Caught my first Ohio River Walleye

[Fisherjoe]

Was it a walleye or a sauger? Have not heard of many walleye being caught around here. Just curious...

[JD7.62]

Was it a walleye or a sauger? Have not heard of many walleye being caught around here. Just curious...

I like to say Im an amateur fisherman and semi-pro fish geek...it was 100% walleye.

Check out the 7lb walleye caught at the falls in the photo board, that was one of the three Ive seen recently. It was a beauty!

[kc]

There are walleye in the river just in small numbers. They look like a sauger except in the river they are greener, don't have the dark blotches that many of the sauger have, and they have a yellow tip on the bottom ray of their tail. If you look them up in a fisheries book they also have a different number of rays in their dorsal fin and such.

Now to really blow your mind there are also "saugeyes" where sauger and walleye have cross-bred. I can't tell you how to spot a saugeye but I have heard from the fisheries people that it does happen. Years ago a friend of mine caught what we thought was a walleye while striper fishing below the dam that went around 6 pounds. But it looked more like a sauger and thats when I learned about saugeye and it was probably one of them (we released it so it wasn't confirmed)...

kc

[Tyme2fish]

Yes,there are definitely Walleye in the Ohio. I caught several last year.

[EsoxMtK]

There are walleye in the river, but only a few. I caught a few, a couple of years ago.