Good Weekend...

[rdneckhntr]

Heres a few pics of the fish I caught over the weekend...I caught the gar Thursday(not me holding it), then I caught the smallie saturday and the walleye(my first) sunday... creek chubs, roostertail, and tube...

 

[rdneckhntr]

Smallie and walleye...

 

[Captain Ahab]

Nice job, the gar looks cool!

 

[Zman]

Nice fish! I'm not positive, but it looks like you got a sauger there, not a walleye. They're some cool lookin fish!

 

[rdneckhntr]

Nice job, the gar looks cool!

Yea it was dead lol...those things put up a heck of a fight...

 

[rdneckhntr]

Nice fish! I'm not positive, but it looks like you got a sauger there, not a walleye. They're some cool lookin fish!

Well then I reckon it's my first sauger. How can you tell the difference in them? My uncle told me it was a walleye but he doesnt fish for them...

 

[Jim]

Nice fish! I'm not positive, but it looks like you got a sauger there, not a walleye. They're some cool lookin fish!

Well then I reckon it's my first sauger. How can you tell the difference in them? My uncle told me it was a walleye but he doesnt fish for them...

I would have to agree with Zman....

https://www.dnr.state.oh.us/wildlife/Fishing/aquanotes-fishid/sauger.htm

 

[rdneckhntr]

Nice fish! I'm not positive, but it looks like you got a sauger there, not a walleye. They're some cool lookin fish!

Well then I reckon it's my first sauger. How can you tell the difference in them? My uncle told me it was a walleye but he doesnt fish for them...

I would have to agree with Zman....

https://www.dnr.state.oh.us/wildlife/Fishing/aquanotes-fishid/sauger.htm

Well Im gonna agree with you guys. All i know is that thing was 16 1/2" long and it hammered a tube bait that was settin on the bottom.

 

[Zman]

Well Im gonna agree with you guys. All i know is that thing was 16 1/2" long and it hammered a tube bait that was settin on the bottom.

That's a great catch then! I used to catch quite a few in the 3 Rivers around Pittsburgh, and mostly on tubes and fatheads. I don't think I ever caught one over 16". After you catch a few walleye and sauger you'll start to see the difference.

The most obvious to me, back then, was the dark, detailed patches all over the sauger. Where I fished, the sauger had light and dark brown shades and the walleye had a slightly greener tint. And the spots on the fins. Even the eye, if I remember correctly is much more white where the walleye I think was more reflective.

The difficult thing for me is identifying a saugeye, which was a hybrid walleye/sauger.