07-10-2013, 03:48 PM
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As you have already been advised, stripers reproduce just fine in fresh water...as long as there is a flowing tributary for them to go up in before they lay their eggs. The eggs have to drift for a couple of days before hatching...or they sink into the bottom mud and suffocate.
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Which is EXACTLY the theory that they would NOT reproduce here in the western US in our reservoirs. Lake Powell, for example, was thought to not support reproduction, because any stripers running the Colorado or San Juan would dump their eggs which would quickly be lost in the silt / mud.
guess what?
Stripers started spawning in the main channel, all the way down to the dam! They don't need a tributary all.
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As you have already been advised, stripers reproduce just fine in fresh water...as long as there is a flowing tributary for them to go up in before they lay their eggs. The eggs have to drift for a couple of days before hatching...or they sink into the bottom mud and suffocate.
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Which is EXACTLY the theory that they would NOT reproduce here in the western US in our reservoirs. Lake Powell, for example, was thought to not support reproduction, because any stripers running the Colorado or San Juan would dump their eggs which would quickly be lost in the silt / mud.
guess what?
Stripers started spawning in the main channel, all the way down to the dam! They don't need a tributary all.
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