Kokomo Reservoir among state waters with walleye successfully stocked across state this spring

This spring, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) completed its annual stocking of waterways with walleye and saugeye.

These fish are known for being excellent table fare and for the skill it takes to catch them.

Because these fish don’t reproduce naturally in most of Indiana, DNR spawns and stocks them.
 
Spawning operations from late March to early April, which are organized at Brookville Lake, resulted in 32.2 million fertilized walleye eggs. The eggs yielded 18.9 million walleye fry, 487,304 walleye fingerlings (average 1.4 inches), and 156,725 saugeye fingerlings (average 1.4 inches). Fry were stocked at the end of April, and walleye and saugeye fingerlings were stocked at the end of May. 

Additional walleye fingerlings are being grown in state hatcheries for fall stockings.
 
Stocked bodies of water, with their county in parentheses, include:

Walleye fry: Bass Lake (Starke), Brookville Lake (Franklin and Union), Monroe Lake (Brown and Monroe), Patoka Lake (Orange, Dubois, and Crawford), and Shafer Lake (White).

Walleye fingerlings: Cagles Mill Lake (Owen and Putnam), Fish Lake (LaGrange), Kokomo Reservoir (Howard), Lake of the Woods (Marshall), Pike Lake (Kosciusko), Prairie Creek Reservoir (Delaware), Shafer Lake (White), Summit Lake (Henry), and Tippecanoe River/Oakdale Dam (Carroll).

Saugeye fingerlings: Cedar Lake (Lake), Clare Lake (Huntington), Glenn Flint Lake (Putnam), Huntingburg Lake (Dubois), Koteewi Park Lake (Hamilton), and Sullivan Lake (Sullivan).

The statewide bag limit for walleye, sauger, and saugeye is six fish per day, in combination. For walleye, the minimum size limit is 14 inches for waters south of State Road 26 and 16 inches for waters north of State Road 26. Exceptions to the walleye size limit are Bass Lake (Starke) and Wolf Lake (Lake), where the minimum is 14 inches; Lake George (Steuben), where the minimum is 15 inches; and Wall Lake (LaGrange), where the minimum is 16 inches with a two fish daily bag limit. 

There is no size limit on sauger or saugeye, except at Huntingburg Lake (Dubois), Glenn Flint Lake (Putnam) and Sullivan Lake (Sullivan), and on the Ohio River, where the minimum size limit is 14 inches. Typically, walleye and saugeye will reach 14 inches after two years and 16 inches after three years.

Learn more about fishing for walleye and saugeye at on.IN.gov/walleye