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This fish challenges your intelect.

Started by Guest_nativecajun_* , Feb 01 2007 07:12 PM

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#1 Guest_nativecajun_*

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 07:12 PM

Caught in a stocked pond in Lafayette Louisiana. I think it is neat but also think it is a hybrid. What do you think? The reason I know it was a stocked pond or at least figure it was. We caught blue gill just for fun. This is the only fish out of the many many many blue gill we caught. As soon as I pulled him out of the water (hook and line) I told my brother this looks like a hybrid I will keep this one. And every where else we went fishing that day we did not catch one fish. In this pond we must have caught 80 or more. They were starving with no forage. If you want me to prepare a close up of a portion or part of this fish let me know. I will go back to the original file and do so.

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#2 Guest_hmt321_*

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 07:25 PM

red ear or pumpkin seed

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#3 Guest_nativecajun_*

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 07:27 PM

A closer Look.

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#4 Guest_nativecajun_*

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 07:32 PM

red ear or pumpkin seed

I still have him in my tank. I may try for a better photo tomorow. Try to get his fins to spread out. This is a neat challange.

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#5 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 07:44 PM

I still have him in my tank. I may try for a better photo tomorow. Try to get his fins to spread out. This is a neat challange.

Redear probably, or maybe one of the commecial breeds of bluegill such as "copperhead". It's definitely not a pumpkinseed. The first identification of warmouth in: 1; 2; 3.......

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#6 Guest_nativecajun_*

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 07:49 PM

Copper Head?? We were catching a lot of them that looked like something I have never seen. Actually all the rest. They looked like gold bluegill. Dorsal spot and all. Sorry I do not have a photo of one of those. But definatly the others were some form of comercially bred bluegill strain. I think this one looks more in the squash family than anything else. (pumkinseed) But I know what you are sayiing about warmouth. But definatly not a pure if it has warmouth in it at all. I won't go to the trouble of posting another young warmouth. OK I wasn't but I did. I went through the trouble. Look and compare to the O-spot.

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#7 Guest_nativecajun_*

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 08:28 PM

I am definatly keeping him around. I am recievine two six inch grass pickerel tomorrow. This guy is in the forty breeder that I am going to put the pickerel in. Lots of cover and a huge "fake driftwood log" with large spots for him to hide. What do you think. Will the pickerel bother him or he the pickerel or not at all. Will they live together like angels?

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#8 Guest_arnoldi_*

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 08:39 PM

Hard for me to tell without seeing the fins. They are some of the best ways to ID imo.

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#9 Guest_sandtiger_*

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 10:45 PM

Hard for me to tell without seeing the fins. They are some of the best ways to ID imo.

I'm leaning towards warmouth or green/bluegill hybrid...I may be totally off but from just looking at the picture that's my best guess.

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#10 Guest_dredcon_*

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 11:55 PM

I'm leaning towards warmouth or green/bluegill hybrid...I may be totally off but from just looking at the picture that's my best guess.

I see greensunfish/bluegill mixes in lots of stocked ponds down here.

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#11 Guest_nativecajun_*

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Posted 02 February 2007 - 09:49 AM

I see greensunfish/bluegill mixes in lots of stocked ponds down here.

Now this makes a little bit of sense. His mouth is fairly large never looked at that angle. He is definatly an interesting little fella!! I think that is what it must be. I think if it had the temperment of both of those fish with the size of a large blue gill I better be careful what I stick it with. With that big mouth and all. So I may ending up not keeping if he is not going to be nice to my other fish. I think I will let him go in my local stream today. (gotcha) Not really but I may see if someone wants an intergrade.