Quote Originally Posted by EdD
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 with 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:



Sorry, didn't mean to highjack the thread, just wanted to make that point.

Joe