Perch w/o stripes

[perch chacer]

How common do you thinks it is for a perch not to have strips, see pic.  Caught it in 34 FOW and all the other perch I caught today had strips.

[Chawk190]

Now that’s something you don’t see every day.

[LP Steve]

I thought this was a filleting question

[icebites]

That thing is sweet lookin?   Have you ever seen one of those before chacer?

[perch chacer]

That thing is sweet lookin?   Have you ever seen one of those before chacer?

This color perch is a 1st for me and I've been around for a few years.  I have seen bleached out perch from deep water but they had stripes.  Did not  want to  kill this fish so I put him back.

[big_guy_13021]

That's a first for me to a perch like that..that's awesome..

[Seamonkey84]

Very cool!  I saw one other pic of one someone shared in a post that Not only had no stripes, it was blue https://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=367239.msg3948098#msg3948098 .
It might be a leucitic mutation. Not albino but lacking most pigment. There’s a pic of a yellow ling/Burbot posted in the Wyoming board https://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=368640.msg3969454#msg3969454

[HOTTIPDOWNS]

Yea once in a blue moon will get a non striped perch and a blue one lol

[SizeMatters]

Perch/Walleye hybrid? 

[perchslappinmy]

I got one from Lake George yesterday and a blue perch earlier this winter ...also from LG

[trapper2000]

you set the hook to hard and knocked his stripes off

[hunts2long]

or, it hasn't earned his stripes yet...h2l

[wildlifer100]

wondering if it's a yellow perch white perch cross.   if you caught it on GSL totally possible

[Fishmongerlyndon]

its a perch that lacks the black pigment in its body, just as a blue perch is one that lacks the ability to create the yellow pigment. they are both very uncommon occurring once in every 100,000 perch and usually don't make it to adulthood. thank you Fish Bio!

[THEiceman49]

Caught on Cayuga about 10 years ago

[FreshwaterPhil]

Caught a big stripeless perch while trolling for pike about 10 yrs ago.

[perchslappinmy]

its a perch that lacks the black pigment in its body, just as a blue perch is one that lacks the ability to create the yellow pigment. they are both very uncommon occurring once in every 100,000 perch and usually don't make it to adulthood. thank you Fish Bio!

Here's the blue perch from Lake George earlier this winter, it was a little guy. Didn't take a picture of the perch with no stripes last night...wish I had

[BOCHASER]

We have caught blue ones on Oneida which are really cool. I caught my first stripeless perch last Spring in Lake Ontario and thought it was a walleye at first. He was a giant!

[Prchmike]

I have caught them without stripes before in the Genesee River in Rochester. They are rare though but they’re not a cross just a genetic weirdo