What Do You Think Of My New Bluegill?
#1 Guest_JDS_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 06:05 PM
#2 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 06:21 PM
Longeared red breasted pumpkin gill. Very rare!
#3 Guest_ashtonmj_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 06:30 PM
#4 Guest_sandtiger_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 08:41 PM
#5 Guest_fishlvr_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 08:43 PM
Maybe a bluegill x redbreast. That would be the only hybrid I would guess.
#6 Guest_ashtonmj_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 08:55 PM
#7 Guest_fishlvr_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 09:01 PM
#8 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:03 PM
#9 Guest_Brooklamprey_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:13 PM
Look at those pectoral fins....
#10 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:32 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.Why would that just not be a Longear??? Does not look all that wrong for one.
Look at those pectoral fins....
#11 Guest_drewish_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:57 PM
#12 Guest_teleost_*
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.
#13 Guest_Brooklamprey_*
Posted 22 August 2007 - 11:13 PM
#14 Guest_fishlvr_*
Posted 23 August 2007 - 05:56 AM
#15 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 23 August 2007 - 07:52 AM
#16 Guest_NateTessler13_*
Posted 23 August 2007 - 08:41 AM
#17 Guest_teleost_*
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
Dagnabbit! Then what is it?not a pumpkinseed
#18 Guest_edbihary_*
Posted 23 August 2007 - 09:26 AM
JDS, where did you catch it? And here it comes: update your profile with your location information. Everyone knew I had to say it
#19 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 23 August 2007 - 09:30 AM
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.
#20 Guest_smbass_*
Posted 23 August 2007 - 09:36 AM
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