A Warmouth looks more like a rock bass.
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A Warmouth looks more like a rock bass.
ive caught a couple of those and its a bluegill/rock bass cross. i caught some and didnt know what the heck they were so i looked em up and found out. the only place ive ever caught them is this one part of a lake in michigan with a tiny channel and an almost totally overgrown tiny pond. the water gets to shallow for them to reach the channel and theyve gotten stranded in the tiny pond and they cross breed. unfortunately i see an ever decreesing amount of fish in this small part. but its a secret spot and i catch huge catfish in it.
What kind of fish;
Well my friend, that is one nice son-of-a-fish!!!!
Ya gotta love hybrids
Nice catch!
chris
In our neck of the woods bluegill, pumpkinseed. green sunfish, orange breasted sunfish and few others coexists on just about every still water I know. Since they have pretty much identical spawning habbits and needs and good spots can be hard to find we see all kinds of hybrids all the time. In some places we no loger even try to dinstinguish them. That wide group of sish is "scientifically" called : Sunnies. :lol:
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I vote for a Pumpkinseed. That's what they look like around here.
Semper Fly!
Don, I'm going to vote for bluegill/green sunfish hybrid. If I remember what "Aquaman" once wrote, there are recognizable physical differences in the first generation cross that are determined by which species is the father. Wish I could remember what those specific differences were! :lol: These "crosses" also become even more confusing to identify when the offspring mate back with a purebred in subsequent generations.
I'm probably wrong but the blue markings on the gil plates say pumpkinseed hybrid to me.
Tom
I caught something similar to the fish in picture though not as big a couple of weeks ago. It was big enough to get most of a size 6 Sneaky Pete in its mouth. My initial ID was greenie/bluegill. I see quite a few hybrids on my local creek. I think the sunfish get their ideas from the ducks. There are some really strange looking ducks living there. Now the most unusual sunfish I've ever caught were below the dam at Pinchot lake near York, PA. They looked like bluegills except the colors were shades of red, maroon, purple. Made me wonder which way the wind was blowing when Three Mile Island almost melted down. Has anyone every seen that type of coloration in a sunfish.
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Originally Posted by Philly
Yes, I have seen those colors on the flanks of bluegill. Bluegill can have quite a bit of color variation. There are a lot of purple-tinted 'gills around here. Males will have red or orange bellies (not to be confused with red-breasted sunfish) and females will have yellow bellies. Hence bluegills are sometimes called "yellow perch" locally.