???Blue Perch????

[poncho2795]

about 55 years ago as a kid I use to take a row boat out around Nickle plate Park at night with a lantern and using shiners catch double header of blue pickeral (sp)? If you are catching blue perch take them to the Ohio DNR. There may be a link to them. Best eating fish that I had ever had. Wish they would return.

[branhamautomotive]

I have heard there used to be blue walleye in the lake and i have read about others getting a blue walleye up north that ppl are saying are not the same as the ones that used to live in lake. Guess that is part of the fun in fishing never knowing what is on the other end of the line till it comes up. I have had huge fish come in like little ones, little ones fight like a hige one. and now an honest to god blue perch. I love my hobby

[wakina]

Posted a question about blue perch on Ohio Sea Grant. Will hopefully get a reply in a couple of days.

[branhamautomotive]

sounds good did not get a chance to be interested in what they have to say

[Fishin Crazy]

The blue walleye (Sander vitreus glaucus), also called the blue pike, was a subspecies of the walleye that went extinct in the Great Lakes in the 1980s. Until the middle of the 20th century, it was a commercially valuable fish, with about a half million tonnes being landed during the period from about 1880 to the late 1950s, when the populations collapsed. To bad, I wish they were still around!

[wakina]

Here is a thread that OhioSeagrant directed me to. I also talked with a Ohio Fisheries Biologist and he said that the blue colored perch was most likely an albino. The following link is good reading.

http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/discuss/....html#msg15929

[branhamautomotive]

good reading for sure. the blue not being in the skin though i have a question with. this fish when scaled and cleaned the skin was still very blue! So it all being in the slime of the fish, might be true for the walleye. But unless the slime stained the skin of this fish through the scales. This fish had blue skin. But an albino it might be. All in know it sure was differant.

Thanks for taking some time to look into it

[FamilyTiesmarblehead]

i had a friend of mine that caught about 3 or 4 on the same trip last year. Believe it or not he was harbor fishing in his row boat because the lake was all blown up and he caught several perch over 13 inches long and 3 or 4 were albinos, or blue perch