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Walleye: twelve scenarios, run through the model
Low-light specialist, tapetum lucidum. Deliberate rather than aggressive — dislikes a frantic action.
- Optimum
- 20 °C
- Feeds between
- 2–27 °C
- Prey window
- 50–150 mm
- Wants wobble
- 1–4
- Reaction distance
- 1.6 m
- Aggression
- 0.45
- Scenarios
- 12
- Something eaten in
- 2 / 12
The scenario grid
Temperature bands sit on this species' own curve: cold is 7 °C, near optimum is 20 °C, too warm is 24 °C. Each cell links to the full ranking and names the top lure, or how far the best one got if nothing was eaten.
| Temperature | clear · neutral fish | clear · post-front | muddy · neutral fish | muddy · post-front |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold water7 °C | Best: medium diverrefused, nothing eaten | Best: medium diverrefused, nothing eaten | Best: deep diverfollowed, nothing eaten | Best: deep diverignored, nothing eaten |
| Near optimum20 °C | Medium diver6 of 11 eaten | Best: medium diverrefused, nothing eaten | Best: medium diverrefused, nothing eaten | Best: medium diverfollowed, nothing eaten |
| Too warm24 °C | Medium diver3 of 11 eaten | Best: medium diverrefused, nothing eaten | Best: medium diverrefused, nothing eaten | Best: square-billfollowed, nothing eaten |
Which archetypes the model favours for walleye
Across all twelve scenarios, these are the archetypes that got eaten at least once.
Medium-diving crankbait
eaten in 2 of 12 scenarios · ranked first in 2Flat-sided crankbait
eaten in 2 of 12 scenarios · ranked first in 0Jerkbait (floating)
eaten in 2 of 12 scenarios · ranked first in 0Square-bill crankbait
eaten in 1 of 12 scenarios · ranked first in 0Small trout minnow
eaten in 1 of 12 scenarios · ranked first in 0Big pike bait
eaten in 1 of 12 scenarios · ranked first in 0Other species
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Species values are working assumptions, not calibrated field measurements. See where this model is wrong.