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Posted by: Barleydog Posted on: Feb 02, 2003, 09:16 PM Flagstealer,Have you ever put fish in your cooler full of ice and looked at them an hour or so afterwards? They look exactly like that Pike. The pigment from the fish bleeds out of the fish and leaves that discolaration to the skin. That explains the splotchy coloring in the fish. I don't know if it's the lack of light, cold condition, or maybe the loss of blood in the fish that causes this??? Some fish that I have caught in Tanic (caused by Tamarack and Pine leeching into the water), water were off colared, almost silver. I have however seen Pike that were Blue in colar with white pupils, very strange