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. Walleye are a bottom oriented fish, due to their sensitivity to light, preferring to stay in deep water during the day, moving to shallow waters during the night. They spawn in spring, in relatively shallow water, over clean gravel or rocky bottoms. Walleye prefer fish but will eat crayfish and worms. Their main diet in most lakes is threadfin shad.