Extinct Blue Walleye Rediscoverd in Dale Hollow Lake.

[Kentucky Lake]

This is not a Crappie story, however I thought a lot of you may find this interesting.


The Blue Walleye was thought to be extinct for over 30 years.

However, this Blue Walleye was just caught in the 27,000 acre Dale Hollow Lake on the Kentucky/Tennessee border.


Once-in-lifetime fish found in local lake | The Tennessean | tennessean.com

[BarryG]

Just last week or the week before there was a show, "Fishing with Mark Romanack" and they were in ONT and every third fish they caught was a blue walleye! I even DVRd it so my son could see it because he was always interested in odd things like that. That was the first time I had ever heard of them......Very Interesting!!!

[logs]

Maybe there is more in there. I hope they are on an upswing.

[czoom]

Is there a pick or video of this fish? I don't see any on that site.

[Crappie 1]

Is this what used to be called "the Blue Pike"?

[shelldecoy]

I saw the same fishing show up in ontario.Pretty cool looking walleye

[flyboy2610]

Amazing how many 'extinct' species keep turning up alive and well.


"The coelacanths, which are related to lungfishes and tetrapods, were believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period. More closely related to tetrapods than even the ray-finned fish, coelacanths were considered the "missing link" between the fish and the tetrapods until the first Latimeria specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa, off the Chalumna River (now Tyalomnqa) in 1938. Museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered the fish among the catch of a local fisher, Captain Hendrick Goosen, on December 23, 1938. A local chemistry professor, JLB Smith, confirmed the fish's importance with a famous cable: "MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED"."
From: Coelacanth: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article

[Ben B]

i caught this one while sauger fishin the TN river a couple years ago. i dont know if it was a "blue" walleye but it lacked the gold coloring as the other walleyes ive caught. i figured it had just been hangin out in the deep and lost its color.


hmmm go figure.........

[bfish]

The bluepike also called blue walleye is extinct. It looked similar but had different characteristics than a standard walleye.

In regular walleye, occasionally there is a pigmentation that makes it look bluish, hence the blue walleye name. Sort of like albino or piebald but much more common. This type of blue walleye has exactly the same characteristics as a standard "green" walleye.

[Ben B]

bQUOTE=bfish;1799263]This type of blue walleye has exactly the same characteristics as a standard "green" walleye.[/QUOTE]

agreed.... TASTE GREAT!!!!!!!