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Hybrid sunfish from Lake Huron

Started by Guest_MichaelAngelo_* , Jul 27 2014 08:44 PM

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#1 Guest_MichaelAngelo_*

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Posted 27 July 2014 - 08:44 PM

Caught on the shores of Georgian bay on Lake Huron. Shallow water, about 5 feet of depth, under a fallen tree.

Just curious as to what hybridization this is. Pumpkinseed and bluegill hybrid? Northern and bluegill hybrid?

Aside from this fish I was catching bluegills.

Doesn't look like pure pumpkinseed to me.

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#2 Guest_Gavinswildlife_*

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Posted 27 July 2014 - 08:53 PM

Looks like a bluegill-pumpkinseed.

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#3 Guest_Sunfish catcher 321_*

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Posted 27 July 2014 - 10:07 PM

The teal looks like norther.

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#4 Guest_Gavinswildlife_*

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Posted 27 July 2014 - 11:43 PM

Looking at it more closely it could be an orangespotted sunfish.

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#5 Guest_butch_*

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Posted 28 July 2014 - 09:10 AM

Looks like Orangespotted x bluegill hybrid or possible orangespotted x pumpkinseed hybrid that I sampled out of lakes that hold highest populations of orangespotted sunfish.

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#6 Guest_centrarchid_*

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Posted 28 July 2014 - 11:24 AM

I have made crosses of all above. Looks to have bluegill in it. May be a F2 or backcrosses any or some combination of crosses listed above. Gut makes me think pumpkin in it as well but does not look like a first generation cross.

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#7 Isaac Szabo

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Posted 28 July 2014 - 01:33 PM

That's a neat-looking fish.

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#8 Guest_NateTessler13_*

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 06:43 AM

That is a very cool looking hybrid. I think it's a bluegill x pumpkinseed, at least that's what I'd write down on the data sheet if I collected it during a fish survey.

I haven't spent much time in the Lake Huron drainage, but I imagine the two species of Lepomis you're most likely to encounter in the lake are bluegill and pumpkinseed. So, odds are it's a combination of those two.

Some hybrid photos for comparison:
Orangespotted sunfish x bluegill
http://gallery.nanfa...espottedhybrid/

Pumpkinseed x green sunfish
http://gallery.nanfa...13_ NT.JPG.html

Bluegill x green sunfish
http://gallery.nanfa...irusxcyanellus/

Orangespotted sunfish x green sunfish
http://gallery.nanfa...isandcyanellus/

Bluegill x redear sunfish
http://gallery.nanfa...earandbluegill/