NEW Available Now! Our new “GRANDDADDY BAIT COMPANY” Folk Art “Walleye-Keeper” is 14 1/8” Long This Walleye-“Keeper” sculpture makes a perfect gift for any angling enthusiast. Comes complete with hanger. Walleyes are the largest of the North American Perches. Originally the Walleye is native to the central portion of North America from the Rocky Mountain to the Appalachian Mountain chains, ranging as far south as Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama, and as far north as Great Slave Lake, the Mackenzie River and the Peace River in northwest Canada. Today stocking has made Walleyes available throughout the lower 48 states. Walleyes can live up to 15 years and can reach sizes of 15 pounds or larger in proper conditions. The walleye has a long slender body with a yellow-olive color with a brassy overcast on the sides. The tail fin has a white spot on the bottom edge. The eye is large and the mouth is filled with sharp canine teeth. Walleye spawn when water temperatures are between 40 and 55° F. Walleye are free spawners that deposit their eggs in the riffle areas of tributary streams or over gravel to boulder-sized rocks in reef areas. The eggs hatch in about 10 days. Females can lay as many as 400,000 eggs. Young walleye feed on zooplankton and insect larvae for most of the first year then shift to a diet of small fish. Adult walleye feed primarily during low-light periods, early morning, late evening and cloudy days are usually the best time for fishing Walleyes. Walleye prey primarily on shiners, minnows, bluegills, crappie, bullheads, and crayfish. Fishing for Walleye is most done using minnow type lures or jigs fished near the bottom over rock piles or along the edges of weed beds. Nightcrawlers and live minnows worked very slowly are also good producers. Walleye are considered to be one of the best tasting freshwater fish. The world record Walleye was caught in Old Hickory Lake, TN on August 2, 1960 and it weighted 25 pounds. This new line of Folk Art Fish is patterned after the highly collectable spearing decoys from the early 1900’s. Hand crafted and hand painted with exquisite detail from an original woodcarving by carver artist Jerry Eppel. ORDER NOW to insure you are one of the first to start your Folk Art Fish Collection