Since it started production in 1996, it’s placed an estimated 50 million walleye and pike fry into the system.” “The DNR owns and runs the facility, but operating funds come from private donations by the Bark River Hatchery Partnership and other organizations.
“Spawning habitat for these fish is limited, so the system must be stocked with walleye and northern pike produced by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources at the Bark River Hatchery in Fort Atkinson, and other facilities,” he says. He describes walleye fishing on Koshkonong as “phenomenal,” but also explains that the fishery itself is delicate because it depends highly on stocking to supplement the limited natural reproduction that takes place. He and his partners guide anglers on Kosh, but more importantly, Walton’s lifetime of experience on the lake has given him a deep understanding of it and its walleyes, pike, crappies, white bass, and catfish. Walton, a fishing guide with Pike Pole Guide Service, grew up fishing on Koshkonong, and outside a stint in the military, has never lived more than a couple of miles from its shoreline. And despite all that, I’d say that it’s among the Top 10 walleye lakes in Wisconsin.” “It’s silty, doesn’t have many weeds and 80% of the bottom is mud or muck the rest is sand or gravel. “Koshkonong doesn’t get deeper than 7 feet,” says Team Northland member Adam Walton. While this area was, and still is, a haven for wild ducks and geese, and attracts waterfowl hunters from all over the country, it also supports a robust walleye fishery-though its features are the farthest thing from a classic walleye lake.
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The construction of the Indian Ford Dam, downstream from the lake, plus the intentional introduction of common carp by the federal government many years ago, is universally and equally blamed for the lake’s dramatic transition. Simply referred to as “Kosh” by the many anglers who ply its waters, Lake Koshkonong, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, has evolved from a lush, clear-water waterfowl marsh filled with wild rice, wild celery, and other desirable types of vegetation in the 1880s into what is today-a murky, shallow-water expanse on the Rock River.
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