river comparatively to the marshes and 15:16.040 --> 15:27.040 that kind of shuts things down until it warms back up. 15:27.040 --> 15:32.040 The male fish will basically start to show up on the marshes as soon as the ice breaks 15:32.040 --> 15:37.040 up and then the females will start to find a couple hanging around in the lower portions 15:37.040 --> 15:42.040 of the marsh around 38 to 40 degrees and then things really start going crazy when you get 15:42.040 --> 15:48.040 to that 42 to 44 degree mark and then go well into when it's even upwards of that. 15:57.040 --> 16:18.040 This is our low the spawning marshes will not have any water in them so high water that 16:18.040 --> 16:23.040 we have right now is excellent direction on the highest I've seen it in my five seasons 16:24.040 --> 16:30.040 but that being said what you really need is the water to maintain its high level status 16:30.040 --> 16:33.040 one of the worst things that can happen for a while our spawn is for the water to come 16:33.040 --> 16:38.040 up really fast all the fish will enter the upper ends of the marshes so let all their 16:38.040 --> 16:43.040 eggs run up the water rapidly drops after that all of those eggs are left high and dry so 16:43.040 --> 16:47.040 what you really want for a successful all our spawn on the system here is high consistent 16:47.040 --> 16:53.040 water and you also like to see a relatively stable climb in water temperatures without 16:53.040 --> 17:00.040 massive fluctuations some years when we observed really rapid warm up followed by a long duration 17:00.040 --> 17:08.040 of colder temperatures we have seen that cause some disorder in the success of any given 17:08.040 --> 17:14.040 year class we observe and if you guys also have that story on the trial you did the amount 17:14.040 --> 17:18.040 of those little guys that we catch basically tells us how well the fish did up here and 17:18.040 --> 17:20.040 you give them spring 18:14.040 --> 18:17.040 so 18:17.040 --> 18:24.040 so 18:24.040 --> 18:29.040 so 18:29.040 --> 18:34.040 so 18:34.040 --> 18:39.040 so 18:39.040 --> 18:44.040 so 18:44.040 --> 18:49.040 so 18:49.040 --> 18:54.040 so 18:54.040 --> 18:59.040 so 18:59.040 --> 19:12.040 not sure if you guys are what kind of marsh visits you had with walls for tomorrow but at the upper 19:12.040 --> 19:19.040 end of this marsh there's a project type it's pretty common for the spawning marshes as 19:19.040 --> 19:24.040 there's been a long history of roads being built there's a big railroad going through 19:24.040 --> 19:33.040 one private landowners making roads and trails so kind of just restoring that is the intention 19:33.040 --> 19:40.040 there 19:40.040 --> 19:45.040 yeah they're great 19:45.040 --> 19:51.040 they're well funded they usually have the financial backing to do all the cool extra 19:51.040 --> 19:56.040 curricular stuff that we want to do 19:56.040 --> 20:01.040 like some of those movement studies that we've done like there's no way we'd be able to afford that 20:01.040 --> 20:06.040 on the state budget without groups like walleyes for tomorrow and many others on the system 20:06.040 --> 20:14.040 and the fall of 2021 we tagged 74 adult walleye in Lake Winnebago proper so 20:14.040 --> 20:20.040 tagging them in the fall in the lake basically you know indicating that those are true when a 20:20.040 --> 20:25.040 bagel resident fish and then we were with several things we were looking at that one of the primary 20:25.040 --> 20:30.040 purposes of that was to see the proportions of fish that ran up the wolf river the fox river 20:30.040 --> 20:37.040 or stayed in the lake to spawn and from that study we saw 91% of fish run up the wolf river 20:37.040 --> 20:44.040 so the wolf river is most definitely the most prolific productive spawning area for the Winnebago 20:44.040 --> 20:50.040 system law the Winnebago system law population and its general success really does pay 20:50.040 --> 20:55.040 respect to the amount of spawning habitat and the quality of spawning habitat that we have 20:55.040 --> 21:01.040 up here on the wall it's about 100 miles from Lake Pergin up to the Shano dam of 21:01.040 --> 21:07.040 undammed rivers so a lot of connected flood train and wetland between here and there 21:07.040 --> 21:13.040 providing a lot of areas for fish to spawn successfully there's some marshes that will operate 21:13.040 --> 21:19.040 at certain water levels and other marshes that require other ones so you know we have our 21:19.040 --> 21:24.040 water area marshes that will target and our high water area marshes that we target 21:24.040 --> 21:29.040 but this one right here that we're in it's kind of the new London area complex we have 21:29.040 --> 21:35.040 vinegars wolf rafts Leslie's and Hortonville flats and this has been one of the most prolific 21:35.040 --> 21:40.040 spawning marshes on the system documented all the way back to Gordon Prego's work way back in the 21:40.040 --> 21:42.040 1960s 21:42.040 --> 21:58.040 the lower ends of the marshes are typically where the female fish will stage up before 21:58.040 --> 22:04.040 going into the oh that's a big part that's about 35 bucks 22:04.040 --> 22:11.040 the females will stage down in the lower end before going up to the upper end of the marsh 22:11.040 --> 22:16.040 you actually drop their eggs and spawn the upper ends are typically shower you'll see more 22:16.040 --> 22:21.040 that marsh trash getting blown back and active current up there and we typically like to 22:21.040 --> 22:27.040 focus our survey efforts down in the lower end to capture pre-spawn first and then basically 22:27.040 --> 22:31.040 leave the upper ends alone like the first spawn 22:41.040 --> 22:45.040 so 22:45.040 --> 22:49.040 so 22:49.040 --> 22:55.040 so 22:55.040 --> 23:01.040 so 23:01.040 --> 23:07.040 so 23:07.040 --> 23:23.040 so 23:23.040 --> 23:27.040 so 23:27.040 --> 23:31.040 so 23:31.040 --> 23:35.040 so 23:35.040 --> 23:39.040 so 23:39.040 --> 23:43.040 so 23:43.040 --> 23:51.040 so 23:51.040 --> 23:53.040 so 23:53.040 --> 23:59.040 I think it's the deep water we're in six and a half feet right here we're not even gonna see everything 23:59.040 --> 24:07.040 well it's like when the water comes up on the low angles can also struggle the fish just 24:07.040 --> 24:15.040 have so much more area to spread out also it can just be a little bit more difficult to fish in the traditional 24:15.040 --> 24:19.040 ways a lot of the river fishing can do and flows are extremely high 24:19.040 --> 24:23.040 we can also have struggles with our survey back here in the marshes 24:23.040 --> 24:27.040 the water exceeds much over five feet the electricity 24:27.040 --> 24:31.040 it doesn't really penetrate down much further than that so I kind of have to go really small 24:31.040 --> 24:35.040 and then maybe try to get some more shallow areas 24:39.040 --> 24:43.040 so yeah this is just like interesting to see honestly it leaves a lot 24:57.040 --> 25:13.040 so 25:13.040 --> 25:17.040 so 25:17.040 --> 25:21.040 so 25:21.040 --> 25:25.040 so 25:25.040 --> 25:29.040 so 25:29.040 --> 25:33.040 so 25:33.040 --> 25:37.040 so 25:37.040 --> 25:45.040 so 25:45.040 --> 25:49.040 so 25:49.040 --> 25:53.040 so 25:53.040 --> 25:57.040 so 25:57.040 --> 26:01.040 so 26:01.040 --> 26:05.040 so 26:05.040 --> 26:13.040 so 26:13.040 --> 26:17.040 so 26:17.040 --> 26:21.040 so 26:21.040 --> 26:25.040 so 26:25.040 --> 26:33.040 so 26:33.040 --> 26:41.040 so 26:41.040 --> 26:45.040 so 26:45.040 --> 26:49.040 so 26:49.040 --> 26:57.040 so 26:57.040 --> 27:01.040 so 27:01.040 --> 27:09.040 so 27:09.040 --> 27:15.040 so 27:15.040 --> 27:19.040 so 27:19.040 --> 27:23.040 so 27:23.040 --> 27:27.040 so 27:27.040 --> 27:35.040 so 27:35.040 --> 27:39.040 so 27:39.040 --> 27:43.040 so 27:43.040 --> 27:47.040 so 27:47.040 --> 27:51.040 so 27:51.040 --> 27:55.040 so 27:55.040 --> 28:03.040 so 28:03.040 --> 28:07.040 so 28:07.040 --> 28:11.040 so 28:11.040 --> 28:19.040 so 28:19.040 --> 28:23.040 so 28:23.040 --> 28:31.040 so 28:31.040 --> 28:35.040 so 28:35.040 --> 28:39.040 so 28:39.040 --> 28:55.040 so 28:55.040 --> 28:59.040 so 28:59.040 --> 29:03.040 so 29:03.040 --> 29:07.040 so 29:07.040 --> 29:23.040 so 29:23.040 --> 29:27.040 so 29:27.040 --> 29:31.040 so 29:31.040 --> 29:35.040 so 29:35.040 --> 29:47.040 so 29:47.040 --> 29:51.040 so 29:51.040 --> 29:55.040 so 29:55.040 --> 29:59.040 so 29:59.040 --> 30:03.040 so 30:03.040 --> 30:07.040 so 30:07.040 --> 30:11.040 so 30:11.040 --> 30:15.040 so 30:15.040 --> 30:23.040 so 30:23.040 --> 30:27.040 so 30:27.040 --> 30:31.040 so 30:31.040 --> 30:35.040 so 30:35.040 --> 30:39.040 so 30:39.040 --> 30:43.040 so 30:43.040 --> 30:51.040 so 30:51.040 --> 30:55.040 so 30:55.040 --> 30:59.040 so 30:59.040 --> 31:03.040 so 31:03.040 --> 31:07.040 so 31:07.040 --> 31:15.040 so 31:15.040 --> 31:19.040 so 31:19.040 --> 31:23.040 so 31:23.040 --> 31:27.040 so 31:27.040 --> 31:31.040 so 31:31.040 --> 31:39.040 so 31:39.040 --> 31:43.040 so 31:43.040 --> 31:47.040 so 31:47.040 --> 31:57.040 so 31:57.040 --> 32:01.040 so 32:01.040 --> 32:07.040 so 32:07.040 --> 32:11.040 so 32:11.040 --> 32:15.040 so 32:15.040 --> 32:19.040 so 32:19.040 --> 32:23.040 so 32:23.040 --> 32:27.040 so 32:27.040 --> 32:35.040 so 32:35.040 --> 32:39.040 so 32:39.040 --> 32:43.040 so 32:43.040 --> 32:47.040 so 32:47.040 --> 32:51.040 so 32:51.040 --> 32:55.040 so 32:55.040 --> 33:03.040 so 33:03.040 --> 33:07.040 so 33:07.040 --> 33:11.040 so 33:11.040 --> 33:15.040 so 33:15.040 --> 33:19.040 so 33:19.040 --> 33:23.040 so 33:23.040 --> 33:31.040 so 33:31.040 --> 33:35.040 so 33:35.040 --> 33:39.040 so 33:39.040 --> 33:43.040 so 33:43.040 --> 33:47.040 so 33:47.040 --> 33:51.040 so 33:51.040 --> 33:59.040 so 33:59.040 --> 34:03.040 so 34:03.040 --> 34:07.040 so 34:07.040 --> 34:11.040 so 34:11.040 --> 34:15.040 so 34:15.040 --> 34:19.040 so 34:19.040 --> 34:27.040 so 34:27.040 --> 34:33.040 so 34:33.040 --> 34:35.040 so 34:35.040 --> 34:39.040 so 34:39.040 --> 34:43.040 so 34:43.040 --> 34:47.040 so 34:47.040 --> 34:51.040 so 34:51.040 --> 34:55.040 so 34:55.040 --> 34:59.040 so 34:59.040 --> 35:03.040 so 35:03.040 --> 35:05.040 so 35:05.040 --> 35:07.040 so 35:07.040 --> 35:11.040 so 35:11.040 --> 35:15.040 so 35:15.040 --> 35:19.040 so 35:19.040 --> 35:23.040 so 35:23.040 --> 35:27.040 so 35:27.040 --> 35:31.040 so 35:31.040 --> 35:39.040 so 35:39.040 --> 35:43.040 so 35:43.040 --> 35:47.040 so 35:47.040 --> 35:51.040 so 35:51.040 --> 35:55.040 so 35:55.040 --> 35:59.040 so 35:59.040 --> 36:03.040 so 36:03.040 --> 36:07.040 so 36:07.040 --> 36:11.040 so 36:11.040 --> 36:15.040 so 36:15.040 --> 36:19.040 so 36:19.040 --> 36:23.040 so 36:23.040 --> 36:27.040 so 36:27.040 --> 36:35.040 so 36:35.040 --> 36:39.040 so 36:39.040 --> 36:43.040 so 36:43.040 --> 36:47.040 so 36:47.040 --> 36:51.040 so 36:51.040 --> 36:55.040 so 36:55.040 --> 36:59.040 so 36:59.040 --> 37:03.040 so 37:03.040 --> 37:07.040 so 37:07.040 --> 37:15.040 so 37:15.040 --> 37:19.040 so 37:19.040 --> 37:23.040 so 37:23.040 --> 37:27.040 so 37:27.040 --> 37:31.040 so 37:31.040 --> 37:35.040 so 37:35.040 --> 37:43.040 so 37:43.040 --> 37:47.040 so 37:47.040 --> 37:51.040 so 37:51.040 --> 37:55.040 so 37:55.040 --> 37:59.040 so 37:59.040 --> 38:03.040 so 38:03.040 --> 38:11.040 so 38:11.040 --> 38:15.040 so 38:15.040 --> 38:19.040 so 38:19.040 --> 38:27.040 so 38:27.040 --> 38:31.040 so 38:31.040 --> 38:35.040 so 38:35.040 --> 38:39.040 so 38:39.040 --> 38:43.040 so 38:43.040 --> 38:47.040 so 38:47.040 --> 38:51.040 so 38:51.040 --> 38:55.040 so 38:55.040 --> 38:59.040 so 38:59.040 --> 39:07.040 so 39:07.040 --> 39:11.040 so 39:11.040 --> 39:15.040 so 39:15.040 --> 39:19.040 so 39:19.040 --> 39:23.040 so 39:23.040 --> 39:29.040 so 39:29.040 --> 39:35.040 so 39:35.040 --> 39:39.040 so 39:39.040 --> 39:43.040 so 39:43.040 --> 39:47.040 so 39:47.040 --> 39:51.040 so 39:51.040 --> 39:55.040 so 39:55.040 --> 40:03.040 so 40:03.040 --> 40:07.040 so 40:07.040 --> 40:11.040 so 40:11.040 --> 40:15.040 so 40:15.040 --> 40:19.040 so 40:19.040 --> 40:23.040 so 40:23.040 --> 40:31.040 so 40:31.040 --> 40:35.040 so 40:35.040 --> 40:39.040 so 40:39.040 --> 40:47.040 so 40:47.040 --> 40:51.040 so 40:51.040 --> 40:55.040 so 40:55.040 --> 40:59.040 so 40:59.040 --> 41:03.040 so 41:03.040 --> 41:07.040 so 41:07.040 --> 41:11.040 so 41:11.040 --> 41:15.040 so 41:15.040 --> 41:19.040 so 41:19.040 --> 41:23.040 so 41:23.040 --> 41:27.040 so 41:27.040 --> 41:31.040 so 41:31.040 --> 41:35.040 so 41:35.040 --> 41:37.040 so 41:37.040 --> 41:39.040 so 41:39.040 --> 41:43.040 so 41:43.040 --> 41:47.040 so 41:47.040 --> 41:51.040 so 41:51.040 --> 41:55.040 so 41:55.040 --> 41:59.040 so 41:59.040 --> 42:03.040 so 42:03.040 --> 42:07.040 so 42:07.040 --> 42:11.040 so 42:11.040 --> 42:15.040 so 42:15.040 --> 42:19.040 so 42:19.040 --> 42:23.040 so 42:23.040 --> 42:27.040 so 42:27.040 --> 42:31.040 so 42:31.040 --> 42:35.040 so 42:35.040 --> 42:39.040 so 42:39.040 --> 42:43.040 so 42:43.040 --> 42:47.040 so 42:47.040 --> 42:51.040 so 42:51.040 --> 42:55.040 so 42:55.040 --> 42:59.040 so 42:59.040 --> 43:03.040 so 43:03.040 --> 43:07.040 so 43:07.040 --> 43:11.040 so 43:11.040 --> 43:19.040 so 43:19.040 --> 43:23.040 so 43:23.040 --> 43:27.040 so 43:27.040 --> 43:31.040 so 43:31.040 --> 43:35.040 so 43:35.040 --> 43:39.040 so 43:39.040 --> 43:43.040 so 43:43.040 --> 43:47.040 so 43:47.040 --> 43:51.040 so 43:51.040 --> 43:55.040 so 43:55.040 --> 44:01.040 so 44:01.040 --> 44:03.040 so 44:03.040 --> 44:07.040 so if you get a shot of that right there that is the 44:07.040 --> 44:11.040 right now when the water is so high the water is going to flood the river 44:11.040 --> 44:15.040 regardless because you know it's going to over top the bank even where that 44:15.040 --> 44:19.040 bank cut does not exist but in lower water years that really helps 44:19.040 --> 44:23.040 to facilitate water getting into the marsh it's actually really 44:23.040 --> 44:27.040 impressive how much water water it's doing and then you can see it feeds directly 44:27.040 --> 44:31.040 into the marsh and again this is one of the most 44:31.040 --> 44:35.040 most productive while I'm spawning marshes on the entire system you can see that little cut 44:35.040 --> 44:43.040 right through the woods there 44:43.040 --> 44:49.040 so 44:49.040 --> 44:53.040 you could even drive the boat through there on a day like today 45:05.040 --> 45:09.040 So yeah that one really gets flowing around six seven feet and right 45:09.040 --> 45:13.040 now we're approaching ten feet so 45:13.040 --> 45:17.040 a 45:17.040 --> 45:21.040 little bit more rain in the forecast as well 45:21.040 --> 45:33.040 in addition to 45:33.040 --> 45:37.040 providing aeration and keeping the eggs free of 45:37.040 --> 45:41.040 sediment and debris as they develop the water flow through 45:41.040 --> 45:45.040 the marsh also I'm back into the wolf river and some 45:45.040 --> 45:49.040 secretly down into the pool lakes on the system where the 45:49.040 --> 45:53.040 zooplankton hatches which is their primary food source of larval fish are 45:53.040 --> 45:57.040 much more abundant 45:57.040 --> 46:01.040 The faster a larval fish can get a piece of zooplankton 46:01.040 --> 46:05.040 in front of its face the more likely it is it's going to 46:05.040 --> 46:09.040 survive 46:15.040 --> 46:19.040 that also plays into temperature temperature can 46:19.040 --> 46:23.040 be correlated to more or less 46:23.040 --> 46:27.040 productive zooplankton booms 46:27.040 --> 46:31.040 if you have eight 46:35.040 --> 46:39.040 six 46:39.040 --> 46:43.040 five 46:43.040 --> 46:47.040 eight 46:47.040 --> 46:51.040 eight 46:51.040 --> 46:55.040 eight 46:55.040 --> 46:59.040 eight 46:59.040 --> 47:03.040 eight 47:33.040 --> 47:35.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:35.040 --> 47:37.040 I'm going to take a look at this. 47:37.040 --> 47:39.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:39.040 --> 47:41.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:41.040 --> 47:43.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:43.040 --> 47:45.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:45.040 --> 47:47.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:47.040 --> 47:49.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:49.040 --> 47:51.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:51.040 --> 47:53.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:53.040 --> 47:55.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:55.040 --> 47:57.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:57.040 --> 47:59.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 47:59.040 --> 48:01.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:01.040 --> 48:03.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:03.040 --> 48:05.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:05.040 --> 48:07.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:07.040 --> 48:09.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:09.040 --> 48:11.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:11.040 --> 48:13.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:13.040 --> 48:15.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:15.040 --> 48:17.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:17.040 --> 48:19.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:19.040 --> 48:21.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:21.040 --> 48:23.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:23.040 --> 48:25.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:25.040 --> 48:27.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:27.040 --> 48:29.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:29.040 --> 48:31.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:31.040 --> 48:33.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:33.040 --> 48:35.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:35.040 --> 48:37.