Thanks everyone for your responses. They've backed up what the retired biologists and the Wabamun Watershed Management Council has been hearing for many years.
Drewski Canuck: I shared your comment about river vs. shoal spawning walleye with the retired fisheries biologists, and they said they had heard of this before, but don't believe it's a genetic thing (passed down the generations) but a learned thing (not confirmed by any research). In other words, that might be affecting mature fish transferred from one lake to another, but it shouldn't affect the millions of 1 cm, hatchery-raised fry that were stocked in Wabamun from 2010 to 2014. They do believe that Wabamun has very few spawning areas for walleye available. Lots of unknowns.
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