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Originally Posted by NSR_RAT
Very useful information! Would you happen to have any of the same information on pike/walleye migration behaviour but for the North Saskatchewan river?
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This report is 10 years old but is still has interesting info on all of the reaches of the NSR and each reaches fish. Towards the bottom it has an interesting graph that has the months the various fish spawn in the NSR. What I find really interesting in this report is it mentions documented yellow perch being in reach 5 of the NS river.
http://www.nswa.ab.ca/sites/default/...inal%20_1_.pdf
My understanding is some fish do migrate downstream and some do overwinter. When I was talking with one of Alberta's biologist he mentioned a fish, a goldeye or walleye, with telemetry that swam many miles downstream in a short time period in fall. The Edmonton area reach (reach 5) of the NSR has some places suitable for overwintering. One area I know is 18 feet deep in low water so that area would hold a few walleye, sauger, pike and maybe even a sturgeon or three during the winter. There is another deep place downstream of Devon that would hold fish during winter. I have caught rocky mountain whites in the middle of winter right in Edmonton so some of them stick around too.