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:37.040 --> 48:39.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:39.040 --> 48:41.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:41.040 --> 48:43.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:43.040 --> 48:45.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:45.040 --> 48:47.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:47.040 --> 48:49.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:49.040 --> 48:51.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:51.040 --> 48:53.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:53.040 --> 48:55.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:55.040 --> 48:57.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:57.040 --> 48:59.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 48:59.040 --> 49:01.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:01.040 --> 49:03.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:03.040 --> 49:05.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:05.040 --> 49:07.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:07.040 --> 49:09.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:09.040 --> 49:11.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:11.040 --> 49:13.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:13.040 --> 49:15.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:15.040 --> 49:17.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:17.040 --> 49:19.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:19.040 --> 49:21.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:21.040 --> 49:23.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:23.040 --> 49:25.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:25.040 --> 49:27.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:27.040 --> 49:29.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:29.040 --> 49:31.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:31.040 --> 49:33.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:33.040 --> 49:35.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:35.040 --> 49:37.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:37.040 --> 49:39.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:39.040 --> 49:41.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:41.040 --> 49:43.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:43.040 --> 49:45.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:45.040 --> 49:47.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:47.040 --> 49:49.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:49.040 --> 49:51.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:51.040 --> 49:53.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:53.040 --> 49:55.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:55.040 --> 49:57.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:57.040 --> 49:59.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 49:59.040 --> 50:01.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:01.040 --> 50:03.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:03.040 --> 50:05.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:05.040 --> 50:07.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:07.040 --> 50:09.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:09.040 --> 50:11.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:11.040 --> 50:13.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:13.040 --> 50:15.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:15.040 --> 50:17.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:17.040 --> 50:19.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:19.040 --> 50:21.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:21.040 --> 50:23.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:23.040 --> 50:25.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:25.040 --> 50:27.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:27.040 --> 50:29.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:29.040 --> 50:31.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:31.040 --> 50:33.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:33.040 --> 50:35.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:35.040 --> 50:37.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:37.040 --> 50:41.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:41.040 --> 50:43.040 I'm going to take a look at this one look. 50:43.040 --> 50:45.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:45.040 --> 50:47.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:47.040 --> 50:49.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:49.040 --> 50:51.040 I'm going to take a look at this one. 50:52.040 --> 50:54.040 I am going to take a look at this one. 50:54.040 --> 50:56.040 I am going to take a look at this one. 50:56.040 --> 50:58.040 I am going to take a look at this one. 50:58.040 --> 51:00.040 I am going to take a look at this one. 51:00.040 --> 51:01.040 Don't forget this thing. 51:01.040 --> 51:02.040 No, don't forget this thing. 51:02.040 --> 51:06.040 No, no, no, no. 51:06.040 --> 51:07.040 15-0. 51:07.040 --> 51:08.040 Hold tight. 51:08.040 --> 51:09.040 2-1-3-6-6-8. 51:09.040 --> 51:10.040 Good go. 51:10.040 --> 51:11.040 You're out. 51:11.040 --> 51:12.040 Log fell off. 51:12.040 --> 51:13.040 I don't have a motor right here. 51:13.040 --> 51:14.040 There's a thin glass right out of it. 51:14.040 --> 51:15.040 Good. 51:15.040 --> 51:16.040 Good. 51:16.040 --> 51:17.040 Good. 51:17.040 --> 51:18.040 Good. 51:18.040 --> 51:19.040 Good. 51:19.040 --> 51:20.040 Good. 51:20.040 --> 51:21.040 Good. 51:21.040 --> 51:22.040 Good. 51:22.040 --> 51:23.040 Good. 51:23.040 --> 51:24.040 Good. 51:24.040 --> 51:25.040 Good. 51:25.040 --> 51:26.040 Good. 51:26.040 --> 51:27.040 Good. 51:27.040 --> 51:28.040 Good. 51:28.040 --> 51:29.040 Good. 51:29.040 --> 51:30.040 Good. 51:30.040 --> 51:31.040 Good. 51:31.040 --> 51:32.040 Good. 51:32.040 --> 51:33.040 Good. 51:33.040 --> 51:34.040 Good. 51:34.040 --> 51:35.040 Good. 51:35.040 --> 51:39.040 Now I get this recap out of the way. 51:39.040 --> 51:43.040 Record fresh recaps this year, unless you didn't get them the same day. 51:43.040 --> 51:46.040 Obviously these aren't from the same day. 51:46.040 --> 51:52.040 This is a fisher probably tagged a couple days ago. 51:52.040 --> 51:57.040 You see how bright yellow the tag is still. 