@TnRiver46 Great smallie by your buddy and I'm pretty sure your fish is a saugeye. Spots on the dorsal and barred tail. Walleye have a black splotch on the back end of the dorsal and white tip on the bottom of the tail. Cool fish.

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

and a walleye

Not a walleye. They have a white spot on the tail.

I believe it's a sauger or a saugeye.

Looks like @JonB2 beat me to it above

1 hour ago, 2earlye said:

I apologize. I came off rude. Tight lines.

I'm sure she's retired. There are a lot of regular posters here that are.

I'm not lol

32 minutes ago, JonB2 said:

@TnRiver46 Great smallie by your buddy and I'm pretty sure your fish is a saugeye. Spots on the dorsal and barred tail. Walleye have a black splotch on the back end of the dorsal and white tip on the bottom of the tail. Cool fish.

I rarely catch any of them so I’m not great at telling them apart. Not sure if we have saugeye but we do have lots of sauger, caught a nice one in the same river (I think)

And another below the dam last week

And then a couple weeks ago, I think I got this (maybe) walleye

All I go by is black blotches are sauger and no blotches are walleye 😂. And I’ve never heard of anyone catching a saugeye in my region so I just assumed they don’t exist here