Their eating habits are also similar. However, aquatic insects are a larger part of the sauger's diet and owing to their smaller size, the sauger consumes smaller fish than the walleye. As a food, they are the equal of walleyes. Distribution of saugers in NY state. Dark dots represent where actual samples of saugers were taken.
White dots represent historic distributions.
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