New PB

[bullybass]

Thanks very much. We did not have a scale with us... on shore in the van... so we only got the length and it was 11.5 " approximately... as you can see half his tail is missing... he is a scrapper and has narrowly escaped being eaten by pike likely... old codger!!! hahaha

[moemoe]

Looks like a tasty bluegill to me.....

[Mr Twister]

It is in fact a hybrid BlueGill/Sunfish as I call them Sun Gill's and the Bioligist said it is common with high consentrations of the two; ) and do grow bigger then normal Gill's.

Pauly

[Burning Babies]

Yup, huge hybrid. Wow.

 

As far as keying it out, the blue mottling on the face and orange spots on the lower flanks tell you that it's a pumpkinseed, but it lacks that red mark on the gill flap of a pure pumpkinseed. The coloration on that upper flanks is pretty typical for a bluegill, which is what they usually hybridize with.

Edited June 29, 2009 by Burning Babies