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bluegill crossed with bass


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#1 Guest_Sunfish catcher 321_*

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Posted 10 June 2014 - 04:54 PM

Do bass and bluegill interbreed. I saw a youtube video were a person claimed to have the hybrid. I don't have the link.

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Posted 10 June 2014 - 06:45 PM

No they don't interbreed.

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Posted 10 June 2014 - 07:08 PM

That "hybrid" looks like a smallmouth to me. Seeing the title I was expecting a rock bass as they sort of look the part.

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Posted 10 June 2014 - 07:24 PM

The comments on youtube are somewhat entertaining.

No, can't be a smallmouth. What is this crazy creature from the depths?

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Posted 10 June 2014 - 08:23 PM

It looks not unlike a warmouth.

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Posted 11 June 2014 - 07:39 AM

It looks not unlike a warmouth.

That is the general consensus among the commenters on U Tube.

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Posted 11 June 2014 - 08:18 AM

Yeah, it's impressive, crowd-sourcing a fish ID on YouTube came to the right answer.

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Posted 11 June 2014 - 08:35 AM

Rock bass is a local name for green sunfish, rock bass and warmouth. So I am going with "rock bass" pretty much covers all possibilities. :biggrin:

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Posted 13 June 2014 - 07:26 PM

I especially like the Blair Witch-like camera work...

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 10:23 PM

Bluegill are commonly hybridized with green sunfish for sport fishing. Green sunfish have a mouth and body style that is easily mistaken for a bass, and as skipjack said, they are sometimes called bass.

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 10:23 PM

I can't see the video though, so I'm not sure if it is that.

#12 Sean Phillips

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Posted 23 June 2014 - 09:45 AM

Bluegill are commonly hybridized with green sunfish for sport fishing. Green sunfish have a mouth and body style that is easily mistaken for a bass, and as skipjack said, they are sometimes called bass.


The first time I caught a green sunfish I was still getting into natives so I couldn't ID it. I figured it was a pumpkinseed X LMB hybrid so for a long time I just called them "blue bass". I'd search through the PFBC's sunfish I'd guide for hours and never find and drawing that matched the fish. Well one day I saw a drawing of a green sunfish on the fish commission's page and I wanted to see what they actually look like (outside of an illustration) and was surprised to see they look nothing like the commission portrayed them as.

Here's what the commission gave as a green sunfish picture:

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Posted 23 June 2014 - 09:50 AM

Looks like a big Warmouth to me.




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