Fifty Grand Walleye

Fifty Grand Walleye

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
On Monday we learned you could win half a million bucks doing a crazy race to Hudson Bay way up in Canada and now I learned that there is $50,000 swimming in Lake Pend Oreille If the great taste of a walleye fillet isn't enough, anglers will now have added incentive to catch and keep walleye in Lake Pend Oreille and connected Idaho waters. Starting March 1, an experimental program launched by Idaho Fish and Game and Avista will offer a chance at cash rewards for anglers harvesting walleye.

Fifty walleye in Lake Pend Oreille, the Clark Fork River and the Pend Oreille River have been injected in the snout with a tiny, internal tag. These tags are invisible to anglers, but turning in heads from legally caught walleye offers anglers a chance at two types of cash rewards. Anglers will receive $1,000 for a head that is turned in from a tagged walleye. Additionally, every walleye head turned in enters anglers in the monthly drawing for ten cash prizes of $100 each. There is no bag limit on walleye in the Pend Oreille system. Walleye lottery gets anglers involved in new Fish and Game research program

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