Caught these fish the other day while fishing with Fred "Rionator". We both agreed that these were a cross between a Green and a Bluegill. Did some checking and found that there is a cross between a female Green Sunfish and a Male Bluegill that is called a Georgia Giant. These fish are some super fighters and were caught on both Berkley Power Worms and live night crawlers. Fish were caught on a local private pond and were released to fight again. Been getting a few of these each time I fish that pond. The pond mainly has Copper Nose Bluegill.

Banker, the standard hybrid bluegill is a cross between a male bluegill and a female green sunfish. Supposedly the Georgia giants also had one or more other sunfish species mixed in, but there's not a lot of reliable info out there on them as the originator of them was not very forthcoming with info. Some people have grown them pretty big, others have had bad experiences with them. Pure-strain coppernose will get bigger with proper management.

Looks like dinner!

Now that's what it was :P I have caught plenty of these at calaveras lake as well as dunlap .

Thanks guys for the replies. "Tennessee Pond Manager": Thanks for the information. You are right there is really not much information on em. "Tun3R": Learn something new every time.

What beautiful sunfish hybrids. Way to go guys.

Thanks "Dhogdog" for the reply. Yes Sir they have some beautiful colors!

Nice ones!
I've got a friend that has a pond in Cuero that he stocked with hybrid bluegill that he got from a hatchery several years back that looked like those. We had a blast catching them using a fly rod.
Unfortunately his ponds were victims of the severe drought we had a couple summers ago.

Very nice Banker ,ive caught some out of the Cibolo that had a similiar look.

I read about them years ago .....called em something like that
we tried a few similar hybrids in one of our ponds ....
they wasn't too terribly impressive for us .....
those look like nice ones right there though
KABOOM

Thanks guys for the replies. The pond is in very good shape. It's deep and has some really nice grass beds as well as some gravel bottom areas. The Green/Bluegill mix fish are in super condition and all of em are good size. (Great Fighters on Ultralight). The pond as mentioned before is loaded with nice Copper nose Bluegill. Just my two cents I think some bigger bass and a couple of gar would really help the quality of the Bluegill. I don't think there are that many predator fish in the pond. A lot of gills need to be taken out.



Still is a super place to fish when the opportunity is there!

If the owner of that private pond will let you take some out that would make for some fine eating!
That was the problem with that pond I was catching them in near Cuero. The owner didn't want us keeping any of the fish, and then about a year or so later the pond dried up with the drought. What was sad, was that the little creek that fed it quit running, and that was the first time in many, many years that it had dried up.
Hope he has better luck with his pond!

Pretty fish

+1. Nice Fish.

Beautiful fish!