Big Walleye

[powerdive]

Then again...you see it in Canada too. For walleyes, there are "big fish lakes" and "numbers lakes"...don't really know why.

Here, we have more info to work with. Stockton has the food base to support all sizes, and you don't hear of any die-offs, so the water's good. I really don't think genetics has anything to do with it, because there ARE some double-digit fish caught every year. It's not about the lake not being able to produce large walleyes, it's a question of why more aren't caught. 90% of it has to be due to the put-n-take management style + fishing pressure.

[Bill B.]

Fellows Lake, upstream from Stockton, has tiger muskie. The occasional fish undoubtedly gets out and makes its way to Stockton.

There are probably a few tiger muskie (and hybrid stripers, yellow perch, etc.) in every major lake in the state, now. I say that because tigers are fairly popular for stocking in farm ponds. Commercial fish hatcheries in Missouri sell them in the fall every year. When heavy rains come, out of the ponds they go. Whatever lies downstream gets stocked with exotics. I'll bet a lot of exotics washed downstream this last week in north Missouri.

[Moflash]

Fished Stocton lake 30 plus years.I side hooked a large gar in the early eighties by Aldrich bridge got off at the boat but left a scale on my hook the size of a silver dollar.My uncle who is not a avid fisherman caught a walleye in 1980 that measured 42 inches fishing around the island in the main lake for crappie.I did not beleive him when he told me the story so he went in the drawer and pulled out a picture of the fish next to a yard stick.And yes it was 42.He cooked the fish and said it fed 6 people and had some left over. I have read that the first 10 years that a new reservour is open the nutrents in the lake produce monsters then it tapers off.Same thing is true for the record walleye out of Greers Ferry lake in AR.It was caught within the first ten years of the lake openinig.

[luckycraft]

Fellows Lake, upstream from Stockton, has tiger muskie. The occasional fish undoubtedly gets out and makes its way to Stockton.

There are probably a few tiger muskie (and hybrid stripers, yellow perch, etc.) in every major lake in the state, now. I say that because tigers are fairly popular for stocking in farm ponds. Commercial fish hatcheries in Missouri sell them in the fall every year. When heavy rains come, out of the ponds they go. Whatever lies downstream gets stocked with exotics. I'll bet a lot of exotics washed downstream this last week in north Missouri.

It is my understanding that Fellows Lake is produced by water pumped from stockton lake. You can clearly see the pump house and pipe line heading to fellows from stockton. Would highly doubt that a muskey would swim through the pipeline, or over the dam. Correct me if I am wrong, I could be way off on this but just my oppinon

[ddhlakebound]

It is my understanding that Fellows Lake is produced by water pumped from stockton lake. You can clearly see the pump house and pipe line heading to fellows from stockton. Would highly doubt that a muskey would swim through the pipeline, or over the dam. Correct me if I am wrong, I could be way off on this but just my oppinon

It's possible.....Fellows lake has a spillway, which is the beginning of the Little Sac river, and flows into McDaniels, which also has a spillway. Fish go over the dam and into the rivers more than you'd guess during heavy flows. From there it's a 30ish mile trip through the little sac unobstructed into Stockton. Water is pumped into Fellows from Stockton, but Fellows was there long before the pipeline was, and has it's own drainage. Fellows being "produced" by Stockton's water isn't terribly accurate.

[Flysmallie]

That's true. Fellows has been there a lot longer than that intake pipe. And that intake has been functional maybe 50% of the time. It's only there to add water to Fellows in low water since it is the major water source for Springfield.

[crankdragger]

All this talk about Stockton and Bull no mentions about Table Rock. The two biggest walleye I've caught have come out of Table Rock. 8 1/2 and 10.

[powerdive]

All this talk about Stockton and Bull no mentions about Table Rock. The two biggest walleye I've caught have come out of Table Rock. 8 1/2 and 10.

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[bfishn]

All this talk about Stockton and Bull no mentions about Table Rock. The two biggest walleye I've caught have come out of Table Rock. 8 1/2 and 10.

Days gone by. Used to be. Nothing to see there now. Bass ate all the big shad. Move along. Beaver's next on deck for big 'eyes. Then somebody will spew about the monster 'eyes in Beaver and it's back to Bull.