Dang F4L you are hooked up! I feel pretty fortunate I have the pond I get to fish.

BG

Thanks for all the replies, more great information. I'll keep posting them. I'm learning an enormous amount by doing so. Obviously, pure strain native Bluegill are a much smaller species of fish.

Lol yes sir ck. Those seven are all next to eachother and the lake right next to them. I guess I am pretty lucky. Some are scattered around but in all Im able to fish quite a few private ponds . You should post pics from the one you fish! Its not the amount of places you have to fish that mattters, just how much you get out fish what youve got!

Thanks Jamie for posting all the fish in question, I enjoy this thread very much!

Not a Perch

OK, I caught this one today. Is this a Green X Red Ear Hybrid? It has the blue lines on the face, dark top and yellow bottom. The second picture is a confirmed red ear.

Man, really wish the picture was a little clearer. It looks like a Green except that it looks like it has the ear of a Red Ear. Greens typically have a purplish ear but this one appears red and white. I want to say that its a Hybrid because of that ear but due to photo clarity, I cant give a 100 percent answer.

Greens have orange tipped pelvic fins. I don't see that in the top pic. Looks like a weird Warmouth to me.

Bottom is a RE

Coppernose BG have the genetics to grow larger, and generally they do, but a lot if it has to do with the nutrients and food sources available. Our pure strain natives can get huge all on their own given the right conditions.

Somewhere if i can find it, I've got a picture of 2 fish from Fairfield - one CNBG and one native BG. Both are huge, but from the size of that native, you'd never know they were supposed to be smaller than their clown faced cousins from Alabama and Florida.

Not all Greens have orange tipped pelvics. Some have orange, white, yellow or a combination and in most cases its on the pelvics, anal, caudal, and dorsal fins. But sometimes they have no color on their fins. I believe they are female when they lack the coloring on their fins but Im not sure. I have one in my tank. Definately not a Warmouth though.

Thanks, that was my thought as well. Most of the greenies I catch in the golf course ponds don't have that coloring. The blue striations on the face are usually a tell for me. When it was in the water I could see it had a lot of greenie in it but new something was a miss. I have also caught confirmed red ear X bluegill mix in this pond.

Sorry for the picture, my lens on my camera phone was stained for some reason.

Its alright, about the lens. But seeing a picture with good clarity is needed for the best possible identification. I actually posted a picture of a Green without the colorful fins in my "Pond Bite Has Been Hot" thread. Keep em comin Jamie!

You're right, I should not have been specific to just orange, but I have never caught one that didn't some color mentioned above on the fins to ID part or whole green.
They could be out there but I have never seen or caught one, was just going off my experience.

Yes sir. Your experience is very much appreciated! We have to share our experience with one another so as to help each other out! ....I think Ill go fishing now lol!

Lucky you! Im having surgery in the morning and missing the bite

Best of luck and prayers for you on your surgery.