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Sunday, June 12 was the day for Walleye Fishing with Dave Holte on the Missouri River in North Dakota. Dave picked me up at my hotel at about 8:00 am we proceeded to the launch site some 20 odd miles south of Bismarck, as soon as the boat was away from the ramp

Dave had my lines rigged and we were trolling for Walleye. Shortly I made the call of "Fish On" and I was reeling in my very first Walleye. If you don't know Walleye are a very fine eating fish, but their fight only lasts about 15 to 20 seconds. My 1st "Wally" weighed in at about 2 1/2 pounds, the perfect "eating size" according to Dave. It was a long day of trolling, bottom fishing and drifting, we didn't get our limit of 5 per fisherman nor did we challenge the world record of 25 pounds, but I had a great time and I am looking forward to another day on the Missouri with Dave Holte before I depart North Dakota for warmer climes.

Walleye (Sander vitreus, formerly Stizostedion vitreum) is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European pikeperch. The walleye is sometimes also called the yellow walleye to distinguish it from the blue walleye, which is an extinct subspecies formerly found in the southern Great Lakes.

In some parts of its range, the walleye is mistakenly known as the colored pike, yellow pike or pickerel (esp. in English-speaking Canada), although the fish is related neither to the pikes nor to the other pickerels, both of which are members of the family Esocidae.

Genetically, walleyes show a fair amount of variation across watersheds. In general, fish within a watershed are quite similar and are genetically distinct from those of nearby watersheds. The species has been artificially propagated for over a century and has been planted on top of existing populations or introduced into waters naturally devoid of the species, sometimes reducing the overall genetic distinctiveness of populations.

MORE WALLEYE, This time at night .... ...., well not many more but we had a great time.

Paul and Justin picked up Larry O'Steen and me at 4 pm and we headed north to Devil's Lake, arriving about 7pm we set up our fishing site on the shoulder of the road between the pavement and the boulders, since the rise of Devil's (Spirit lake for the Lakota Souix) Lake, the state has place large boulders at the edge of the lake to protect the road from the wave action.

FISHING SITE - ROD HOLDER - LARRY 1st FISH A NORTHERN - BAIT EM UP - FISHING IS HARD WORK - JUSTIN - LARRY n WALLEYE

AS THE SUN SETS AND THE MOON COMES OUT THE FISHING CONTINUES, BUT IS DOES NOT IMPROVE, TOTAL 4 SMALL WALLEYE AND A NORTHERN PIKE WHO WENT BACK TO BE CAUGHT ANOTHER DAY.