Top to bottom: green sunfish (Lepomis cyanella), and a green sunfish x pumpkinseed hybrid
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Huron River
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Posted 05 September 2006 - 11:43 AM
Here are some centrarchids and miscellaneous specimens I photographed during yet another electrofishing trip at Boyden's Creek, part of the Huron River system in Washtenaw Co, Michigan.
Top to bottom: green sunfish (Lepomis cyanella), and a green sunfish x pumpkinseed hybrid
Top to bottom: green sunfish (Lepomis cyanella), and a green sunfish x pumpkinseed hybrid
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Posted 05 September 2006 - 11:46 AM
Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)
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Posted 05 September 2006 - 11:47 AM
Northern hogsucker (Hypentellium nigricans)
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Posted 05 September 2006 - 11:49 AM
Rosyface shiner (Notropis rubellus)
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Posted 05 September 2006 - 09:56 PM
That's not a smallmouth! Are you sure that's a hybrid sunfish? I'm not sure either way but I guess I'm curious to see how your sure (if you are).
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Posted 05 September 2006 - 10:03 PM
I didn't want to be the one to bring this up, but thanks Uland. I think that's a largemouth bass and a straight up pumpkinseed.
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Posted 05 September 2006 - 10:32 PM
Kate, obviously your professors weren't on top of their game that day! 
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Posted 06 September 2006 - 03:35 PM
Oops, I uploaded the wrong file... that is a largemouth 
If you look at the sunfish, you'll notice it has the body shape of a green, but the colors of a p-seed. That was sort of the way the green x redear went in that ditch in Indiana, if I remember correctly. But anyway, my advisor was the guy that ID-ed it 2 years ago, so I'll show the pic to him again tomorrow and see if he is still of the same opinion.
If you look at the sunfish, you'll notice it has the body shape of a green, but the colors of a p-seed. That was sort of the way the green x redear went in that ditch in Indiana, if I remember correctly. But anyway, my advisor was the guy that ID-ed it 2 years ago, so I'll show the pic to him again tomorrow and see if he is still of the same opinion.
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Posted 06 September 2006 - 08:48 PM
I like the term "Non-discript body shape" on the rosy faced silvery thing 
Pretty much fits very well to the way I look at them in a seine outside of spawning........Pretty non-discript.
Pretty much fits very well to the way I look at them in a seine outside of spawning........Pretty non-discript.
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Posted 21 September 2006 - 10:22 AM
I was just browsing through from the NANFA BOD list and saw Huron River... I would take a look at the possibililty the "hybrid" fish is a northern longear, Lepomis megalotis peltastes. What is most particularly convincing is the patterning in the dorsal and anal fins.
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Posted 21 September 2006 - 10:36 AM
Good point Todd. It is difficult to get a good feel for what the fish actually looks like from the picture, but peltastes is certainly a very real possibility. The overall body coloration leans toward lngear as well. Thanks.
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