Well I've really been getting into Sunfish lately and am able to id most I catch fairly easily. But when it comes to hybrids I'm clueless. Only one I've really heard of is a Greengill.
I was wondering if any of you could fill me in on some common ones and hook me up with a picture if possible. Thanks.
What are some "common" hybrid Sunfish?
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 08:51 AM
Well I've really been getting into Sunfish lately and am able to id most I catch fairly easily. But when it comes to hybrids I'm clueless. Only one I've really heard of is a Greengill.
I was wondering if any of you could fill me in on some common ones and hook me up with a picture if possible. Thanks.
Though I have no pictures of them around here pumpkingills are most common. Then again my state only has three lepomis.
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 09:56 AM
i have no pictures of my local hybrids I have caught, but I have caught pumpkingills, greenmouths (warmouthxgreen sunny) and what I thought could have been longorangespot (long ear and orange spotted). I have this picture which I have always thought was a cross, but have no clue
To me, it has the mouth of either a green or warmouth, coloring of a pumpkinseed, but there are others that you could see some of in it.
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To me, it has the mouth of either a green or warmouth, coloring of a pumpkinseed, but there are others that you could see some of in it.
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 11:17 AM
first pic maybe longear x bluegill
second pic maybe a green sunfish x bluegill
nafa gallery pic.type in the word hybrid and view all.there are many sunfish hybrid pic to view.
http://gallery.nanfa.org/main.php
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second pic maybe a green sunfish x bluegill
nafa gallery pic.type in the word hybrid and view all.there are many sunfish hybrid pic to view.
http://gallery.nanfa.org/main.php
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 12:06 PM
I see quite a few bluegill x redear in the reservoirs out here.
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 12:25 PM
CatfishTony,
Your picture of the Lepomis megalotis x Lempomis macrochirus is really interesting. Do you have any more pictures of that fish?
Your picture of the Lepomis megalotis x Lempomis macrochirus is really interesting. Do you have any more pictures of that fish?
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 12:30 PM
CatfishTony,
Your picture of the Lepomis megalotis x Lempomis macrochirus is really interesting. Do you have any more pictures of that fish?
sorry no i dont.
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 12:33 PM
Those black pelvics on that first fish (in tony's post) are very curious to me... I know that L. punctatus males have those black pelvics during breeding season... but did not know that others had this characteristic... is that typical for bluegull or longear?
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 12:46 PM
Those black pelvics on that first fish (in tony's post) are very curious to me... I know that L. punctatus males have those black pelvics during breeding season... but did not know that others had this characteristic... is that typical for bluegull or longear?
i only see black pelvic fins in male longear, in early spring to mid summer here in ohio.
some of my tank kept longears keep this color for months then it goes away with less light from near by window.
so would you say this is a hybrid for sure longear and bluegill?
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 12:58 PM
here is another fish from the same area of the nueces river in texas.
is this fish a female hybrid longear x bluegill ?
is this fish a female hybrid longear x bluegill ?
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 01:06 PM
Thanks for the pics and comments. I guess there are a lot of possible crosses out there I'll encounter. Thing is now I believe I'll be able to say something IS a hybrid.
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 04:04 PM
Green x pumpkinseed hybrids are commmon in my area as well as with green x bluegills. Some of these hybrids may not be F1 cross as I have learned out that some hybrids I caught were cross back to the parent species. I did caught Bluegill x Pumpkinseed hybrids from time to time.
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Posted 17 May 2011 - 09:53 PM
Just to add to the whole black pelvic fin thing - I've only seen this jet black fins on male redbreasts before. Of course Michael's latest pic of his spotted sunfish shows that redbreast aren't the only ones.
Cool thread. Over the last year I have snapped so many photos of the sunfishes I encounter mostly because I've noticed a difference between populations lately, AND there is actually more individual variation than I thought.
In all honesty, I have encountered minuscule amounts of hybrids on the river where I work (only catching two hybrids out of several hundreds of sunfish). This at first surprised me since there are six Lepomis species all living in the same river. But I realized that rivers are under way different pressures than ponds, and those pressures may explain why so many ponds have higher rate of capture for these hybrids.
Potential longear X bluegill
Cool thread. Over the last year I have snapped so many photos of the sunfishes I encounter mostly because I've noticed a difference between populations lately, AND there is actually more individual variation than I thought.
In all honesty, I have encountered minuscule amounts of hybrids on the river where I work (only catching two hybrids out of several hundreds of sunfish). This at first surprised me since there are six Lepomis species all living in the same river. But I realized that rivers are under way different pressures than ponds, and those pressures may explain why so many ponds have higher rate of capture for these hybrids.
Potential longear X bluegill
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Posted 18 May 2011 - 08:19 AM
Potential longear X bluegill
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looks like a longear x bluegill to me as well.
and the fish looks to be a male as well
maybe brian aka smallbass will chime in.
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looks like a longear x bluegill to me as well.
and the fish looks to be a male as well
maybe brian aka smallbass will chime in.
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Posted 19 May 2011 - 08:58 PM
CatfishTony,
Your picture of the Lepomis megalotis x Lempomis macrochirus is really interesting. Do you have any more pictures of that fish?
Agree, very intriguing. Also I love how he's staring at your fingers and the hook thinking "errhem...what do you think you're doing with my mouth buddy?...You best be gettin this damn hook out."
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Posted 22 May 2011 - 07:47 AM
Here are a couple bluegill/pumpkinseed that I've caught.
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Posted 23 May 2011 - 12:13 AM
Green x Green. They look like - well, anything you can imagine?
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Posted 23 May 2011 - 09:15 PM
Sandtiger thats some excellent pictures of a combo we dont have down here; I have some really bad pictures of some Longear/Green hybrids, those and Greengills are the only hybrids Ive seen around these parts.
Here are a couple bluegill/pumpkinseed that I've caught.
Edited by wargreen, 23 May 2011 - 09:16 PM.
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