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What Do You Think Of My New Bluegill?

Started by Guest_JDS_* , Aug 22 2007 06:05 PM

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#1 Guest_JDS_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 06:05 PM

Shot with DSC-S60 at 2007-08-22

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#2 Guest_Skipjack_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 06:21 PM

I see the "H" word coming again.

Longeared red breasted pumpkin gill. Very rare!

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#3 Guest_ashtonmj_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 06:30 PM

I don't think it's a bluegill at all

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#4 Guest_sandtiger_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 08:41 PM

I think it has bluegill in it. I would say bluegill/longear.

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#5 Guest_fishlvr_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 08:43 PM

I'd say bull redbreast. I've caught nesting males that look like that. Although, the "ear" flap doesn't look long enough...

Maybe a bluegill x redbreast. That would be the only hybrid I would guess.

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#6 Guest_ashtonmj_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 08:55 PM

Until JDS makes a second post we don't know where the fish is from. For example, red breast might not be an option before the H word gets thrown out.

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#7 Guest_fishlvr_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 09:01 PM

That's true. I was just saying what it looked like to me. I could be completely wrong.

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#8 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:03 PM

That sure ain't no bluegill. Redbreast works better than anything else from the one picture, unless we enter the gameroom of perceived hybrids.

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#9 Guest_Brooklamprey_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:13 PM

Why would that just not be a Longear??? Does not look all that wrong for one.
Look at those pectoral fins....

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#10 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:32 PM

Why would that just not be a Longear??? Does not look all that wrong for one.
Look at those pectoral fins....

I thought about longear, but the body is too round and there doesn't seem to be enough blue spangling on the body, at least in my humble opinion.

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#11 Guest_drewish_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:57 PM

I see a male pumpkinseed.

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#12 Guest_teleost_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:57 PM

I thought about longear, but the body is too round and there doesn't seem to be enough blue spangling on the body, at least in my humble opinion.

I tend to agree that the fish lacks the number and volume of vermiculation for longear. I'd also have to say the ear isn't the right length for such a large longear specimen either.

This fish appears to be a Pumkinseed to me. If I caught this fish at home, I could only say it lacks the soft dorsal pigmentation I usually see (but sometimes absent or faint in large fish). Other than that, standard pumkinseed to me.

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#13 Guest_Brooklamprey_*

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 11:13 PM

Yeah actually Pumpkinseed fits quite well..

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#14 Guest_fishlvr_*

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Posted 23 August 2007 - 05:56 AM

I agree too. Now that you mentioned it, it does look like a pumpkinseed.

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#15 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 23 August 2007 - 07:52 AM

Pumpkinseed?? You can believe what you want...

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#16 Guest_NateTessler13_*

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Posted 23 August 2007 - 08:41 AM

not a pumpkinseed

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#17 Guest_teleost_*

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Posted 23 August 2007 - 09:20 AM

Pumpkinseed?? You can believe what you want...

I'm not calling that thing a bluegill, longear or redbreast so I guess I'll have to believe pumkinseed for now :biggrin:

not a pumpkinseed

Dagnabbit! Then what is it?

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#18 Guest_edbihary_*

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Posted 23 August 2007 - 09:26 AM

Wild-ass guess: pumpkinseed x redbreast.

JDS, where did you catch it? And here it comes: update your profile with your location information. Everyone knew I had to say it ;-)

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#19 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 23 August 2007 - 09:30 AM

It's a redbreast. It lacks the golden brown body color of a pumpkinseed, and has the right, relatively rounded body shape for a redbreast rather than p-seed. P-seeds also have a longer, sharper snout, at least in my humble experience with p-seeds in New England.

Even more precisely, I think it's a redbreast male under the influence of large amounts of 11-ketotestosterone (androgen specific to teleosts [not Uland]) bringing out the colors and "Barry Bonds" effect on the body which somebody else had mentioned earlier.

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#20 Guest_smbass_*

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Posted 23 August 2007 - 09:36 AM

This fish is without any doubt to me a hybrid. The very deep body and deep rusty red breast say large male bluegill, I see bluegill in this fish before anything else. As for the other half I agree with Uland that there is not enough vermiculations for it to be part longear and the opercle would be longer if it were part redbreast. The mouth is too small for it to be part green but the lines on the cheeks say pumpkinseed along with the slight hint of a little red on the back of the opercle flap. So thats my educated guess... Bluegill X Pumpkinseed.