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Walleye Traditional Cache

Hidden : 4/9/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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All trails lead to Dauphin

Ochre River to Dauphin 

 

All trails lead to Dauphin this summer for GC59ZQW Country Legends 2015 (WestCan5).  A series of trails has been created to connect some of the main highways in Manitoba that pass thru Dauphin.


This is what you can expect on this trail:  The caches are approximately placed 2 to 4 miles apart and are usually no more than 500 feet from the highway. Cache containers are micros and larger.  There will be a mix of container types and some will be winter friendly and some won't. For this reason there won't be a winter attribute at all because of snow levels on the sides of the roads in the winter will vary.  Some of the caches will require you to walk thru ditches so depending on time of year and water levels rubber boots might be a good idea.

Fishing is a big part of Manitoba so we will be naming the caches on this leg of the trail after fish species that can be found here.

Walleye:

Walleye (Sander vitreus, formerly Stizostedion vitreum) is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European pikeperch. The walleye is sometimes called the yellow walleye to distinguish it from the blue walleye, which is a subspecies that can be found in the southern Ontario and Quebec regions.In some parts of its range, the walleye is known as the walleyed pikecolored pikeyellow pike or pickerel (esp. in English-speaking Canada), although the fish is not related to other species of pikes which are members of the family Esocidae.  Walleyes show a fair amount of variation across watersheds. In general, fish within a watershed are quite similar and are genetically distinct from those of nearby watersheds. The species has been artificially propagated for over a century and has been planted on top of existing populations or introduced into waters naturally devoid of the species, sometimes reducing the overall genetic distinctiveness of populations.

 

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