Walleye

[mike_skoges]

Hey guys caught my first walleye of the year on open water about 2 weeks ago and caught one more last weekend as well. Not huge but definitely not bad either Thought I would post a picture. One weighed in at 4lbs even and the other was 3lbs 12 oz only have a picture of the first.

[anderson_dc]

Nice fish but not a walleye.  It is either a sauger or saugeye (dark mottling on the sides and spots on the dorsal fin) and that makes it even better.  If you dont mind me asking, where did you catch it?

[Kevin23]

Shure looks like a walleye to me. A sauger or saugeye would have spots on the top fin. That one does not. Also you can not go by the markings on the body because all river walleyes look like that. If it was a sauger or saugeye it would be long and skinny and not look like a football.


100% not a sauger and 99% sure its not a saugeye

[BucksNDucks]

Nice saugeye!!!

[icerod]

If I am not mistaken, guys I don't think saugers or saugeyes have white tips on their tails.  That fish has a white tip on its tail it is a walleye. just putting my two cents in, by the way very nice fish. where did you get them at?

[mike_skoges]

Hey guys, I always have a hard time telling them apart. I was going by the white tips as well which is why I thought it was an eye. I actually caught both of them in Corallville. Send me a message and I can tell you what they are hitting on as well. I am fishing in the river off the shore so those of you in lakes not sure about that. Good luck guys and any help I can be I would love to help. That is as long as you don't keep them all Gotta let them stay out there a little. I keep one for dinner and than release the rest.

[Kevin23]

Saugeye usually have spots on the dorsal fin along with a white spot on the tail.

The blotching on the body is on both walleye and sauger in murky rivers of iowa. I caught a little walleye today 10" long that had blotching like a sauger but im 100% sure it was a walleye.


Saugeyes are also long like a sauger and have a long nose. The walleye is almost like a football and has a shorter more stubby nose like the one in the pic.


http://www.landbigfish.com/images/fish/LBF_Saugeye.jpg

That is a saugeye, notice that the shape is nothing like the one in the picture.

[Big Blue]

Bring the fillet to my house. I can tell by the taste. 

[N3480H]

Um . . . nice . . . fish.

[BojiHawk]

Heck of a nice Waugereye....I'm going walleye guys....lacks the spots on the dorsal....also the white tip with no black accent.  Body markings look like a river walleye...some have those black chevron shaped blotches but doesn't make them any less a walleye.  But the dorsal is kind of the hallmark of it..at least in the Mizzoo out here it is...it's rare we catch a true walleye many days.  And it's size..if I'm wrong (know to happen :-)   it's a heck of a nice sauger / saugeye.  The large genuine sauger I have caught are very white on the belly, have rougher scales, longer and leaner from the caudal to tail tip, and always always always have black spots on the dorsal.

[Kevin23]

Heck of a nice Waugereye....I'm going walleye guys....lacks the spots on the dorsal....also the white tip with no black accent.  Body markings look like a river walleye...some have those black chevron shaped blotches but doesn't make them any less a walleye.  But the dorsal is kind of the hallmark of it..at least in the Mizzoo out here it is...it's rare we catch a true walleye many days.  And it's size..if I'm wrong (know to happen :-)   it's a heck of a nice sauger / saugeye.  The large genuine sauger I have caught are very white on the belly, have rougher scales, longer and leaner from the caudal to tail tip, and always always always have black spots on the dorsal.

100% correct. I catch ALOT of saugers, saugeyes, and walleyes on the miss. I could tell the difference when I was 12. I remember walleye fishing when i had to stand on a bucket to fish over the railing around the lock at lock 14. I still caught more than half the people fishing there LOL. They always got Pi$$ed off when a 7 year old is catching keeper eyes off a bucket when they cant even get a bite!!! Those were the days

[BucksNDucks]

Could also be a Zander!!!

[BojiHawk]

Nope...not a Zander....no wooden shoes, teeth are way to straight,

[Doop]

Chupacabra? 

I would guess walleye....whatever it is...lol....NICE FISH!!!!  I can hear that baby being released to the grease!