I think my dad caught a bluepike tonight(lake erie)

I have caught probably near a 1000 walleye in my lifetime and I have seen so many others with the blue morph. None like this one of course we didn't have the camera onboard the boat at the time. Here is my story though.

My dad hooks the "walleye" trolling and he lifts it up for me to net it and immediatly I go what the heck to you have on? When the he lifted the fish it didn't look right its fins were different. The way it was swimming it looked almost like a sucker fish! Needless to say we netted it and it kind of looked kind of like a walleye but we noticed something extremely odd. Its eyes were near the top of its head and its fins were a turquoise(aqua blue color unlike the other blue morphed fish I have seen. I wish I would of had the camera! But needless to say we took a fin and scale sample that is currently in the freezer and tossed it overboard to fight(hopefully spawn) another day.

My question is what do I do if I catch his ass again tomarrow? lol Do you keep the whole fish and kill it for the us fish and wildlife to study it or do you let it go in hopes that it lives.
And color you see those light blue smilies like this that was the color of its tail fin I am not kidding around. I have caught hundrends and hundreds of walleye and I have never seen anything like this. Hopefully The biologist give us some good news, either way though it is one of the prettiest fish I have ever seen. Picture a turquoise buggy eyed walleye 16'' long it was a beauty!
And we caught 15 walleye 2night 16 if you count the blue one and none of the others looked anything like this one. They were green and this one was aqua-turquoise! I could not believe it!

Druu;2012438; said:

no phone either? all but the crappiest of phones come with a camera...

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My dad had a work phone and I never bring the camera phone I will try from now on. But what do you do kill it to take a picture to send in. I think it was better to let it go in hopes of it being one rather than finding out it was one and having it be dead.

Well if the deepwater sculpin, lake sturgeon, and white fish can come back from the dead why not the blue pike? Scientists thought the deepwater sculpin was "extinct". Well the blue pike was declared an extinct species in 1983 and there was one caught in dunkirk ny lake erie in 2006.lol They may be extinct in other places, but not lake erie.
Fish commission didn't even seem excited when I gave it to them to ID.