Rare catch...another great day 5/31

[Eyezcrazy]

We fished our favorite honey hole up on the border yesterday and caught 6 nice fish in the first 45 minutes using the same program as last weekend. It slowed down fast and we only caught 2 more in the next 2 hours so we decided to troll SW along the East side of the islands. We would hit pockets and take 3 fish in 5 minutes then nothing again for an hour. I'm sure we could have limited early if we wanted to fight the wind and waves and double back to those hotspots but chose to take the easy route and kept heading back toward Catawba. We did end up with our limits, my niece caught her first walleye ever and my son caught a rare blue walleye! I remember a past post on here about a blue perch being caught and some were talking about the blue walleye but I never thought we would see one on my boat. He was only a 20 inch fish but unique anyway. The WO checked us at the dock and said it was the first one he'd ever seen. I will try to post a pic showing the blue walleye next to a regular one to show the difference.

[wakina]

Blue in perch and walleyes is like an albino in the animal world. It is supposedly caused by lack of pigment. The same as a white deer or any other animal not normally white in color and reddish eyes. Information can be searched for on Ohio Sea Grant. I am on my phone or would post the info.

Forgot to thank you for the report and congrats on the blue walleye. That memory will last a lifetime.

[wakina]

Wow! That sure is a deep blue, seen some in the past that were blue but a much lighter shade of blue.

[Eyezcrazy]

He definitely stood out when we got him in. I am trying to get better at uploading pics, I can't seem to get them from my phone so that was a pic of a pic from my phone to my iPad. I guess I better just start taking the pics on the iPad to simplify things. I'll try to get better.

[wakina]

He definitely stood out when we got him in. I am trying to get better at uploading pics, I can't seem to get them from my phone so that was a pic of a pic from my phone to my iPad. I guess I better just start taking the pics on the iPad to simplify things. I'll try to get better.

Send them to your email address from your phone then save them to your computer. Then you can upload them or print them however you like. Your iPad should also have your email so it would work just as well if you send them to your email. I will not take my iPad near the water for obvious reasons pics or not.

[Eye ripper]

GREAT CATCH !!!!! never seen such a thing....

[jproffitt10]

Definitely can notice the difference! Did you eat it? Most likely, at least according to the scientists I spoke to, that this walleye is not a blue pike, but a walleye with a coating of blue slime. Check out information about blue pike and blue walleye at the following link:
http://wildlakeerie.com/?s=blue+pike

[Zander Man]

Where's a picture?

[Eyezcrazy]

Where's a picture?

It's in the first post on page 1 of this thread Zander Man.

[B can man]

Not accusing anyone of anything here, but was that image enhanced in any way?

The blue on the collar of the tanktop seems way too blue. The net handle appears quite blue. The entire fish is blue except one little spot on the gill, which is regular walleye color. The water is VERY blue, which isn't abnormal sometimes, but it doesn't seem to match up with the low quality photo taken.

Self-correcting cameras can add colors to a picture in a funny way, but there sure seems to be a lot of extra blue in this pic.

I was actually scrutinizing the picture for age (checking to see if it was from the 70's or 80's due to the texture of the photo). I was looking at the instrument cluster and other things when all of the extra blue popped out at me.

Eyecrazy has been a good contributor to the site, which is why I am not eager to point a finger, but am wondering if the photo got self-corrected or chenged in some other way.