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Originally Posted by duffy4
Most hybirds are not fertile and so they do not reproduce. The big saugeye you caught would have been a good one to eat. It is most likely not going to spawn and add to the population of sauger or walleye. It is just a fish living in the river and eating stuff and occupying a spot that a walleye or sauger could be in. I'm sure that Fisheries Management would have no problem with any harvest of saugeyes.
Robin in Rocky
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This is not really true, a lot of naturally occuring hybrids can and do reproduce. I bet if you did genetics work on walleye and sauger in the river, you would find that a lot of the sauger have a bit of walleye in them...hence why the a lot of the sauger records are so big....