The Walleye Egg Collection Just Wrapped Up! Will There Be Enough To Stock Montana?

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This week you host Downrigger Dale talks with Fort Peck Fisheries Biologist Heath Headley and Fort Peck Hatchery Manager Wade Geraets about how the annual Walleye egg collection effort went, which wrapped up not long ago. Rigger was also joined by a special guest that has not been on the Podcast for a while. Yeah, The Captain of the Montana Outdoor Radio Show came by and like usual when he and Rigger get together things tend to get "western" as they say. Yes indeed everyone had a great time, but they also got into some very interesting discussions full of a lot of fascinating questions that we are guessing you may not know the answers too but once you hear them you are going to be amazed, surprised and maybe even a bit shocked. This amazing discussion covered of course the usual topics, like how many Walleye eggs were collected but they also covered things like how the entire Walleye egg collection process works, of the eggs collected how many will actually produce Walleye and of those how many actually will end up in a lake near you and hopefully on your dinner plate? Rigger even got into some Jurassic Parkish type subject matter when he asked Heath and Wade if they think they will someday be able to alter those eggs to dictate the sex of the walleye in the egg and maybe even go as far as those scientists in Canada who recently created wolf pups with ancient Dire Wolf DNA and create a Mega Walleye! Yeah we told you it got "western"! Bottomline, this is an AMAZING Podcast! So what are you waiting for? Mash that play button and get to listening!

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• To learn even more about Walleye egg collection click here to watch an interesting video that features Heath, Wade and their amazing staff and volunteers collecting walleye eggs.
• You can learn more about the Fort Peck Hatchery by clicking here.
• Click here to learn more about the Fort Peck Reservoir. 
• Questions? Click here to send an email to Heath Headley.
• Click here to email Hatchery Manager Wade Geraets.
• Got a question for the Captain? Click here to email him.
• Your buddy Downrigger would love to hear your ideas for future podcasts. Click here to email him!

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