Rod Caster Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 Tired another new-to-me, small lake today and caught another mid-day walleye! Barely under 43cms. I'm loving these tea-stained lakes for daytime walleye fishing. The belly was bright yellow, the fins orange and when I got it home, it was staining everything blue. This is the bluest (word?) walleye I've caught so far. Thought it was very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livinisfishin Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 Nice catch chad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spincast Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 nothing like finding a new lake that produces, congrats. Them blue ones are neat - we caught a couple up in Gowganda. A beauty barely under 16.929133858286 inch walleye (sorry, us old timers have to go find an online conversion tool to figure it out ) so - did you catch a sunburn too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercman Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 A Michael Jackson fish I knew they existed, but never saw one. Nice Chad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live2fish85 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Nice work Chad. That is crazy the blue that it leaves on the paper towel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broker Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Great work on the new lake ! Looks like tie dye on that papertowel, thats neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leecher Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Nice work Chad May be it got the blues before meeting your filet knife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted August 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 nothing like finding a new lake that produces, congrats. Them blue ones are neat - we caught a couple up in Gowganda. A beauty barely under 16.929133858286 inch walleye (sorry, us old timers have to go find an online conversion tool to figure it out ) so - did you catch a sunburn too? Haha, its easier not working with fractions. No sunburn... Actually wore a longsleeve most of the day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted August 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Nice work Chad May be it got the blues before meeting your filet knife Haha good one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jigsnreels Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Not a "true" blue walleye, is it? I thought they were extinct... could that be some sort of algae rubbing off it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bob Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Blue Pike (see Lake Erie) are all extinct......have been since the 50's I believe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bob Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Come on Bob, don't go confusin' the sitcheeayshun with regional names! But it's NOT a regional name..... http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/species_a_to_z/SpeciesGuideIndex/bluepike/tabid/21832/Default.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bob Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Regional means from only 1 area.......they were called "Blue Pike" here in the Buffalo area.....so that name stretched from the east to all the way to west end of Lake Erie....that's over 200 miles I believe and covers 4 states....that would be much more then regional. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadman Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 there are still blue walleye that exist.... the Albany River system has them.... if you do catch them they have to be released though. They are very cool to catch and see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted August 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 In the recent lake nipissing post it was mentioned that the current population of walleye are based on stocking efforts; that originally nipissing had blue walleye. Nnow, I'm guessing that the original "blue walleye" in nipissing was not the same as the lake Erie extinct population, but it still suggests a real and identifyable difference between the current blues and the yellows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickingfrog Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 As stated before the blue fish being caught now are a regular walleye (Sander vitreus, formerly Stizostedion vitreum). The fact that the colour comes off on towels and the snow would be a key point. http://www.ontariooutofdoors.com/fishing/walleye/?ID=86&a=read And even if the skin/scales were a different colour that alone does not mean it is a different species. The grey and black squirrels most of us are used to seeing are all grey squirrels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave524 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Regional means from only 1 area.......they were called "Blue Pike" here in the Buffalo area.....so that name stretched from the east to all the way to west end of Lake Erie....that's over 200 miles I believe and covers 4 states....that would be much more then regional. Bob But when you crossed the Peace Bridge they were called Blue Pickeral there are still blue walleye that exist.... the Albany River system has them.... if you do catch them they have to be released though. They are very cool to catch and see. They were never ever native there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted August 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 As stated before the blue fish being caught now are a regular walleye (Sander vitreus, formerly Stizostedion vitreum). The fact that the colour comes off on towels and the snow would be a key point. http://www.ontariooutofdoors.com/fishing/walleye/?ID=86&a=read And even if the skin/scales were a different colour that alone does not mean it is a different species. The grey and black squirrels most of us are used to seeing are all grey squirrels. What do you make of the claim that nipissing used to have blue walleye before the population crashed and was stocked? Is this just mis-information? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickingfrog Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 What do you make of the claim that nipissing used to have blue walleye before the population crashed and was stocked? Is this just mis-information? I've only heard that on this site. That doesn't mean it's not the case, I just haven't seen it elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonidstalker Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 (edited) Love the way blue walleye look. Had a blast catching them on Ogascanan a few years back. Edited August 8, 2012 by Salmonid Stalker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largemouthtrout Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Blue Pike (see Lake Erie) are all extinct......have been since the 50's I believe... Strange ... last summer my buddy told me his friend caught a blue coloured pike , and asked me if i had ever seen one before ... ( no ) . Next time i was at the fishing shop , i asked about it but anybody had seen one before ... ( no ) . I was told of blue looking walleye . I,m going to ask him were that was again . Could have been a fluke of nature ... or ... might not be extinct after all . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cja Posted August 9, 2012 Report Share Posted August 9, 2012 In Quebec the are some lakes that all the walleye are of a bluish tinge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosebunk Posted August 9, 2012 Report Share Posted August 9, 2012 Caught a few of those blue slime eyes up on the Moose River back in the northern days... I believe it was Pyzer who wrote about the slime actually being "bacteria" related but, that this bacteria is an occassionally occuring harmless flora to the fish itself. Tasted like blueberries to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehg Posted August 9, 2012 Report Share Posted August 9, 2012 As stated before the blue fish being caught now are a regular walleye. http://www.ontariooutofdoors.com/fishing/walleye/?ID=86&a=read And even if the skin/scales were a different colour that alone does not mean it is a different species. The above link provided shows what a scientist discovered. It seems that a certain protein usually excreted through urine is released through the skin causing the blueish colouration. It is a regular walleye with this feature. Helps to do the little extra reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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