You can also use a drift sock in conjunction with an electric motor or small outboard motor to maintain position while drifting along a flat or around a point. Tie a tail rope to the funnel end so that when you need to retrieve the bag, you can pull on the tail to collapse it. Tie the sock to a sturdy cleat. In waters that contain the two parent species and that may have saugeyes, this can lead to confusion and problems with regard to differing possession and size limits, especially since saugers and saugeyes are usually treated alike in regulations. Professional fisheries personnel use coloration as the main distinguishing characteristic.
Walleyes have a green body texture, whereas saugers and saugeyes have brown, mottled sides.
You can also check the cheeks, which are smooth on walleyes and scaled on the other species. Although there is no firm guideline, it is fair to say that most of the time most anglers use stronger line than they really need. Using very light line can make it harder to land fish quickly enough to release them unharmed. Pike may be active at any time during daylight hours. When the water is cold, you'll find that pike may be more active in the shallows later in the day, after the water has warmed up a bit.