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Ice Fishing Media => Ice Fishing Pictures => Topic started by: ChrisinSTJVT on Feb 02, 2008, 04:45 PM
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Caught this today jiggin. It's not very big but pretty cool. Read about these on here before but never saw one myself. The guy I fish with has never seen one either. Wish I had the camera with me on the ice cause these pics don't do the color of it when it first came out of the water justice.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/chrisvt/Fish%20pics/IMGA0086.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/chrisvt/Fish%20pics/IMGA0085.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/chrisvt/Fish%20pics/IMGA0084.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/chrisvt/Fish%20pics/IMGA0083.jpg)
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dont look to blue to me
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I caught one in Dec. and thought it was strange too. They are rare to catch for sure. I talked to a professor at State of Minnesota he's doing a study on them and is looking for slime samples and or the entire fish. So if you have'nt fried it yet, you may want to check out Bluewalleye.com, there is contact info and sampling instructions. He claims the slime is blue in color, I did'nt know and did'nt notice any blue color. The cool thing is he's a fisherman and a scientist looking out for our sport.
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cool stuff wish we could of seen the pics a lil better
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Would have liked to have seen it on the ice.
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Thanks Steve and Jay. I will be sure to check that site out. I actually froze the fish whole in water as I plan on doing a multi perch mount and want this fish to be part of it. We have caught literally thousands of perch from this lake over the yrs and have not seen anything like this before. Yeah I know the pic quality sucks I took them on our DV recorder and there doesn't seem to be much for a still pic menu.
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I have never cought a blue perch but have seen the pictures...
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VERY COOL!! I caught a 13 inch one of these "Blue Perch" last year. It is at the taxidermists now. I had never seen or heard of this before i caught it. Can't wait until it is done so i can hang it up!!
stay on top!
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Neat looking perch, way to go ChrisinSTJVT. 8)
It should look good in a mount with normal colored perch.
WW
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catch that down stream from the paper mill?????????????
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Papa smurff!!! cool catch!
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Looking for more pics of these Blue perch but I am not having much luck finding them. Anyone have any or links to them.
Thanks
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Looks like he was suffering from a severe lack of oxygen!
:sick:
NBG
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Are you going to have it mounted? It is very unique.
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Yes just dropped it off yesterday. The taxaderimist was so interested in it that he said he would start on it right away and have it done by first of april. Thought that was pretty decent of him and he said he would do both sides so it could be set up however I want later. Most places around here are 6mths to a yr.
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dont look to blue to me
were did u catch that
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Thats sweet i would try to sell it after i got it mounted
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i'll be #@%$^%$. never saw one of those.
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Cool pic ;D
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id be ashamed keeping that little fella
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I CAUGHT ONE IN NY LAST SPRING.........
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That's a rare catch- I wouldn't be ashamed keeping or mounting that. Nice fish-I've been waiting for one of them myself and chances are it will never happen. That will be a pretty mount with other perch with it.
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This fish was caught in northern VT.
Believe me I am not ashamed about keeping it.
I think the point is it's a BLUE PERCH I don't think it matters much wether it's 7" or 17".
Thanks I can't wait to see it mounted also.
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thats so cool. i woukd have been so confused pulling that thing on the ice
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Excellent catch!
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Did you check out bluewalleye.com for a slime sample?
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I got one near that color last week and put it back.
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never seen those befor, nice pics.
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That is different????????
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Never heard of a blue perch. Interesting.
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nice fish, way to go.should blow the pic up and show.
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I ALSO CAUGHT A BLUE PERCH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WAS VERY COOL..fish and game siad it was not anything special but i sure thought it was cool !!just a pigmantation defect ..but very cool none the less !!nice catch and congrats !!
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The wife wants to know if that is the fish or the bait!!?? Neat color. Would make a nice lure finish. May your flags fly high. 8)
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little dinks ya got there bud....hope ya dont have a big family to feed...couple chips.... :tipup:
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Here's one I caught last year, next one im getting mounted.
(http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww351/trurA2U/2006_0101Image0001.jpg)
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you guys are acting like its rare or something...you go up to blake lake in ny and catch them like that all day on mile arm bay...also crappie by bthe bucket load... only bad part with them is there is no size to em...
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I've actually caught quite a few that had a blue tint like that to them.
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Never caught one but saw one caught out of Champlain a couple years back a old guy caught it
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Ive caught a few in the past years. Here's another picture from one i caught up in New York.
(http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww351/trurA2U/2006_0101Image0006.jpg)
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Thats pretty cool but maybe it just had the flu and was looking a little pale!!!
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i was just wonderin what lake u r finding these blue perch in if u dont mind
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He never said what lake but i believe it was just north of papa smurf point... ???
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He never said what lake but i believe it was just north of papa smurf point... ???
HAHA!
