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Fall Musky Stocking
Underway in State
Fall releases of muskellunge reared at the Game Commission's King and Queen Fish Cultural Station began in mid September and should be com pleted in 3 or 4 weeks, according to Fish Division Chief R. G. Martin. Releases this year will total about 5,500 of the young muskies by the time the current stocking schedule is completed.
As part of an experiment to determine the most desirable size muskies for stocking, over 1,000 were stocked in late July and early August in the South Fork of the Shenandoah, Lake Nelson, Lake Shenandoah and Lake Brittle. They averaged about 3 inches in length at that time. The Shenandoah received 400, and each of the three state-owned lakes were stocked at the rate of 5 per acre. These lakes received a subsequent stocking of marked muskies averaging over 8 inches in September. The difference in recovery rates between the marked and unmarked fish should give a good Indication of the relative survival rates of the two sizes Of the fish to be stocked later this month, Smith Mountain Lake is scheduled to get the lion’s share of over 3,000. The James River between Columbia and Irwin will receive 300 and streams in Southwest Virginia will receive several hundred. One hundred-fifty are scheduled to go into Mariner’s Museum Lake, and a lake at Camp Peary will receive 60. These lakes are stocked to test the ability of the muskies to adapt to such small bodies of water and to waters in the Tidewater section of the state. An unknown but relatively large number of the original 6,840 (mostly 3 inch) fish stocked in Smith Mountain Rea ervoir in 1964 have been recovered by anglers this summer. Sub-legal size muskies have been caught from the James and Shenandoah Rivers, and the Shenandoah produced its first keeper, a 7 pounder, in late August. Legal specimens were also taken from Lake Brittle and Lake Shenandoah this summer. Judging by past growth records, the fish stocked this fall should reach the Wigal 26 inch minimum, in the spring or summer of 1968.
Even back in the Stone Age when women wrote down their ages they were chiseling.
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