Billings Gazette

Montana Outdoors: Fort Peck reels in walleye spawn

What a difference a year makes on the Big Dry Arm of Fort Peck Reservoir. In the early weeks of May last year, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks was struggling to try to reach its egg goal in the ...
Billings Gazette

Montana Outdoors: Walleye netting on Fort Peck, Canyon Ferry

The ice is gone and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks' walleye work has begun on both Fort Peck and Canyon Ferry reservoirs. On Fort Peck, it's the annual spawn where FWP crews and volunteers are ...
Missoulian

Ice block: Fort Peck walleye egg collection drops

Late ice-out at Fort Peck Reservoir this spring meant Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks crews collected only about half of their target number of walleye eggs. "For the record, this was the latest we’ve ...
The Montana Standard

Fort Peck walleye capture nets 81 million eggs

A total of 2,261 walleye were captured in trap nets set by Fish, Wildlife and Parks staff with the help of volunteers this spring on Fort Peck Reservoir, with approximately 81 million eggs collected. ...