Post by: BLKBEARKLR on May 10, 2010, 03:45:44 PM
Joe
Post by: littlemac on May 10, 2010, 04:08:27 PM
What were the measurements?
Post by: rasbo on May 10, 2010, 04:15:03 PM
Post by: benhuntin on May 10, 2010, 04:16:24 PM
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on May 10, 2010, 04:46:34 PM
I was excited to do this one with it being a blue walleye, they are pretty rare to catch, I just wish the guy had taken better reference photos. I talked to the master of fish painting couple of weeks ago and in 35 years he has only done two of them so he told me to keep it dark not a lot of shines of gold or copper to them and go for it. So hopefully it will be the same pattern.
This is the best pic I could find of what they look like
Post by: alanger on May 10, 2010, 04:47:58 PM
Post by: WCTaxidermy on May 10, 2010, 06:19:27 PM
Post by: rasbo on May 10, 2010, 06:28:37 PM
Post by: Elkstuffer on May 10, 2010, 07:52:46 PM
Post by: yelp on May 10, 2010, 08:05:41 PM
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on May 10, 2010, 08:21:48 PM
The blue walleye (Sander vitreus glaucus), was a subspecies of the walleye that went extinct in the Great Lakes in the 1980s. Until the middle of the 20th century, it was a commercially valuable fish with about a half million tonnes being landed during the period from about 1880 to the late 1950s, when the populations collapsed.
The fish was endemic to lakes Erie and Ontario of the Great Lakes region of North America, including the inter-connecting Niagara River, but most especially to Lake Erie where it sometimes represented more than 50% of the commercial catch. The subspecies was apparently extirpated in the Great Lakes by about 1983 through a combination of anthropogenic eutrophication, overfishing and competition with the introduced rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax. In the Great Lakes, The subspecies is now considered extinct.
There are occasional reports of blue walleye being caught from waters in the Great Lakes Basin. This is because many yellow walleye populations also contain a colour variant with a bluish colour. The actual blue walleye, however, was said to be distinguishable from the yellow walleye by various meristics and morphometrics which the blue colour variant of the yellow walleye seems not to share. Reportedly, though, some of the meristic and morphometric differences may simply have been artifacts of the different growth rates of yellow and blue walleyes. The clearest evidence, however, is that the blue walleye, whatever its taxonomic status, has been lost. Nonetheless, an investigation of genetic material from preserved blue walleye specimens is currently underway in several research facilities in an effort to decipher the true status of the populations.
To date, none of the bluish-coloured walleyes recently captured has been shown to be a blue walleye, despite the fact that at least one organization in the US is offering a reward for the successful capture of a blue walleye specimen. A United States Fish and Wildlife Service recovery plan in the mid-1970s was unable to find any certain evidence of the blue walleye's existence at that time. Nine purported blue walleyes captured in 1975[citation needed] , including a number of gravid females, were inconclusive as to their subspecific designation and failed to produce any viable offspring through artificial propagation. The last known blue walleyes, to any degree of certainty, were captured in about 1983 from both lakes Erie and Ontario[citation needed] . Subsequent exhaustive efforts to find a relict population have been entirely unsuccessful. The loss of the blue walleye is, arguably, an extinction event on par with the loss of the passenger pigeon and the near-extirpation of the American bison. Where once the subspecies numbered in the millions, all are now gone.
Post by: yelp on May 10, 2010, 08:28:44 PM
Post by: littlemac on May 10, 2010, 08:35:18 PM
Love that blueish variant.
I also love to catch and eat them at shore lunch, here's a little stringer of lunch and take home fish we caught a couple of years ago. No blue ones here
Post by: yelp on May 10, 2010, 08:36:30 PM
Big 33 inch Zander! Fishing in the Netherlands 84cm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmoKTWOpEGI#)
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on May 10, 2010, 08:36:39 PM
Littlemac, going to share some of those!!!!!!
Joe
Post by: yelp on May 10, 2010, 08:38:56 PM
Yelp that is a sweet one.
Littlemac, going to share some of those!!!!!!
Joe
Yeah..I'll have a fish taco! Little Mac! :drool:
Post by: littlemac on May 10, 2010, 08:44:38 PM
You can imagine how fresh walleye tasted with taters, onions and beer :IBCOOL:
Post by: rasbo on May 10, 2010, 08:49:10 PM
Post by: littlemac on May 10, 2010, 11:51:57 PM
Would these be enough to be able to do a good replica. We didn't have a lot of time to handle the fish as we released it. 29 1/2 inch fish, The gerth may be in the diary a friend keeps on our trips.
I never got into a trophy up there, just numbers, but my wife nailed this fish in 2006.
Post by: bowhunterforever on May 11, 2010, 12:23:28 AM
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on May 11, 2010, 06:26:19 AM
BLKBEARKLR, I was trying to find these pics, never thought about getting a mount.
Would these be enough to be able to do a good replica. We didn't have a lot of time to handle the fish as we released it. 29 1/2 inch fish, The gerth may be in the diary a friend keeps on our trips.
I never got into a trophy up there, just numbers, but my wife nailed this fish in 2006.
Little Mac, that is an awesome fish, yes those pics are good enough to do a replica from, lots of gold on that one, and not a lot of barring on the sides of it. A lot of times if there is something that is unusual is when you need a lot of close up pictures to replicate it.
bowhunterforever - Thank you
Joe