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    Finger Lakes Community College, Walleye Culture Facility, Muller Field Station, Honeoye Lake

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    Sorry for the lack of updates as I haven’t been down to the facility much.

    It’s safe to say our walleye run is done our last sample day yielded only one male walleye.

    Our eggs have been under development for about a week now, so far so good. However we are experiencing some saprolegnia fungus in our egg jars. We have been doing our best to keeping it out.

    Reminder, our open house is THIS Saturday. Come see what we are all about, and learn something’s about Walleye Culture, and see a full Electrofishing demonstration. Again THIS Saturday April 21st at 9:00am Electrofishing demonstration starts.Image1524012101.564058.jpg


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    Finger Lakes Community College, Walleye Culture Facility, Muller Field Station, Honeoye Lake

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    Sorry I haven’t been updating lately, other classes starting to get in the way for me not being able to get down to the culture facility. Will update tomorrow after we get done with tomorrow’s work.

    I can try and get past years data from my Fisheries Professor John Foust! We are seeing a very healthy year class of 2 and 3 year old fish. We will be aging fish from our scale samples which will give us a better understanding of the age classes in our adult population.

    We will have a lot of genetic diversity mainly because we are putting 25-30 males for every one batch of eggs. A lot of the females we have captured so far never produced eggs over the winter.

    Walleye populations specifically in Honeoye are dominated by males due to them being an r-selected species they produce a lot of offspring but the offspring is cheap and many don’t survive to sexual maturity. Having more males in the population especially in broadcast spawning fish species allows for better fertilization rates. Yes we are still holding males, hopefully with this warm up we get more females.

    And DEC has changed the size limit back to 18 under John Foust’s recommendation. We also believe that the reason why the male to female ratio is very spread apart is because females are more susceptible to creel, because they reach sexual maturity at age 3 at 18 inches so they reach the 15 inch mark much faster then males do. So having that 18 inch limit protects those fish at least for one spawning cycle.

    Again will give updates numbers tomorrow once we are done with sampling!


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    Finger Lakes Community College, Walleye Culture Facility, Muller Field Station, Honeoye Lake

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    Update:

    Walleye are still going strong today captured 29 fish again however all of them are males. We held a female for about a week because she was hard, today she was finally ready to go so we now have 3 egg jars going. We calculated the number of eggs in our second jar and we have around 165,000 eggs in that jar. In total around 545,000 eggs, that number will go up once we get a count on water hardened eggs in the 3rd jar. Hopefully this warm up next week will bring more fish in, and enhance egg development.Image1523212788.318716.jpg


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    Finger Lakes Community College, Walleye Culture Facility, Muller Field Station, Honeoye Lake

    in Walleye

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    Looks like these fish are killed to get the eggs and sperm. They look to be all belly up. Who gets to eat them? 


    Fish aren’t dead, all still alive, they’re just still in shock from being shocked. Their air bladder gets bloated when exposed to the voltage. Once they get their strength back it’s like nothing happened to them.


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    Finger Lakes Community College, Walleye Culture Facility, Muller Field Station, Honeoye Lake

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    Another successful day of sampling. Today our count was 73 walleye on one run, bringing our total to 191 walleye. I left in the middle of the work up of the fish so I don’t have new numbers on males and females. We will be dispatching 30 Fish tomorrow to send off to a lab in Maine for disease testing, do an Electrofishing run, and begin spawning tomorrow afternoon. I will post numbers of eggs tomorrow night.Image1522889903.366008.jpg


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    Finger Lakes Community College, Walleye Culture Facility, Muller Field Station, Honeoye Lake

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    Our walleye run has started, last Thursday was our start date for collecting brood stock. So far our numbers look great compared to recent years, here are the numbers.

    Thursday March 29th- total of 3 walleye all were males

    Friday March 30th- total of 2 walleye all were males

    Did not sample during the weekend or on Monday

    Today April 3rd- total of 113 walleye 102 males 11 females

    In total 118 walleye have been captured 107 males 11 females

    Just thought I’d share the numbers and some pictures with you guys, and also remind everyone April 21st is our field station open house where you can come down and see the culture facility in full operation!

    I will be posting again soon with updated numbers

    Thanks!IMG_2462.JPGIMG_2464.JPGIMG_2466.JPG


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    Finger Lakes Community College, Walleye Culture Facility, Muller Field Station, Honeoye Lake

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    Hey Everyone,

     

    Excited to announce that Finger Lakes Community College, Walleye Culture Facility, at our field station the Muller Field Station located on the South end of Honeoye Lake is in operation as of today. We will begin our Electrofishing runs two weeks from today and hopefully collect broodstock in order to artificially spawn the fish.

     

    This operation is an educational environment in our Fish Culture Techniques class, using a hands on approach, and following state protocol to spawn Walleye and contribute back to the Walleye fishery in Honeoye Lake.

     

    Walleye are a popular sportfish in New York State. Walleye were not originally found in Honeoye Lake, but ongoing stocking efforts which date back to the late 1800s propagated a population within the lake. Walleye are a spring time spawning fish. They need rock or gravel substrate to broadcast spawn their eggs. In the Honeoye inlet channel the substrate is mud and silt, eggs then land in the mud and do not survive causing a high mortality rate. With this partnership between the NYSDEC and Finger Lakes Community College we are able to bridge a critical gap between poor spawning habitat and high mortality by artificially spawning the walleye and allowing the eggs to survive and hatch in the culture facility.

     

    With all this being said our FLCC Muller Field Station open house is April 21st. During this day the public can come see first hand how the facility is operated, the spawning process, and an Electrofishing demonstration.

     

    This is also a great opportunity for visiting science classes to see the operation, and hopefully spark the interest of high school students to pursue a career in environmental conservation.

     

    I will be posting more as we come close to the open house date, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!Image1521155551.528772.jpg

     

     

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    88 212 Penn Yan Tournament

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    The boat is now out of storage and getting prepped to fish in Wilson NY during the spring derby May 5th-14th if interested please shoot me a PM and I'll give you both my dads and my number so we can schedule times to come look at the boat, take it out for a ride, or take it out trolling for a couple hours!

     

     

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    Finger Lakes Community College Open House

    in Open Lake Discussion

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    Tomorrow Saturday April 8th from 10am-1pm there will be an open house at FLCC's Muller Field Station. Free and open to the public. Come down and check out the Walleye Culture facility and have the opportunity to see an electro fishing demonstration, walleye being netted from the Honeoye Lake inlet, and walleye also being spawned in the facility! Come take a look at the next generation of walleye which will be stocked in both Honeoye and Conesus Lakes. Hope to see you there!

     

    Muller Field Station-FLCC 6455 W Lake Rd

    Honeoye, NY 14471

     

     

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    Sandy Creek 3/28/17

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    Cabin fever was shaken off today with our first troll on Lady O of the season, went out of Sandy and fished between the pump house and a little East of port, finished 12-14 on Browns, the 2 fish we missed were just short strikes, mainly cookie cutter fish but found a couple of studs! Had a double going at one point, first 20 minutes had 3 fish in, 10-15fow, water temp we guessed to be between 38-42, long lines between 70-80ft back, 50ft behind the boards, biggest brown came on a BayRat Green Goose 75 ft back, All in all amazing day!

     

     

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