51:57.040 --> 51:58.040 You're very common. 51:58.040 --> 52:04.040 One of the biggest system walleye here. 52:04.040 --> 52:12.360 15.6 and the whole tag number is 208-411, yeah that was a recap right? 52:12.360 --> 52:13.360 Yeah. 52:13.360 --> 52:14.360 No! 52:14.360 --> 52:15.360 14-9. 52:15.360 --> 52:16.360 No! 52:16.360 --> 52:17.360 15-0. 52:18.280 --> 52:19.360 No! 52:23.180 --> 52:24.520 No! 52:24.520 --> 52:26.520 15-0! 52:30.400 --> 52:32.400 No! 16-7! 52:38.000 --> 52:40.000 No! 16-1! 52:44.640 --> 52:46.320 No! 52:46.320 --> 53:03.960 female green 19-2 a bunch of grass in here 53:03.960 --> 53:09.400 have a green grass 17-2 last time on the rock 53:09.400 --> 53:14.480 drag track 2-1-3-6-7-5 53:14.480 --> 53:36.940 salar sequence 53:36.940 --> 53:38.940 okay 53:38.940 --> 53:46.940 Oh boy, 18-9. 53:46.940 --> 53:52.940 May I 18-4? 53:52.940 --> 53:56.940 Let me take you home. 53:56.940 --> 54:01.940 May I 14-0? 54:01.940 --> 54:06.940 May I 16-4? 54:06.940 --> 54:11.940 BMO! 54:11.940 --> 54:16.940 Green! 54:16.940 --> 54:19.940 22-0? 54:19.940 --> 54:26.940 I had a 28 entry yesterday. 54:26.940 --> 54:31.940 She was spawned out there, so I've seen a lot less impressive. 54:31.940 --> 54:34.940 17-0? 54:34.940 --> 54:39.940 17-0? 54:39.940 --> 54:44.940 13-2? 54:44.940 --> 54:49.940 13-4? 54:49.940 --> 54:54.940 13-4? 54:54.940 --> 54:59.940 13-5? 54:59.940 --> 55:04.940 15-0? 55:04.940 --> 55:09.940 Green! 55:09.940 --> 55:12.940 21-1? 55:12.940 --> 55:22.940 Nice one. 55:22.940 --> 55:28.940 13-5? 55:28.940 --> 55:36.940 13-9? 55:36.940 --> 55:51.940 Green! 23-7? 55:51.940 --> 55:56.940 Green! 55:56.940 --> 56:03.940 22-6? 56:03.940 --> 56:08.940 Green! 56:08.940 --> 56:13.940 22-6? 56:13.940 --> 56:18.940 13-9? 56:18.940 --> 56:23.940 13-9? 56:24.940 --> 56:31.940 May I 18-2? 56:31.940 --> 56:39.940 May I 18-9? 56:39.940 --> 56:46.940 May I 15-3? 56:46.940 --> 56:51.940 May I 14-6? 56:51.940 --> 56:59.940 May I 17-6? 56:59.940 --> 57:06.940 May I 15-1? 57:06.940 --> 57:11.940 May I 16-7? 57:11.940 --> 57:14.940 May I 16-9? 57:14.940 --> 57:19.940 Last time on the rack, next fish coming as a recap? 57:19.940 --> 57:23.940 May I 15-1? 57:23.940 --> 57:34.940 Tag is 208417? 57:34.940 --> 57:39.940 Oh, gotcha. 57:39.940 --> 57:43.940 May I 15-3? 57:43.940 --> 57:49.940 Hold tag, 2-1-3-7-0-2? 57:49.940 --> 57:54.940 May I 15-6? 57:54.940 --> 57:59.940 May I 16-1? 57:59.940 --> 58:04.940 May I 15-6? 58:04.940 --> 58:11.940 May I 15-5? 58:11.940 --> 58:19.940 May I 16-7? 58:19.940 --> 58:24.940 May I 14-4? 58:24.940 --> 58:27.940 May I 13-9? 58:27.940 --> 58:30.940 Tag check, oh, 9? 58:31.940 --> 58:38.940 Green, 19-2? 58:38.940 --> 58:44.940 May I 15-7? 58:44.940 --> 58:50.940 May I 14-2? 58:50.940 --> 58:55.940 May I 15-3? 58:56.940 --> 59:00.940 May I 19-0? 59:00.940 --> 59:03.940 Got a tag? 59:03.940 --> 59:09.940 May I 15-1? 59:09.940 --> 59:17.940 May I 16-3? 59:17.940 --> 59:25.940 May I 17-2? 59:25.940 --> 59:30.940 May I 18-2? 59:30.940 --> 59:40.940 Green, 21-2? 59:40.940 --> 59:45.940 May I 15-1? 59:45.940 --> 59:52.940 May I 18-1? 59:52.940 --> 59:58.940 May I 16-7? 59:58.940 --> 01:00:02.940 May I 16-3? 01:00:02.940 --> 01:00:09.940 May I 14-2? 01:00:09.940 --> 01:00:11.940 May I 16-2? 01:00:11.940 --> 01:00:16.940 Last time on the rack, tag check, 21-3-7-2-5? 01:00:16.940 --> 01:00:28.940 Yeah? 01:00:28.940 --> 01:00:33.940 Fimo green, 19-1? 01:00:33.940 --> 01:00:36.940 May I get a tag check on the next time? 01:00:36.940 --> 01:00:40.940 Fimo green, 20-0? 01:00:40.940 --> 01:00:45.940 Tag check, 27? 01:00:45.940 --> 01:00:51.940 15-1. 01:00:51.940 --> 01:00:57.940 15-2. 01:00:57.940 --> 01:01:03.940 15-8. 01:01:03.940 --> 01:01:08.940 15-1. 01:01:08.940 --> 01:01:13.940 15-5. 01:01:14.940 --> 01:01:19.940 Boy, 15-5. 01:01:19.940 --> 01:01:26.940 Boy, 15-5. 01:01:26.940 --> 01:01:36.940 Boy, 14-7. 01:01:36.940 --> 01:01:40.940 Spent girl. 01:01:40.940 --> 01:01:49.940 19-4. 01:01:49.940 --> 01:01:57.940 10-check 3-5. 01:01:57.940 --> 01:02:04.940 No, 16-6. 01:02:04.940 --> 01:02:10.940 No, 19-3. 01:02:10.940 --> 01:02:15.940 No, 14-8. 01:02:15.940 --> 01:02:21.940 No, 14-6. 01:02:21.940 --> 01:02:27.940 No, 14-0. 01:02:27.940 --> 01:02:32.940 No, 17-6. 01:02:32.940 --> 01:02:38.940 No, 14-5. 01:02:38.940 --> 01:02:45.940 15-1. 01:02:45.940 --> 01:02:50.940 18-0. 01:02:50.940 --> 01:02:56.940 14-0. 01:02:56.940 --> 01:03:01.940 15-3. 01:03:01.940 --> 01:03:04.940 16-1. 01:03:04.940 --> 01:03:07.940 Yeah, we'll get that. 01:03:07.940 --> 01:03:14.940 It's called cold water works or lymphocystis. 01:03:14.940 --> 01:03:17.940 No, 19. 01:03:17.940 --> 01:03:25.940 We need low 19s. 01:03:25.940 --> 01:03:36.940 It's way back. 01:03:36.940 --> 01:03:43.940 Back it. 01:03:43.940 --> 01:03:52.940 We need a small number of fish for an age sample. 01:03:52.940 --> 01:03:58.940 That was 19-4. 01:03:58.940 --> 01:04:01.940 No, 14-4. 01:04:01.940 --> 01:04:07.940 Tag-check 4-8. 01:04:07.940 --> 01:04:13.940 No, 15-4. 01:04:13.940 --> 01:04:14.940 No, 14-4. 01:04:14.940 --> 01:04:16.940 Last tag on the rack. 01:04:16.940 --> 01:04:30.940 Tag-check 2-1-3-7-5-0. 01:04:30.940 --> 01:04:32.940 No, 16-2. 01:04:32.940 --> 01:04:38.940 Hold tag 2-1-3-7-5-1. 01:04:38.940 --> 01:04:43.940 No, 13-9. 01:04:43.940 --> 01:04:49.940 No, 16-5. 01:04:49.940 --> 01:04:56.940 No, 14-8. 01:04:56.940 --> 01:05:02.940 No, 18-4. 01:05:02.940 --> 01:05:07.940 No, 16-6. 01:05:07.940 --> 01:05:13.940 Tag-check 56. 01:05:13.940 --> 01:05:19.940 15-8-10. 