Back is yellow-olive with a brassy cast. Sides brassy-yellow with dark mottling. Belly is white. Dark spot at rear of spiny dorsal fin. Anal fin and lower lobe of tail fin are white.
Eyes are opaque-silver in color.
Moderate canine-like teeth. Bottom oriented fish, due to their sensitivity to light, prefering to stay in deep water during the day, moving to shallow waters during the night. Spawn in spring, in relatively shallow water, over clean gravel or rocky bottoms. Walleye prefer fish but will eat crayfish and worms. In Arizona, their main diet is threadfin shad.