At DNR, spring and summer are devoted to raising the newest crop of baby muskies for the state’s stocking program. And it all begins at Lake Rebecca, our muskie broodstock lake in western Hennepin County. Fisheries staff are out, rain, shine, or snow, monitoring the fish to begin collecting 700,000 eggs as soon as the female muskies are ready to spawn. Then the eggs head to our St. Paul and Waterville hatcheries where staff constantly monitor everything from water cleanliness to oxygen levels as