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Albino Walleye?

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:54 pm
by Streamside88
so i went out to a catfish creek to see if i could beat my personal best and ended up catching a few white walleyes? no color what so ever black grey and white? anybody els encounter this?

if there's enough interest ill go through the trouble of posting pics...

Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:47 pm
by MichaelGA
That'd be cool to see... pics please.
'an
Thanks

Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:13 pm
by rex.stpierre
Please post pics, I've seen greenbacks but not albino...

Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:57 am
by Wallyboss
A sauger usually doesn't have much color.

Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 6:01 am
by Troutskiii
^^^ Sauger is what I was thinking also....

Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:26 am
by Yannick Loranger
I'm thinking sauger too, although in murky water, walleye can be VERY pale i.e. South Nation River, Lake Abitibi, and even the walleye from the Ottawa lately are lighter than usual.

Yannick

Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:24 am
by jona38
Lets see some pics!

Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:32 am
by CyrusG
fisherguy33 wrote:I'm thinking sauger too, although in murky water, walleye can be VERY pale i.e. South Nation River, Lake Abitibi, and even the walleye from the Ottawa lately are lighter than usual.

Yannick
I've also noticed if you fish the murky waters east of Ottawa some of the walleye/sauger tend to be a lot more pale.

Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:39 am
by ShawnD
Got to be Sauger, same thing different shade with more black spots and eyes are a odd shade.
Taste the same :mrgreen:

Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:06 pm
by Streamside88
ok so one of them could be a sauger (the smaller one) even though I've caught sauger before and they still had more color then this but the bigger one did'int have spots on his tail (witch tells me its a walleye) and was still abnormally pale.....

here's a sauger i usually catch not to far away (same size for comparison)

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and here is the one i caught at the creek

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and here is the Albino (colorless walleye)

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here is the walleye i usually catch near there

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Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 6:03 pm
by JZ
Just looks like a light coloured walleye, they can change quite a bit depending on water colour surroundings etc. The top pic actually looks like a saugeye. It has a white tip on the tail similar to walleye where that is absence in saugers.

Re: Albino Walleye?

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 6:17 pm
by Wallyboss
The light colored one is just a light colored walleye. See those all the time in muddy colored waters.