Fished lake pepin this weekend got one nice sauger ,i actually think it was a saugeye but not sure how to tell the difference it was almost 18″ just a pig lots of spots on dorsal fin and very light color skin
Doesn’t a saugeye have the white tip on tail?
It did have a little piece of white like a eye but everything else about it looked mostly like a sauger except was bigger then most cigar sized sauger i catch
Probably still a sauger. Sauger will have a hint of white on the tail too.
Here’s a thread that discusses sauger, saugeye, and walleye identification. Because the hybrids of walleye & sauger are not sterile, a saugeye could be mostly sauger or mostly walleye or anything in between.
https://www.in-depthoutdoors.com/community/forums/topic/sauger-or-saugeye-and-why/
Booone
18″ Saugers on pool 4 in winter are usually 2 to 2.5 pound fish. They’re just big fish up there.
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