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Catching a perch like that must be like winning the lottery! Awesome fish!! I can't wait to see the mount with it.
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Caught this today jiggin. It's not very big but pretty cool. Read about these on here before but never saw one myself. The guy I fish with has never seen one either. Wish I had the camera with me on the ice cause these pics don't do the color of it when it first came out of the water justice.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/chrisvt/Fish%20pics/IMGA0086.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/chrisvt/Fish%20pics/IMGA0085.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/chrisvt/Fish%20pics/IMGA0084.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/chrisvt/Fish%20pics/IMGA0083.jpg)
i can tell that bottom one is like a blue grey. never seen anything like that. mount it
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Just caught another BLUE yesterday
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never caugt a blue but we used to catch perch in cowanesque lake that had the stripes goin the wrong way i caught 4 or 5 had friends who have caught some i wish i would have taken pictures that is the only place i have seen any bassman79 ;D ;D ;D
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There is a lake near kalkaska Michigan that about every 4th or 5th perch is blue. They are useally smaller than the average fish out of that lake and I seem to catch more on the ice than in the summer. Still a cool fish, But not very rare where I fish. RB
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should get it mounted . who cares how big it is . my dad caught one a long long time ago neither of us has ever seen one sence. very cool!
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should mount it
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I posted some pictures of blue crayfish to another thread i'll see if I still have the pics.
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found these guys after a heavy rain storm along the road by the Lake
(http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg176/jimclaude/DSCN3410.jpg)
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is there a nuclear power plant close by those crayfish are unique!!! Anyways blue perch caught one last weekend that had a blue tint to it threw it back and thought nothing of it, i'll have to pay attention next time.
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I THINK THEY ARE RARE IVE NEVER CAUGHT ONE OR SEEN ONE IN WYOMING
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i would just mount it myself..... it would be very easy.... just sayin :whistle:
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This is a gentic mutation sort of like albinoism. The animal doesn't produce a certain pigment and the result is a blue color.
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Caught this one yesterday, it was half blue. Color went from normal yellow straight to bright metallic blue.
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b211/toocheaptosmoke/100MEDIA95IMAG0075x.jpg)
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I've never even heard of blue perch before this posting, that's pretty cool
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here is one that ChowderHead caught a few seasons back
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/icejunky/Steenburg%20Lake/BluePerch.jpg)
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found these guys after a heavy rain storm along the road by the Lake
(http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg176/jimclaude/DSCN3410.jpg)
Every 1 in 1 million lobsters are blue theres another color i think green thats one in every 10 million
never heard of a blue crawfish before
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Every 1 in 1 million lobsters are blue theres another color i think green thats one in every 10 million
never heard of a blue crawfish before
yellow is the one rarer than blue for lobsters. Rarer yet are albinos
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Ya know, I have been sitting here thinking about this blue perch. Perch are yellow and green as we all know. We also know that all things have certain pigmentation characteristics within our gene pool depending on the species. The fact that a blue perch lacks yellow in some, and lacks green in all tells me that the yellow part of the gene is missing in some of these fish, because if ya know your primary colors you will understand that it takes yellow and blue to make green. So a blue perch in my opinion is just lacking yellow in its pigment makeup. I also understand that things exposed to high amounts on nitrogen can become blue-ish in color like a blue spruce, thus negating the yellow from green leaving blue. That's my take on that.
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yellow is the one rarer than blue for lobsters. Rarer yet are albinos
Yeah i knew it was some other really odd color not green. Ive never even heard or seen of an albino lobster.
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Do the blue perch get as large as the yellows?
Their kinda neat looking.
Or maybe they are just really cold.... ;)
Sorry, bad joke :tipup:
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Or maybe they are just really cold.... ;)
then be a nice fella and warm them poor little fish up......in the frying pan!!!!
cool lookin fish, I haven't seen one of those in many many years
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cool looking fish!
those blue crayfish are ridiculous?! Did you use 'em for bait? Catch and orange bass?
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the blue crawfish are rare but the blue perch are not as rare in certain lakes. its in the fertility of the water and the genetics of the fish. such as there are different shades of blue gills and sunfish and different shades of catfish crappies and bass. there are yellow bass white bass. even large mouth bass look different in certain waters ive caught them where they look almost all green in one lake then almost white and grey in another. we even see this color event in duck hunting some more vibrant then others and some very drab and no its not just the plumedge i know young birds are drab but ive shot old drake mallards that were very pail in there coloring even seen pike with very faint spots and others were so dark and beautiful so my 2 cents say its genetics and water fertility
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Interesting pics,
thanks for sharing
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My ice buddy caught one of those my first year fishing with him in 2002. His was about 12" long. He should of had it mounted
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caught my first blue this year, then proceeded to catch numerous of them through the day. Went from never catching one to catching at least 10.
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put the darn thing on a tip up...get some color selection...that is sweet ;D ;D :tipup: