“The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped in the music of St. James’s Hall I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down.”
Dr. John Watson, from “The Red Headed League”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891
In 1993, in the absence of any walleye stocking in any of the locations, the walleye winked into existence simultaneously in the Colorado River in Texas, Deep Creek Lake in Maryland, Lake Erie in Ohio, and the Delaware River in New Jersey. It would remain in existence in all of those locations only briefly. In 1993, or soon after, the walleye disappeared simultaneously from the Colorado River in Texas, Deep Creek Lake in Maryland and the Delaware River in New Jersey, and remains absent from all three of those locations to this day. It reappeared in Lake Erie in 1993 after an absence of six years, disappeared shortly thereafter, remained absent for another twelve years, then winked back into existence in Lake Erie in 2021, and I believe exists there to this day. However I have no examples from 2021 to present, so the the jury is still out on that.
The USGS table for the walleye omits the first-ever Ohio state record walleye from 1993, the first-ever Maryland state record walleye, also from 1993, and the first-ever New Jersey state record walleye from 1993. Why?
In 1993, in the absence of any walleye stocking there, the walleye winked into existence in the Colorado River in Texas, above the confluence of the Green River. It would remain in existence there only briefly. In 1993, or soon after, the walleye disappeared from the Colorado River in Texas, and remains absent to this day.
Despite the fact that there has never been any walleye stocking in the Colorado River in Texas, and, further despite the fact that this is the only example of the walleye there on record, the USGS nevertheless brazenly states that the walleye was “established” there in 1993, with a potential pathway of “stocked for sport”.
The fact that there has never been any walleye stocking in the Colorado River in Texas proves that the USGS’s assertion that stocking was the source of the single walleye collected there in 1993 is false.
The USGS map for the walleye shows that the walleye is non-indigenous to Texas. Well, if that’s true, then how could the walleye be present in the Colorado River in Texas in the absence of any walleye stocking there?
The fact that there has never been any walleye stocking in the Colorado River in Texas proves that the USGS’s assertion that the walleye is non-indigenous to Texas is false.
In 1993, in the absence of any walleye stocking there, the walleye winked into existence in Deep Creek Lake in Maryland. It was the first-ever Maryland state record, and weighed 11 pounds, 6 ounces and was thirty inches long. The USGS table for the species omits the Maryland state record walleye from 1993. It would remain in existence there only briefly. In 1993, or soon after, the walleye disappeared from Deep Creek Lake in Maryland. In 1998, after an absence of five years, the walleye winked back into existence in Deep Creek Lake at a state record weight of 14 pounds, 4 ounces, which was 25.3% larger than the 11 pounds, 6 ounces at which it had last manifested there in 1993. The USGS table for the species omits the Maryland state record walleye from both 1993 and 1998. It would once again remain in existence in Deep Lake only briefly. In 1998, or soon after, the walleye once again disappeared from Deep Creek Lake. In 2017, after an absence of 24 years, the walleye winked back into existence in Deep Creek Lake. It would yet again remain in existence only briefly. In 2017, or soon after, the walleye disappeared from Deep Creek Lake, and remains absent to this day.
The USGS table omits the first-ever Maryland state record walleye from 1993. Why?
The USGS map for the walleye shows that the walleye is non-indigenous to Maryland. Well, if that’s true, then how could the Maryland state record walleye be present in Deep Lake in Maryland in the absence of any walleye stocking there?
The fact that there has never been any walleye stocking in Deep Lake in Maryland proves that the USGS’s assertion that the walleye is non-indigenous to Maryland is false.
Now you are beginning to get an idea as to why the USGS omitted the 1993 Maryland state record walleye from their table on the walleye in Maryland.
In 1993, the walleye winked into existence in Lake Erie in Ohio. It was the first-ever Ohio state record walleye, and weighed 15.95 pounds. It would remain in existence there only briefly. In 1993, or soon after, the walleye disappeared from Lake Erie, and would remain absent for six years, until it winked back into existence there in 1999 at a state-record 16.91 pounds, which was 6% greater than the 15.95 pounds at which it had last manifested there in 1993. It would once again remain in existence in Lake Erie only briefly. In 1999, or soon after, the walleye disappeared from Lake Erie. It would remain absent for twelve years, until it winked back into existence there in 2011 at some weight obfuscated by fishermap.org. There are examples of the walleye in Lake Erie all the way to 2021. (Research walleye in Lake Erie 2021 to present).
The USGS table for the walleye in Ohio omits 56, or 95% of the 59 examples of the walleye in Ohio in this study, namely each and every example of the walleye in or near Lake Erie. That’s quite a media blackout, don’t you think? Especially for a species which the USGS asserts is indigenous to Ohio.
It sure does make them look bad, though, when someone such as myself points it out, doesn’t it?
In 1993, in the absence of any walleye stocking there, the walleye winked into existence in the Delaware River in New Jersey. It was the first-ever (and only) New Jersey state record walleye. It weighed 13 pounds, 9 ounces. It would remain in existence there only briefly. In 1993, or soon after, after less than a year in existence there, the walleye disappeared from the Delaware River in New Jersey, and remains absent to this day.
In 1993, the walleye disappeared simultaneously from the Colorado River in Texas, Deep Creek Lake in Maryland, the Delaware River in New Jersey, and Lake Erie in Ohio. It remains absent from the Colorado River and the Delaware River to this day. It reappeared in Deep Creek Lake briefly in 1998 and 2017, then disappeared, and remains absent to this day. It reappeared briefly in Lake Erie in 1999, disappeared again, was absent for twelve years, then reappeared in 2011, and was documented there through 2021. I’m still researching 2021 to present.
In 1999, the walleye winked into existence simultaneously in Montana in Placid Lake, Salmon Lake, Prickly Pear Creek, and back into existence in the Tiber Reservoir after a ten-year absence; in Connecticut in Lake Saltonstall on the Quinnipiac River, in Squantz Pond on the Housatonic drainage, and back into existence for the first time in thirteen years in the Connecticut River, this time in Rogers Lake; and back into existence for the first time in six years in Lake Erie in Ohio.
The USGS table for the walleye omits the Ohio state record walleye from 1999. Why?
In 1999, or soon after, after less than a year in existence in each location, the walleye disappeared simultaneously in Montana from Placid Lake, Salmon Lake, Prickly Pear Creek, and the Tiber Reservoir; in Connecticut from Rogers Lake, Lake Saltonstall, and Squantz Pond; and in Ohio in Lake Erie.
In 2011, the walleye winked into existence simultaneously in Montana in the Upper Noxon Reservoir, Redwater River, Milk River and upper Missouri River, and in Ohio in the Hocking River, and winked back into existence simultaneously in the Flatwillow Reservoir in Montana after an absence of fourteen years; in the lower Goose Creek/Oakley Reservoir in Idaho after an absence of two years; and in Lake Erie after an absence of twelve years.
In 2011, the walleye disappeared simultaneously from Montana’s Big Horn Lake on the Big Horn River, Upper Noxon Reservoir on the Clark Fork River, Flatwillow Reservoir on the Elk Creek, the lower Musselshell drainage, the Yellowstone River, the Fort Peck drainage cuts, the Redwater River, the Milk River, Bailey River, and the Upper Missouri River, and remains absent from all of those locales to this day; it also disappeared from the lower Goose Creek/Oakley Reservoir in Idaho, and remains absent to this day; it also disappeared from the Hocking River in Ohio, and remains absent to this day.
Jeff Miller, Libertyville, Illinois, August 17, 2023
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