Walleye Hatchery Visit - Constantia

[CNY Tim]

Tyler, Amanda and I had a great trip to the hatchery to help Amanda understand the walleye spawn and to get a nice lunch, afterwards we swung by Sylvan Beach for ice cream. Beautiful day out and I wish the pictures in the creek had came out better but because of the rippling water that wasn't the case. Here's some phot'os from our vist. Our two guides were Tom Pierce and Al Narewski. Tom I know from Fishin Phil and Al is retired Air Force.

Tyler and Amanda having lunch by the creek..

Note on the door..

Holding tank in the hatchery.

Amanda thought these were cool..

Amanda was looking for the tiger muskie, but it wasn't in there..

Walleye eggs in the tubes..

This was the only Natural eye picture I could take outside because there was some slack water where they store the net boats but you can see there are quite a few shadows below the water.

Our guides and the kids...

[Dark Cloud]

Timmy, heres some picts we took from our trip on wed when they were stripping eggs....

Heres a pict of the whole egg stripping and fin clipping opperation.

The guys in the back scoop out fish for the guys milking and squeezing eggs. The three guys in the middle are milking and egging and keeping the pot stirred. They put the fish when done down a tube to the two closer folks who clip a fin on each fish before putting em down another tube that goes into the raceway inder the hatchery that feeds back into the creek...

Heres a shot of the milking stripping stirring

Heres the fin clipping

And finally a sunset shot from the beach....

[CNY Tim]

Jay now that's an operation, to bad Tyler and Amanda missed that

But that final picture of the sunset that's priceless. Whatta shot!

[Thunderman]

Nice pics guys and you are right tim about the sun set.Jay thats a beautiful picture.I see alot of those during the year.I guess I have to break down now and buy a camera I need to be able to show some of this also seeing how im on the water so much.

[insurance guy]

Now that's something to see if you're a walleye fanatic and it looks like the kids had fun too!! That one picture looks like my livewell after a good night's trolling