True Blue

[l2p]

One of a few from this weekend and a first for me.

Truly a beautiful fish, pics never do justice. They really are blue!

 

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/LICENSETOPIN/DSC04984-Edit-Edit_zps9ri1cgni.jpg~original

 

Hope everyone had a great weekend despite the weather we had,

[misfish]

Very nice.

 

 

[l2p]

Thanks Misfish, turns out they are just a morph of a yellow walleye even though they are actually blue in color they are not the true blue walleye/pike considered to be extinct!

 

Still a first for me!

Edited May 25, 2017 by l2p

[dave524]

Vaguely remember fishing Blues out of Port Colborne with dad in the late 50's. They were a smaller Sauger like fish with big eyes, never much more than a pound or two. We'd fish them not unlike the deepwater perch fishery of today as they were a colder water species than the Yellow Pickeral. They were only native to Lakes Erie, Ontario and the Niagara River, never were native to any of the inland lakes that cough up the occasional blue morph Walleye.

 

Edit: it was funny how they were Blue Pickerel in Ontario but cross the river/border to Buffalo and they were called Blue Pike and really they were neither a pike or a pickerel.

Edited May 25, 2017 by dave524

[OhioFisherman]

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/15/us/in-angler-s-freezer-since-62-fish-may-refute-extinction.html

 

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267897578_Using_Ancient_DNA_to_Solve_the_Mystery_of_the_Extinct_Blue_Pike_Sander_Vitreus_Glaucus_Hubbs

 

More info on the blue pike if you're interested.

[LittleWorm]

Beautiful fish man!