Eggs??

[Hunter91]

Caught a few whites the other evening at Stockton. Out of 10 that I caught and cleaned 8 of them had eggs in them. Thought that is a little early to have them already. 
Anyone else see this lately?

[fishinwrench]

Congrats on getting into a school of females.  I've seen egg production in White bass as early as mid-September.    

Sometimes the egg sacks are chock full, so I think they start developing as early as July/August (basically within a month of their last spawn).  

[Dutch]

I haven’t cleaned today’s whites but last week I kept a walleye for the smoker.  She had eggs in her sac.  I’ll let you know on the Pom whites sometime tomorrow.

[stuartsx5]

We caught two limits Monday. No hybrids and no females. We usually do catch females with eggs this time of year though. 

[Terrierman]

I watched a young buck chase what I assume was an egg laden doe across the pasture out back earlier tonight if that counts for anything.🤓

[fishinwrench]

Yeah the deer eggs are everywhere around here.   I hope my buddy, Hightower makes it through the Winter.  I'd love to see what his headgear looks like next year.  

[straw hat]

Some species of fish can contain 1 to 3 years of eggs, at various stages of development, year round. After spawning the egg sacs may still contain thousands of very small eggs which will develop into mature eggs the following year.  Also, there is a small percentage of white bass,  crappie and trout that can produce mature eggs and even spawn in the fall. The numbers I have seen on research usually runs around 1%+/- for these species depending on the genetics of a local population. There is probably other species that fall in this category as well.

[Dutch]

Straw hat that helps explain what I just saw.  6 of the whites that I just cleaned were females with varied egg sacs.  They were also from different age groups.  Some were just sacs with no size to them.  Some were developing with veins showing.  One about 15 inches long had egg sacs that were a different color, almost red, with heavy veins.  The largest female had egg sacs that weren’t any larger than a pencil and very small veins.

[lmt-outfitters]

I cleaned several walleye with eggs over that last month.  The eggs sacks were about as big around as a pencil.

 

[fishinwrench]

Have y'all ever tried battering and frying those egg sacks?   

Yeah I didn't like it either. 

 My hound sure loves them raw though, and his farts after eating a dozen or so will peel the paint off the walls. 😂