01:05:19.940 --> 01:05:32.940 Hold tag 2-1-3-7-5-7. 01:05:32.940 --> 01:05:41.940 No, 15-4. 01:05:41.940 --> 01:05:48.940 No, 15-4. 01:05:48.940 --> 01:05:53.940 No, 15-7. 01:05:53.940 --> 01:06:00.940 No, 18-4. 01:06:00.940 --> 01:06:06.940 No, 14-9. 01:06:06.940 --> 01:06:14.940 16-5. 01:06:14.940 --> 01:06:24.940 16-2. 01:06:24.940 --> 01:06:31.940 15-2. 01:06:31.940 --> 01:06:38.940 15-4. 01:06:38.940 --> 01:06:44.940 15-4. 01:06:44.940 --> 01:06:51.940 15-8. 01:06:51.940 --> 01:06:57.940 13-6. 01:06:57.940 --> 01:07:04.940 15-7. 01:07:04.940 --> 01:07:05.940 15-3. 01:07:05.940 --> 01:07:07.940 Last tag on the rack. 01:07:07.940 --> 01:07:12.940 Tag-check 2-1-3-7-5-7-5-0. 01:07:12.940 --> 01:07:15.940 That was so good. 01:07:15.940 --> 01:07:18.940 We didn't sack one fish, did I get you up? 01:07:18.940 --> 01:07:20.940 No, I was- 01:07:20.940 --> 01:07:23.940 You ready? 01:07:23.940 --> 01:07:28.940 No, 14-5. 01:07:28.940 --> 01:07:31.940 No, 14-2. 01:07:31.940 --> 01:07:41.940 Hold tag 2-1-3-7-7-7-7. 01:07:41.940 --> 01:07:46.940 No, 13-7. 01:07:46.940 --> 01:07:49.940 Good girl. 01:07:49.940 --> 01:07:56.940 You may have green. 01:07:56.940 --> 01:08:01.940 24-3. 01:08:01.940 --> 01:08:06.940 Tag-check 2-1-3-7-7-8. 01:08:06.940 --> 01:08:14.940 2-1-3-7-7-9, I'm sorry. 01:08:14.940 --> 01:08:25.940 I was like, I just tag-check 2-1-7-2-7-2-8-9. 01:08:25.940 --> 01:08:30.940 Yep. 01:08:30.940 --> 01:08:35.940 No, 14-4. 01:08:35.940 --> 01:08:42.940 We need 12-13s. 01:08:42.940 --> 01:08:47.940 No. 01:08:47.940 --> 01:08:52.940 No, 13-3. 01:08:52.940 --> 01:08:55.940 Little guy. 01:08:55.940 --> 01:09:02.940 No, 16-3. 01:09:02.940 --> 01:09:09.940 No, 13-8. 01:09:09.940 --> 01:09:16.940 No, 17-1. 01:09:16.940 --> 01:09:21.940 No, 15-6. 01:09:21.940 --> 01:09:26.940 14-4. 01:09:26.940 --> 01:09:31.940 Tag-check 9-6. 01:09:31.940 --> 01:09:38.940 15-9. 01:09:38.940 --> 01:09:45.940 15-8. 01:09:45.940 --> 01:09:52.940 14-6. 01:09:53.940 --> 01:10:02.940 I'll be surprised they can hide in there sometimes. 01:10:02.940 --> 01:10:06.940 All right, probably all she wrote. 01:10:06.940 --> 01:10:11.940 There's one more tag on the rack, right? 01:10:11.940 --> 01:10:15.940 All right, we'll do one more quick run just in the lower end here. 01:10:15.940 --> 01:10:20.940 Try to pick off some girls and then probably get back on the trailer 01:10:20.940 --> 01:10:24.940 if you guys be on your way. 01:10:24.940 --> 01:10:28.940 I guess give me a sense of where we are and it looks a little different 01:10:28.940 --> 01:10:32.940 than it might in some years, but what is this place? 01:10:32.940 --> 01:10:36.940 Yeah, so it's April 6, 2026. 01:10:36.940 --> 01:10:40.940 The Wolf River Wall I spawn is definitely underway. 01:10:40.940 --> 01:10:44.940 Got some warmer weather here coming up that will probably really get things 01:10:44.940 --> 01:10:47.940 to get going here. 01:10:47.940 --> 01:10:51.940 It's one of the most important, Hortonville area marshes. 01:10:51.940 --> 01:10:55.940 One of the many marsh complexes that are found along the Wolf River 01:10:55.940 --> 01:10:59.940 where the Winnebago system all I come to spawn each spring. 01:10:59.940 --> 01:11:03.940 Most people that know anything about walleye spawning know gravel-based, 01:11:03.940 --> 01:11:06.940 rocky shores, so how does this fit into with walleye? 01:11:06.940 --> 01:11:08.940 What do they do this here? 01:11:08.940 --> 01:11:11.940 Yeah, so if you talk to biologists around the Midwest or even 01:11:11.940 --> 01:11:14.940 well-educated anglers when you talk about walleye spawning, 01:11:14.940 --> 01:11:18.940 a wild diameter rock or even gravel either in a river or a wind-swept shoreline 01:11:18.940 --> 01:11:22.940 on a lake that provides good current to keep the 01:11:22.940 --> 01:11:26.940 eggs free of sediment as well as well aerated during the development 01:11:26.940 --> 01:11:30.940 process, and those two water quality parameters here on the Wolf River 01:11:30.940 --> 01:11:34.940 are the same, however, the substrate on which the walleye spawn 01:11:34.940 --> 01:11:38.940 is very different. So the Winnebago strain of walleye are actually a 01:11:38.940 --> 01:11:42.940 marsh spawning strain of walleye, likely the most successful marsh spawning strain 01:11:42.940 --> 01:11:46.940 of walleye anywhere in the world. The fish come all the way 01:11:46.940 --> 01:11:50.940 from Winnebago and the pool lake, anywhere between 60 and maybe even 01:11:50.940 --> 01:11:54.940 pushing 100 miles on their journey upstream, so almost a 01:11:54.940 --> 01:11:58.940 could be a 200 mile round-trip journey forum. Basically 01:11:58.940 --> 01:12:02.940 what happens up here on the Wolf River as well as the upper 01:12:02.940 --> 01:12:06.940 Fox River, the flooded wetlands adjacent 01:12:06.940 --> 01:12:10.940 to the Wolf River, we refer to them as walleye spawning marshes. 01:12:10.940 --> 01:12:14.940 The way that the water flows through them can be dynamic with the water from the river 01:12:14.940 --> 01:12:18.940 over topping the bank throughout several sections of the entire 01:12:18.940 --> 01:12:22.940 length of the marsh, but the general idea is that the water will enter 01:12:22.940 --> 01:12:26.940 at a upper end location and then travel in a 01:12:26.940 --> 01:12:30.940 directional fashion down through the marsh and exit at a lower end. 01:12:30.940 --> 01:12:34.940 So we typically always enter the marshes at the lower end, and that is 01:12:34.940 --> 01:12:38.940 also what the fish will typically do. The marshes are a lot shallower than the 01:12:38.940 --> 01:12:42.940 main channel of the river here, so they have a lot less thermal resistance. If you get a nice 01:12:42.940 --> 01:12:46.940 day, nice spring day, and the sun's coming down, 01:12:46.940 --> 01:12:50.940 the dark bottom of the marshes and the shallow water will heat up a lot faster, 01:12:50.940 --> 01:12:54.940 so as the water is making its way through the marsh, 01:12:54.940 --> 01:12:58.940 it'll actually heat up and then actually create a little bit of a temperature gradient at the lower end 01:12:58.940 --> 01:13:02.940 where it meets up with the river. The fish making their migration up river will feel that 01:13:02.940 --> 01:13:06.940 and enter the marsh to go spawn. So when we talk about 01:13:06.940 --> 01:13:10.940 habitat, there's a lot of stories about climate change 01:13:10.940 --> 01:13:14.940 and lake shore development, and this is pretty unique 01:13:14.940 --> 01:13:18.940 and the amount of people over decades that have made sure that this habitat 01:13:18.940 --> 01:13:22.940 has not been drained or dredged or put into farmland 01:13:22.940 --> 01:13:26.940 or is still available for this. Yeah, so in general, the Winnebago system 01:13:26.940 --> 01:13:30.940 is home to one of the Midwest premier walleye fisheries. 