http://www.heartlandfishandgame.com/...41_sunny1B.jpg
Thanks for the input!!
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http://www.heartlandfishandgame.com/...41_sunny1B.jpg
Thanks for the input!!
Looks to me like you might just have a bluegill/green sunfish hybrid. The two hybridize pretty readily in water where they are both present. They tend to have the shape of the bluegill, but the growth rate and pugnacity of the green. This one's looks like it has some of the coloring typical of greens as well. I could of course be wrong, but it looks like the hybrids we get around here. The state fishery guys I know say you can count on about 2% of the overall population of these guys to be hybrids when they are both present.
I agree.
There is definitely some greeney in that one, but it's a hybrid of some sort...
Buddy
10 inches, eh? That's pretty sweet. Did you have another RickZ lunch?
Dang, it's rough being back in school!
Pretty looking fish!
How was the mouth? Was it larger than normal? Might be a Warmouth.
Greg
PS: Nice Fish!!!
"Green Sunfish" (?)
http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/fishing/....asp?FishID=50
Nebraska has a great fish and game page.
BassYakker--
Nebraska does indeed have a great site for fish ID. I've used it on several occasions. The problem that can sometimes occur is that almost every species of sunfish can and often will hybridize with any other in the same watershed. We had a heck of a time last summer classifying a critter we found here in one of our city ponds that turned out to be a green sunfish/longear cross. Didn't really look like either of it's parents and definitely wasn't in the guide book. Go figure.
Thanks! I'll bet you guys are correct, that it is a bluegill/green sunfish hybrid.
No, I did not catch it. :( I just saw someone else's post of it and wondered what flavor it is. Now I gotta follow that guy and find out where he fishes. . . . . . .
It can get confusing sometimes with all the different hybrid and mixes, and all the regional names for them. I have a pond I fish that has only Pumpkinseeds in it and there are times they look like 2-3 of the others. In the spring there is no mistaking them, they are very colorful.
Our local Game and Fish will stock the Bluegill/Green Sunfish Hybrid into our Urban System lakes with the idea they will not over populate. This does look like one of them.
Interesting is that with this hybrid will breed but the output is 99% female so only a few generations can survive. I'm not sure I understand the advantage of stocking something that does not survive but I suppose that is the wisdom of government.
If you look at http://flyanglersonline.com/features/re ... rc319.html you will find my article about Urban Fishing where I refer to these fish with a bit of over dramatization but not far off from the truth. :lol:
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.
I wondered where that "yellow perch" misnomer came from. This is a yellow perch caught by yours truly:Quote:
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...83007perch.jpg
Sorry, didn't mean to highjack the thread, just wanted to make that point.
Joe
Joe, that's an actual, proper yellow perch. But you already knew that.
Ed
Here is a pic of a very colorful lot.
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What a gorgeous batch of longears!! Great picture.
Sweet picture mashtom!!!!
You can hijack a thread with a photo like that ANYTIME you want!! Very beautiful mess of fish. I like seeing the different colors and shades that the fish show. Really nice! Looks like a really fun morning at the water.
I need to get out and do that more than I do. :(
Bluegill family
I am from upstate SC. Most of the time there is no point in trying to identify those sunny hybrids. I would identenify that fish as some cute crazy bream. Then I might try to figure out how to catch more that size. :D
A Pumpkinseed on steroids?
I hear you. In one pond, it's just about all bluegills, but in the creeks and other ponds, the hybrids are everywhere so they're all just bream to me.Quote:
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