walleye food

[dirtking]

A friend of mine is asking me what to feed his walleyes. The DNR put some fingerlings in his pond for letting them access a private lake to rear walleyes in. So my bud is worried there is no food in his small pond since he just dug it about 3 years ago. I told him just to buy a few scoops of crappie minnows and throw them in - what do you all think he should feed them?

[Team Otter]

A steady of diet of crappie and fathead minnows and leeches should be suffice.

[fishinchicks]

Walleye are piscivores (fish-eaters) and will eat any species of fish they can catch and swallow. Yellow perch and many species of minnows and darters are their most common food. Larval and young juvenile walleye consume copepods, waterfleas, and small insect larvae, but quickly add larval fish to their diets.

Courtesy of the Minnesota Fishes HSOforum

[ratso]

fishinchicks were insw mn are you from???

[Dano_the_jigasaurus]

small sunfish are a great forage we have a couple of private ponds around our area that have been legally stocked and the main forage is crappie minnows and sunnies.

[PERCHJR]

Usually the minnow on my jig!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[Tony Boshold]

I think the DNR that put the fish in his pond should have the best answer for feeding them too. That's what I'd do. They should have the best answer for managing the pond.

[fishinchicks]

ratso-

Cottonwood, north of Marshall.