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The walleye is a cool-water species that prefers turbid waters in either large, shallow lakes or rivers, provided they are deep orturbid enough to give shelter in daylight. As their eyes are very sensitive to bright light, walleye often use sunken trees, boulders, weed beds, or thick layers of ice and snow as a shield from the sun. In more turbid water, walleye are more active during the day. Walleye spawn in the spring or early summer, depending on latitude and water temperature. Adults migrate to the rocky areas in white water below impassable falls and dams in rivers, or boulder to coarse-gravel shoals of lakes. Spawning takes place at night and the eggs fall into crevices in the rocky substrate. The eggs hatch in 12 - 18 days and by 10 - 15 days after hatching, the young disperse into the upper levels of open water.
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