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[Chasmodes]

I went fishing with Bob Bock yesterday and we caught some beautiful longear sunfish. In addition, we caught a bunch of green, bluegill and redbreast sunfish. We even had a guy bike by that told us that he was happy to hear that we caught a nice variety of Lepomis!!! Of course, that generated further discussion    These are some of the most beautiful that we've seen to date along the Potomac watershed.

 

[AquaHobbyist123]

Dang, those are beautiful! Potomac watershed's on my list of places to visit! Want to also see some Potomac Sculpin.

[Chasmodes]

Thanks Thomas! Let me know when you want to visit.

[Chasmodes]

I was out in my boat in the middle of the Potomac fishing for smallmouth bass and my buddy Glenn caught this guy, in pretty strong current, on a tube jig. It's a male longear with beautiful spawning coloration. What was interesting was his bed must have been close by, and there is a pretty fair amount of current there, not what I would have expected a longear spawning site to be. I've always caught this species along shoreline eddies in calm water or in creek mouths, never in the middle of the river. There was a huge bolder in 7' of water with a fallen tree wedged into it, and that's where this fish was. Pretty interesting, huh?

 

And here's where he caught him, under the boat...

[ShadetreeIchthyologist]

Beautiful fish! Do you know how deep the spawning site was? I've heard that sunfish will spawn in deeper waters if the light and substrate allow if pressure is high.

[Chasmodes]

It was 7' deep where we caught it, but not sure exactly if it was on a bed or not. The water was pretty clear, but I couldn't see the bottom in that deep of water.