Sauger / saugeye?, What is it?

Just got back from a few days on the lower French. Tough bite overall and high cold water. Got one nice 24” eye and also this little guy which I thought may have been a sauger or saugeye . Can anyone help identify?

Sauger..

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That my friend is a walleye. 100%.
Look at the tail bottom.

Sauger have black spotted dorsal fin. The walleye don’t and the last two spines on the dorsal are black. Since this is a juvenile, it’s a little hard to tell but per the picture I would say this is a walleye. No spots and the back end of the dorsal looks black.
The walleye tail fin will also have a bottom white tip, the sauger won’t.

Have to agree with FishBait.
One of the key distinquishing features between the two, if you're fortunate enough to see them side by side, is the black spot between the last two or three dorsal spines. Walleye have it, saugers don't. The white tip on the lower part of the tail fin is another prominent walleye feature...generally more distinctive in mature fish. Also not clearly evident from the photo, but walleye usually have smooth gill plates, sauger have rougher sandpaper like gill plates.
I'd guess a young juvenile walleye as well.

Agree with @FishBait?...
I said it was a Walleye.
I guess he can have this one.

I know there's just about everything occasionally in Nip but Never heard of Sauger being one although a possibility.

Thanks guys. I’d rather it be a sauger to cross another species off the list, but I think it’s safe to say it’s a walleye. The white tipped fins and black skin between the last two spines of the dorsal are pretty clear to me now.