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Minnesota's State Fish

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty Professionals MN Broker #40288835

    If you ask most fishing people in the Brainerd Lakes area what their favorite fish to catch is, they will tell you the Walleye.  They make great eating and are good fighters on the end of a line. I am not much for fishing, but I agree on the eating part. Several area restaurants serve Walleye dinners.

  • Walleye are named for their big white eyes.
  • Adult walleye are 13 to 20 inches long.
  • Walleye weigh an average of 1 to 3 pounds, although some may weigh 10 pounds or more.
  • Walleye can live 10-20 years.
  • Walleye have sharp teeth. The two long ones in the front look like a dog's teeth.
 
 
 
 
 
  • The Minnesota State Fish is the Walleye.walleye
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Welcome from the Brainerd Lakes - where outdoor and indoor recreational opportunites abound. Looking to buy on one of our many lakes? Ready to move up or down?  Having trouble selling your home? 

Call me!

Kevin Obrien
M & M Mortgage LLC NMLS 213677 - Roseville, MN
NMLS 353991

It should be a great time of the year to start fishing for the Walleye!  I have been up on Mille lacs in September, great fishing

Sep 09, 2008 04:46 PM
Janice Sutton
1st Stage Property Transformations - Murrieta, CA
Home Stager - Temecula Murrieta

Thanks for the facts on Walleye's.  Question.....what do they taste like?  Chicken?  :)

Sep 10, 2008 04:40 AM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
Keller Williams Realty Professionals

Kevin - There are some big whitecaps on Mille Lacs right now -too choppy. Should calm down in a bit and then the fish will be biting.

Sep 10, 2008 02:58 PM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
Keller Williams Realty Professionals

Janice - not like chicken but not fishy like tuna either.

Just remember no mounted walleyes in staged houses  LOL.

Sep 10, 2008 03:02 PM
Janice Sutton
1st Stage Property Transformations - Murrieta, CA
Home Stager - Temecula Murrieta

Ha ha! Is that the singing mounted fish that you see in all the stores a Christmas?

Sep 11, 2008 08:12 AM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
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Janice - Did you actually buy one of those? Fess up girl.

 

Now I have to go take all of mine out of my inventory..................... but they sing Christmas songs, surely that would be ok,   festive, happy little fish with flapping tails................... I love them, please don't make me give them up...................Not Nemo, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sep 11, 2008 08:37 AM
Kristina Leone
Lionheart Home Staging, LLC - Minneapolis, MN

I'm not much of a fisher-woman, because I usually catch the size that pass for bait.

Sep 11, 2008 08:42 AM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
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Kristina - That is why they sell fish in the market. I am afraid the Texas people will have fish in their living rooms soon.

Sep 11, 2008 10:37 AM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
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Fish and the ocean water, that is.

Sep 11, 2008 10:37 AM
Frank D'Angelo
EXIT REALTY NEXUS Minneapolis & St. Paul MN - Coon Rapids, MN
Helping people is my business in Real Estate

As someone who spent forty years up in Canada, I can identify with the walleye and Minnesota.  I'll need to shorten my road trips up north and try your neck of the lakes for walleye.  For the past 15 years, I've been unable to buckle down and stay in MN for my walleye hunt.

Great Post thank you

Frank D'Angelo

Sep 21, 2008 04:11 PM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
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fRANK - Not that those trips up to Canada aren't fun (did a week long house boat rental on Rainy Lake once)

 but............    look at all the additional fishing time you would have closer to home!!!!

Sep 22, 2008 09:51 AM