Ever see a blue walleye??

WHile filming with James and Stickboy up at Rainy Lake this weekend I caught this blue walleye. I have heard of them, but have never caught one. It was over the slot of 17″ so I couldn’t keep it. This was as blue as blue can be. We got this fish on film. I am hoping the video camera brings out the colors better. There are so many different colors of walleye in Rainy it’s crazy! Gold to jet black to shades of blue and green.

thats pretty cool Tuck thanks for sharing

congrats on a rare catch

Thanks! And yes…I know the pics are sideways…but if I flip them it reduces the size of the fish…I really wanted to keep the fish big to see the colors better…

Nice fish!. I can see the blue back. Cool suff!

-J.

Actually Tuck, I believe you could’ve kept it and last I heard the DNR is paying out big $$$ for live ones. Something like 5,000$ for one? Thats the last I heard because there so rare and they want to research them

http://www.great-lakes.org/1-26-98.html

There is a couple of lakes in Canada we catch them on. From what I learned up there, they can cover a lot of water pretty quick. We get them mostly suspended, and find the schools miles down the shore from the day before. Love that steel blue color though!

Wow. I have to admit, I’ve never heard of such a thing. Thanks for sharing that great lookin fish!

Nice Can’t tell by the pic’s, but does it have a white tipped tail ????

big G

Looks like a green sunfish to me.

Alton Lake, next to Sawbill in the BWCA, produces these. The bait shop just off I35 at Harris MN had a couple of them from Alton mounted and on display. Looks like great weather. Did you guys even see a cloud in the sky during this outing?

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Looks like great weather. Did you guys even see a cloud in the sky during this outing?

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Just the white fluffy kind. We had light winds and warm temps from beginning to end.

The MN Volunteer did an article about this a few months ago. I think that they said the color was from their mucus and not actually the color of their tissue. I think that the infamous blue, Lake Erie walleyes that might be all gone now had blue tissue and were genetically different.

I read the article also, they said the there might still be a strain of the Erie blue in a very remote lake, they were unable to verify this when they fished there. But they looked really blue.

Great pics Tuck. I’m waiting to get pics from Layne today. We have some great pictures of a couple different blue walleyes from the trip.

“Ever see a blue walleye??”

I did see one that looked pretty sad once. You could say blue.