October and Migration Sitings Continue

A visit on Tuesday to the Muskie Rearing Ponds at the MNDNR Aquatic Management Area along the Burntside River found the Area Fisheries staff removing the last of the muskie fingerlings.

They were walking the pond with the last of the outflow to the rivers and collecting the remaining fish. This involved a little competition with a few gulls that wanted in on the fish gathering action.

The staff shared the next steps of implanting some tags that would be implanted in fish. The tags mark these fish and can be read during surveys or when anglers catch fish. That information provides outcomes from stocking and survival in Lake Vermilion any other stocked lake.