???Blue Perch????

[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

[wakina]

The mucus glands are contained within the skin therefore if it is an albino with lack of normal coloration the glands and mucus would still be visible in the skin thus the blue color after scaling. an example would be to scale a northern pike and fillet, rinse the fillets untill no slime is present and refridgerate, those scaled and clean fillets will be snotty as all get out in just a couple of hours. That is the mucus glands in the skin at work! The same process works with all fish only more so with pike.

[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