Transition sector Félix Goulet guide and fisherman

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This time Félix Goulet, guide and professional fisherman, shows you how to catch walleye during their migration to summer areas.

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Sander vitreus according to WIKIPEDIA

The Walleye (Sander vitreus) is a species of large perch found in large bodies of water (rivers, lakes, etc.). It is gregarious and lucifugic. Native to northern North America and closely related to the European pike-perch, this fish has a vast distribution. It can be called a pike-perch¹ on the French market.

One subspecies, Stizostedion vitreum glaucum, now extinct, was gray to blue in color. Its size can be impressive, with a record 107 cm and a weight of 11.3 kg. More commonly, it reaches a maximum size of 75 cm for a mass of 7 kg. It is a voracious carnivore that can ingest prey representing a good fraction of its size.

This species breeds in spring in riverbeds. Male walleye usually reach sexual maturity at 2 to 4 years of age, at over 28 cm in length, and females at 35.6-43.2 cm, or at 3 to 6 years of age. After spawning, the females first leave the spawning site, to be followed a few weeks later by the males. Males are normally smaller than females, with no other apparent sexual dimorphism.

Walleye tolerates a wide range of environmental conditions, but seems to reach its greatest abundance in large, shallow, turbid lakes. The optimum transparency of a shallow lake to allow Walleye to feed during the day is around 1 to 2 m at the Secchi disk.

It is one of the two official fish of the state of Vermont, in the United States, the other being the brook trout.