01:13:30.940 --> 01:13:34.940 That being said, it is 100% sustained through natural reproduction and 01:13:34.940 --> 01:13:38.940 the success of that fishery really pays due to the 01:13:38.940 --> 01:13:42.940 amount and the quality of habitat up here 01:13:42.940 --> 01:13:46.940 on the Wolf River for spawning purposes. There are different 01:13:46.940 --> 01:13:50.940 things that happen up here, like there's different county highways 01:13:50.940 --> 01:13:54.940 that go across the floodplain that kind of create big dams and dykes. There's private land 01:13:54.940 --> 01:13:58.940 owners making trails and roads through their own property and then there's another one 01:13:58.940 --> 01:14:02.940 and a little bit south of here that has a big railroad going through it. 01:14:02.940 --> 01:14:06.940 Due to those kind of reasons, the disruption of that connectivity 01:14:06.940 --> 01:14:10.940 through those wetlands, that is typically viewed as bad for the 01:14:10.940 --> 01:14:14.940 water flow through those marshes. So groups like the Wisconsin Department of Natural 01:14:14.940 --> 01:14:18.940 Resources, walleyes for tomorrow, shadows on the Wolf, and many others 01:14:18.940 --> 01:14:22.940 that financially contribute will essentially conduct projects that promote the water 01:14:22.940 --> 01:14:26.940 flow through those marshes. A really common one is either the modification or removal 01:14:26.940 --> 01:14:30.940 of dams and dykes that may have been put in from 01:14:30.940 --> 01:14:34.940 maybe potential road projects or private land owners 01:14:34.940 --> 01:14:38.940 wanting to make their property more accessible. 01:14:38.940 --> 01:14:42.940 There's also covert projects that 01:14:42.940 --> 01:14:46.940 again will either be put into a dam or a high point in a bank to help 01:14:46.940 --> 01:14:50.940 facilitate water flow. And then another common one are bank cuts. 01:14:50.940 --> 01:14:54.940 So in certain water level years, the water may not be high enough 01:14:54.940 --> 01:14:58.940 at the upper end of the marsh to actually over top the bank and then get that 01:14:58.940 --> 01:15:02.940 marsh flowing. So one of the more successful projects we have out 01:15:02.940 --> 01:15:06.940 there is making a cut in the upper end of the marsh to allow water 01:15:06.940 --> 01:15:10.940 to flow through at lower water levels. Right now here today 01:15:10.940 --> 01:15:14.940 I believe the new London gauge is right around 9.7. That is above flood 01:15:14.940 --> 01:15:18.940 stage. We have very high water this year. So we actually did have a bank 01:15:18.940 --> 01:15:22.940 cut up there. I tried pointing out to you guys, but as of right now 01:15:22.940 --> 01:15:26.940 the water is just totally over topping the bank. So in a lower water year when that's 01:15:26.940 --> 01:15:30.940 the only spot the water can get through there, you can really go out there and see the water gushing 01:15:30.940 --> 01:15:34.940 through that cut there. And then you can see it feed through the entire marsh creating that desirable 01:15:34.940 --> 01:15:38.940 flow that we want. When we talk about the whole life cycle of wall, 01:15:38.940 --> 01:15:42.940 they come up here to spawn and when the fry hatch, like they're eventually 01:15:42.940 --> 01:15:46.940 going to float their way down, right? Yep. So the fish 01:15:46.940 --> 01:15:50.940 the eggs will develop over a period of 10 to 14 days on average. 01:15:50.940 --> 01:15:54.940 However, it can be prolonged from that. If there is colder water times, it's directly 01:15:54.940 --> 01:15:58.940 related to water times. The colder the longer it will take. And then 01:15:58.940 --> 01:16:02.940 after the fish hatch out, they're dependent on that water flow going through that 01:16:02.940 --> 01:16:06.940 marsh to basically facilitate what we call larval drift. The fish will 01:16:06.940 --> 01:16:10.940 basically hatch out and swim up fry. Very low ability to have 01:16:10.940 --> 01:16:14.940 any kind of locomotion. They can basically just flip their towel around and swim up into the current 01:16:14.940 --> 01:16:18.940 and get carried down. And then what they're trying to do there is let the current take them 01:16:18.940 --> 01:16:22.940 back into the Wolf River that will eventually take them back into Lake Puygan and 01:16:22.940 --> 01:16:26.940 the rest of the pool lakes where there's no plankton food source is much more abundant than 01:16:26.940 --> 01:16:30.940 up here on the Wolf River. And when it comes to the tagging that you're doing 01:16:30.940 --> 01:16:34.940 like you've got the mass figured out, like the number of people 01:16:34.940 --> 01:16:38.940 I turned that in to give you that population estimates, right? Yep. So 01:16:38.940 --> 01:16:42.940 there's kind of two main, I would say three main purposes of the survey up here. One 01:16:42.940 --> 01:16:46.940 we're up here checking out all the marsh conditions, getting ideas for potential future projects. 