Thames River Walleye question
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I think at least to the Londontown... Fanshawe Dam on the North Fork... there is another smaller damn on the South Fork near Labatt's at Richmond.. Hunt Dam... I think there is a fishway there that allow walleye continue to move upstream on the South Fork.
See https://www.researchgate.net/profil...cf30b7ebb4/INTRODUCTION-TO-FISHWAY-DESIGN.pdf for details about the fishway .
See https://www.researchgate.net/profil...cf30b7ebb4/INTRODUCTION-TO-FISHWAY-DESIGN.pdf for details about the fishway .
No fishway at Labatts. Its the end of the line for 'Eyes on the south branch. A few Trout and Salmon do get over the dam in high water and make it as far as Thamesford, maybe even further...
Josh
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Thanks @Josh Roelofsen. I guess the fishway never made it past the proposal stage.
Walter Fishonn
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I have caught them below fanshawe damn in the past. So they at least go that far. Was considering going down to big bend in wardsville in a few weeks to try my luck as not looking great for local ice so far this year. Even if all I get is a stickeral it will still be something to do.
End of the migration line at Fanshawe Dam also...though there are resident walleye in Fanshawe Lake that do move further upstream.
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Hunny -Du
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I have lived in the vicinity of the Thames River pretty much all my life . I have caught walleye at Fanshaw dam many years ago , but in all my years of fishing that river I have yet to see or catch any walleye on the up stream side of Fanshaw dam. Pike yews but not walleye
Hunny -Du
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Yes sir they do and right up to Fanshaw dam
No idea what a pike-yew is. For sure, walleye in Fanshawe Lake. You've just not caught em, is all.
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Hunny -Du
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LOL Typo on my part, should say Pike yeslol
Woodsman
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Highly unlikely that any eyes would get over the Thamesford dam.
Definitely eyes in the Thames north of London up to St. Marys.
Years back adults were stocked in the Thames at Plover Mills Rd.
Not sure if it's still being done.
This is how they are in Fanshawe.
@King Joe I agree & I personally have had luck for many year’s now catching walleye’s above Fanshawe Lake,(a couple of older photo’s),wether it would be out of a kayak,
or a motor boat,(under 9.9 h.p. outboard motor restriction on Fanshawe Lake),or even offshore while casting lure’s & jig head’s with twister tails of various colours.While fishing off shore on one of my trip’s on Fanshawe Lake last November,2020 for bass 
before the bass season closed,I was catching quite a few very small walleye’s, (released of course). I am now looking forward to 
ice fishing on Fanshawe Lake this year like in some of the previous year’s,
if the ice is safe,and & hopefully Walleye’s ON!! 
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Walleye definitely get all the way up to Fanshawe Dam but I've never seen pickerel get that far. 
Probably wasn't fishing near the wall... need to be close to the wall to catch walleye.
Wow that's incredible! I've been fishing the Great Lakes since well before you were born I have never even come close to catching a limit of pickerel, ever.When I told him I was trolling for walleye out of Port Stanley and catching our limits. He asked “what’s that?” I responded “Pickerel”
wildeye rainbow
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It hasn't been done for a long while. The Thames River Anglers Association also ran a walleye hatchery at Fanshawe for a few years.
So the walleyes are doing fine as are the pickeral.
WR
@Wave Runner i wonder if he tastes good lol
Funny tho when I said Pickerel I don’t think that’s what he was thinking of!
Funny tho when I said Pickerel I don’t think that’s what he was thinking of!