Arkansas Hatcheries Help Walleye Angling Action

Arkansas hatcheries help walleye angling action

Early last week Jeff Newman and five other men were out on Lake Catherine late to gather up some walleye. The end goal wasn’t a fish fry, but to collect and fertilize eggs to spawn hundreds of thousands of these…

Arkansas hatcheries help walleye angling action • Arkansas Game & Fish Commission

HOT SPRINGS — Early last week Jeff Newman and five other men were out on Lake Catherine late to gather up some walleye. The end goal wasn’t a fish fry, but to collect and fertilize eggs to spawn hundreds of thousands of these native Arkansas fish for anglers in the southern half of the state. Newman is the hatchery manager at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Andrew H. Hulsey State Fish Hatchery on Lake Hamilton, and the five other men wer…