01:16:46.940 --> 01:16:50.940 So that's just kind of an overarching general thing we're doing the whole time. Another 01:16:50.940 --> 01:16:54.940 thing is just all of our basic biometric data. So we're taking 01:16:54.940 --> 01:16:58.940 Langson fish, sex obviously, and then we do take a male age sample. That's a good way to look 01:16:58.940 --> 01:17:02.940 at how our year classes documented in the trail survey actually get recruited 01:17:02.940 --> 01:17:06.940 to the adult spawning stock. And then lastly we have 01:17:06.940 --> 01:17:10.940 our tagging effort. So we have a goal of 1,000 female fish 01:17:10.940 --> 01:17:14.940 every single year. We'll usually encounter somewhere between 2 and 3,000 01:17:14.940 --> 01:17:18.940 miles along the way. The tagging on the system here has been done going back 01:17:18.940 --> 01:17:22.940 to 1993. So we have a very lengthy data set and we basically use those 01:17:22.940 --> 01:17:26.940 numbers. We have the amount of fish we have tagged, the 01:17:26.940 --> 01:17:30.940 number of fish that are returned by anglers, and then we also factor 01:17:30.940 --> 01:17:34.940 in tag loss and angler tag reporting rate in order to get 01:17:34.940 --> 01:17:38.940 an exploitation estimate on the system. So 01:17:38.940 --> 01:17:42.940 we did have a bag reduction on the system back in 2020. 01:17:42.940 --> 01:17:46.940 Went from a five daily bag to a three daily bag and 01:17:46.940 --> 01:17:50.940 an exploitation estimate that we get there is basically the primary way that we're evaluating 01:17:50.940 --> 01:17:54.940 what that bag reduction does to harvest on the system. 01:17:54.940 --> 01:17:58.940 Is the bag reduction more a result of poor reproduction or 01:17:58.940 --> 01:18:02.940 just so out of the pressure that it gets? The main 01:18:02.940 --> 01:18:06.940 motivation behind the bag reduction of 2020 was a 01:18:06.940 --> 01:18:10.940 further evaluation of angler tag reporting rates. We had previously 01:18:10.940 --> 01:18:14.940 estimated that 1 in 2 or you could say half of 01:18:14.940 --> 01:18:18.940 anglers that caught a tagged fish would actually return their tagged fish. 01:18:18.940 --> 01:18:22.940 We conducted a reward tag study and basically 01:18:22.940 --> 01:18:26.940 put a smaller number of tags out that are worth $100 01:18:26.940 --> 01:18:30.940 if an angler returns it. It's actually the same exact thing Green Bay is doing. I think you guys 01:18:30.940 --> 01:18:34.940 covered that as well. But from that effort we basically got a corrected 01:18:34.940 --> 01:18:38.940 tag reporting rate. You just compare the number of fish that are 01:18:38.940 --> 01:18:42.940 returned with the $100 rewards versus the non-reward 01:18:42.940 --> 01:18:46.940 every single year and just using that ratio there you can basically figure out 01:18:46.940 --> 01:18:50.940 how many people are actually returning their tags and we found that to be only 01:18:50.940 --> 01:18:54.940 1 in 3 people. So that dropped our tag reporting estimate down to 33% 01:18:54.940 --> 01:18:58.940 to from 50%. So basically making 01:18:58.940 --> 01:19:02.940 our exploitation estimates increase resulting in the motivation 01:19:02.940 --> 01:19:06.940 for the bag change. We like to see harvest stay below 35% on the system and 01:19:06.940 --> 01:19:10.940 ideally it would be below that. Below 20 would probably be better off 01:19:10.940 --> 01:19:14.940 but seeing those very high exploitation values was the main reason 01:19:14.940 --> 01:19:18.940 for the bag reduction. When you think about all the things that go 01:19:18.940 --> 01:19:22.940 into making this a successful fishery how important is it that 01:19:22.940 --> 01:19:26.940 you have so many volunteers you have so many groups raising money 01:19:26.940 --> 01:19:30.940 that people care and it's not just how many can I catch but that the whole 01:19:30.940 --> 01:19:34.940 system is thriving. Yeah there's a lot of passionate groups on the system 01:19:34.940 --> 01:19:38.940 we have a larger group that the DNR puts together it's called 01:19:38.940 --> 01:19:42.940 the Winnebago Fisheries Advisory Committee and it has anywhere from 01:19:42.940 --> 01:19:46.940 25 to probably closer to 30 now different fishing clubs and other organizations 01:19:46.940 --> 01:19:50.940 on the system we all get together we look at the data what the population current 01:19:50.940 --> 01:19:54.940 status is at and as of right now we have had a pretty lucky streak 01:19:54.940 --> 01:19:58.940 of production on the system that's what the system relies on you know we 01:19:58.940 --> 01:20:02.940 do have very high harvest but that being said we have very high exploitation 01:20:02.940 --> 01:20:06.940 so if we have a I guess you could say low or lack of production on the 01:20:06.940 --> 01:20:10.940 system for a number of years the amount of fish getting taken out isn't going down 01:20:10.940 --> 01:20:14.940 so you know the combination of low production and high exploitation that's the 01:20:14.940 --> 01:20:18.940 recipe for a crash and again as of now going back to 2016 we've had almost 01:20:18.940 --> 01:20:22.940 nothing but average to above average year classes show up with many notable 01:20:22.940 --> 01:20:26.940 near record year classes showing up in that time frame so that hasn't been too 01:20:26.940 --> 01:20:30.940 much call to action on the walleye population 01:20:30.940 --> 01:20:34.940 as of right now but you know we're always in communication with all those 01:20:34.940 --> 01:20:38.940 different groups out there another big thing with the groups is they actually help 01:20:38.940 --> 01:20:42.940 us conduct the work you know the management crew that covers one of bagels system 01:20:42.940 --> 01:20:46.940 all I management is a team of typically three people so you know utilizing 01:20:46.940 --> 01:20:50.940 not only volunteers we do have different DNR staff 01:20:50.940 --> 01:20:54.940 from different parts of the state help us out too 01:20:54.940 --> 01:20:58.940 but those volunteers play a huge role 01:20:58.940 --> 01:21:00.940 Thank you