Author Topic: Blue perch, ever caught one? (Read 4436 times)

FisherMr · « **Reply #1 on:** Dec 27, 2007, 09:38 PM »

I caught some typically colored perch this morning, and some of them had noticible blue on their gill plates.

fishingking · « **Reply #2 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 07:11 AM »

Quote from: jigmaster5000 on Dec 28, 2007, 07:05 AM

Check this out....

Mysterious blue perch surface in Minnesota
From: http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/sports/outdoors/14117606.htm

now make sure you contact this guy about your catches

vermonner · « **Reply #3 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 07:12 AM »

please don't tell Al Gore...
Congratulations on your rare catches

4cator · « **Reply #4 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 11:50 AM »

Interesting looking fish

raider111 · « **Reply #5 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 12:35 PM »

Can you eat these fish?

marshrat · « **Reply #6 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 12:39 PM »

Quote from: raider111 on Dec 28, 2007, 12:35 PM

Can you eat these fish?

Yes

KingFisher1 · « **Reply #7 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 12:46 PM »

every year we get one or two of these ice fishing on Lake Erie. They are extremely blue when you first pull them out of the hole, but the color seems to fade quickly as the fish lies on the ice.

Danderson · « **Reply #8 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 01:07 PM »

thats really cool! similar to blue pike, too. if you can use perch as bait over there, definitly use some of those, fish naturally go after albinos and the such

walleye hunters · « **Reply #9 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 07:19 PM »

must be something in the water lol

Edge · « **Reply #10 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 08:06 PM »

That's wild! Learn something new everyday.

PeteTown · « **Reply #11 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 10:34 PM »

were you fishing near a neuclear power plant.......DOH

irishjigger · « **Reply #12 on:** Dec 29, 2007, 03:15 PM »

Jiggy , your pics never cease to amaze me , thats is pretty cool! Hope you had a Merry Xmas and Have a Happy New Year !!

SPARKYICE · « **Reply #13 on:** Dec 29, 2007, 03:19 PM »

i've caught them ocasionally, a couple a year, from waneta lake in nys.
i've got a real nice pic of a blue one next to a yellow one, but dang if i can figure out how to post it.
i can e-mail it to anyone interested. send me a pm

irishjigger · « **Reply #14 on:** Dec 29, 2007, 03:25 PM »

AH thats it , Jiggy its got something to do with you , or your family ! Waneta isnt that far from where your bro used to live in NY !!! :clap:You two been up to something??!!

elmerross · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 05:26 PM »

I caught a blue perch in canandaigua lake in NY last spring with whistlewing.We thought it was albino or something?

-ADKIceman · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 05:56 PM »

wow... those are really cool looking. I have never seen anything like them

thanks for sharing

getrdone · « **Reply #17 on:** Jan 03, 2008, 04:55 PM »

Very interesting, we used to have blue pike in NY, but I heard that overfishing wiped them out - wonder if that trait is showing up in new species...pretty cool at any rate...

deadsmelthead · « **Reply #18 on:** Jan 03, 2008, 05:56 PM »

So what I want to know is if the entire yellow perch population turns blue are we going to rename them?

jabers69 · « **Reply #19 on:** Jan 03, 2008, 09:52 PM »

Cool never saw one before

walleyesteve · « **Reply #20 on:** Jan 04, 2008, 11:44 AM »

I caught a Blue perch on Dec. 23 on a landlocked lake in Brighton, Mi. The lake was stocked with perch approx 10 yrs ago. The blue was compared to a yellow perch, the blue had double the stripes. The dorsal fin and stripes were blue in color and the background was white/pink color. The pictures posted in this thread look like the perch I caught. I posted a report on bluewalleye.com, the site is a research tool for the blue walleye that are more common in Canada. They are also interested in the blue perch.
Walleye Steve

icy mike · « **Reply #21 on:** Jan 04, 2008, 02:28 PM »

Quote from: vermonner on Dec 28, 2007, 07:12 AM

please don't tell Al Gore...
Congratulations on your rare catches

that was my first thought as well!!!

SLIPPERYFISH · « **Reply #22 on:** Jan 04, 2008, 02:33 PM »

Cool looking perch. I have yet to see one.

whitetailmaster · « **Reply #23 on:** Jan 04, 2008, 03:26 PM »

Thats the first time i ever seen at. sweet.

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Author Topic: Blue perch, ever caught one? (Read 4436 times)