## 2 Materials and Methods
Prior individual fish locations were evaluated in the field, and when no movement occurred for a given fish between three or more tracking events and the radio tag would not move when disturbed or was recovered, the fish was considered dead. In these instances, the data were reviewed to determine the fish's last live location [34]. Due to the high detection rates observed in this study, survival was simply expressed using the percentage of fish known to survive during the duration of the study. Dispersal and movement--Individual Muskellunge dispersal was calculated for the first 25 days poststocking (DPS). Only data collected within the first 25 DPS were used for dispersal analysis because most Muskellunge poststocking mortality occurs within this period [29]. Dispersal was defined as the minimum straight-line, in-water distance (m) between the stocking site and the fish's location during each tracking event. Since fish stocked at Spirit Lake were not stocked at a single location, individual fish dispersal was calculated as the minimum distance (m) from the fish's location to the nearest point of the stocking transect (Figure 1). Dispersal data for known alive fish were pooled by lake and DPS (11 tracking events at Spirit Lake; 5 tracking events at Lake Cornelia). Daily movement rates (m day\({}^{-1}\)) for individual fish were calculated by dividing the minimum in-water, straight-line distance traversed between tracking events by the number of lapsed days. If the number of lapsed days between two consecutive individual fish detections was \(\geq\)14 days or the fish was determined to be dead, daily movement rates were excluded \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Lake**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\begin{tabular}{c} **Radio Tag** \\ **Frequency (MHz)** \\ \end{tabular} } & \multirow{2}{*}{**TL (mm)**} & \multirow{2}{*}{**Wt (g)**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\begin{tabular}{c} **Total** \\ **Detections** \\ \end{tabular} } & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\
\begin{tabular}{c} **N Days** \\ **Known to Survive** \\ \end{tabular} } & \multicolumn{1}{c}{
\begin{tabular}{c} **Fate by** \\ **8 September 2023** \\ \end{tabular} } \\ \hline Spirit & 8.011 & 433 & 438 & 15 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.020 & 403 & 346 & 21 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.030 & 432 & 412 & 19 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.040 & 436 & 440 & 15 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.052 & 445 & 478 & 22 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.060 & 430 & 426 & 16 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.071 & 409 & 374 & 7 & 12 & Dead \\  & 8.081 & 409 & 400 & 19 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.090 & 407 & 368 & 19 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.102 & 421 & 384 & 13 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.111 & 425 & 424 & 13 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.122 & 400 & 360 & 20 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.131 & 397 & 390 & 16 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.141 & 422 & 358 & 17 & 112 & Alive \\  & 8.152 & 375 & 310 & 13 & 101 & Dead \\ \hline Cornelia & 9.211 & 400 & 326 & 17 & 111 & Alive \\  & 9.243 & 437 & 402 & 17 & 111 & Alive \\  & 9.272 & 429 & 538 & 17 & 111 & Alive \\  & 9.291 & 408 & 390 & 17 & 111 & Alive \\  & 9.312 & 410 & 404 & 17 & 111 & Alive \\  & 9.332 & 431 & 462 & 3 & 11 & Dead \\  & 9.352 & 425 & 424 & 17 & 111 & Alive \\  & 9.363 & 427 & 422 & 17 & 111 & Alive \\  & 9.373 & 396 & 430 & 17 & 111 & Alive \\  & 9.383 & 441 & 496 & 17 & 111 & Alive \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 1: Total length (TL; mm), weight (Wt; g), radio tag frequency (MHz) of yearling Muskellunge at time of tagging (18 May and 19 May 2023) and stocking into Spirit Lake and Lake Cornelia. Summary information of radio tag total detections, number (N) of days known to survive (e.g., day poststocking when fish was located and verified to be alive), and Muskellunge fate by 8 September 2023.  
from the analyses. Daily movement rates observed within the first seven DPS were pooled by lake to examine mean movement rates within the first week poststocking. Subsequent mean daily movement rates were calculated and pooled by each week poststocking to examine the movement behavior of Muskellunge throughout the study.