pool 2 saugeye!

My buddy Chris caught this saugeye earlier today shorefishing pool 2.

Way cool!

Sweet

Cool!

I’ve caught more Saugeyes on P2 this year than I can remember in the past.

Nice fish!

Very nice. Good to see that spot still kicking out fish for you. You hit your high water spot up by 494 yet this year.

Hit a couple of trolling runs today real quick with picking up a few fish off each on. One shore spot we hit kicked out a couple of fish to. Biggest find for us today was the mushrooms. Got a couple of nice bags full of them.

Hmm, that looks like 1 of 2 spots I have fished.

I’ve caught a few down there, but none that big!! nice fish

What is a good way to tell the difference between a regular walleye or a regular sauger apart from a saugeye?

Walleye will have white tip tail. Sauger will have black dots on dorsal fin. Saugeye will have both. I could be wrong buts that’s what I go by. Yea I was pretty jealous but also really happy for my buddy when he caught it.

Looks like a nice find there mike! I don’t like mushrooms but those look delicious for some reason.

You will need to go looking fast if you want to find some. Found many that where drying up all ready. Not to many days left for picking them.

Lol I tried for 5 hours and gave up. I can’t find a morel to save my life.

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What is a good way to tell the difference between a regular walleye or a regular sauger apart from a saugeye?

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Saugeye have the body of a walleye, head of a walleye (sometimes elongated a bit like a sauger), USUALLY blotches like a sauger, always a white tip (unless rubbed off), and ALWAYS sauger spots on the dorsal fin.

We caught one a few years back that had so little sauger in it that it looked exactly like a walleye, but had sauger spots on the dorsal. I was a little skeptical about throwing it on the stringer but it was a legal fish even if it was a walleye. If it was not a legal sized “walleye” it would have went back. Luckily that afternoon the local CO came and checked us and confirmed it was a saugeye. He said it likely was the spawn of a saugeye and a walleye and that is why it looked so much like an eye and nothing like a sauger. That is the only one I have caught or seen caught that I could not identify instantly that it was a saugeye.

I have caught saugers with white tails and walleyes with blotches, so be careful when identifying them. If you have a smart phone, look up some pictures before tossing a short walleye in the livewell by accident. When in doubt throw it out!

There are some very good pictures on the net on how to tell the three apart.

That is a good one