Freshwater Fisheries Forum January 19:

[Lard Almighty]

I'm not sure introducing walleye into any large, deep lake is necessarily a good idea. The NYSDEC tried it in Lake Otsego many years ago, in an effort to reduce the alewife population (how they determined there were TOO MANY alewives is a mystery to me, but whatever). Well, they got their wish: the walleye decimated the alewives and fundamentally changed the fishery. Whereas the smallmouths used to move offshore and chase alewives in the fall, they now pretty much stay on the rockpiles all year and eat more crayfish. Fortunately that lake is stuffed with crayfish, so the bass population is still pretty healthy. As for the walleye, well with no alewives left they literally ate themselves out of house and home; not many left to be had in that lake.