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 Re: Warmouth and Hybrid Bluegill????
[Re: Hook in Finger]
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04/13/10 12:06 AM
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crappieking95
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[quote=Meadowlark]The second one looks like a Warmouth to me. The first one, that is one interesting fish. Hybrid BG take on a lot of different colors and markings but I haven't seen one like that.
This may sound crazy but it looks like it may have black crappie in it along with some kind of sunfish...very interesting markings.
Does the water body have crappie in it? [/quote
+1 i see the black crappie in it I see a little white crappie in it, look at the vertical striped lines.
Last edited by crappieking95; 04/13/10 12:08 AM.
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Re: Warmouth and Hybrid Bluegill????
[Re: crappieking95]
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04/13/10 01:26 AM
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RiverBassin
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Thanks for the replies everyone. I thought the second fish was a warmouth but the first one is just plain wierd!
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Re: Warmouth and Hybrid Bluegill????
[Re: sharkfisher]
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04/14/10 05:50 AM
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big daddy double digits
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The first one is the real puzzler... The second one is almost certainly a warmouth. The first one I think is a redear sunfish. The books say the opercular flap ("ear")on a redear can just have a light colored margin (neither specifically red or orange). I have never seen one myself, but there you go. I'm a fisheries biologist and must admit that because many sunfish can cross naturally that we usually assume a hard to identify individual is a hybrid. That is most often an easy out. In the wild hybridization is much more uncommon than misidentification... Anyway hope that helps. The main reason I don't suspect hybridization is the utter lack of a black spot on the rear portion of the fish's dorsal fin. have you considered a white crappie hybrid because all of my white crappie i catch if in the summer i keep them tied up to a dock under the surface 1-2 feet they turn black and get a ton of splotches of black between the normal lines of spots, and if the bluegill there is in shallow water it could be doing exactly what the crappie i've caught in the past have done because they're usually down in the bottom in about twenty feet, and i'd do an experiment the next time you get the bluegill like in the pic and set it i deep water for an hour or two and see if the spots in between the vertical lines go away that always happens when i have a white crappie do this and they change back when put in deeper water.
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Re: Warmouth and Hybrid Bluegill????
[Re: PalmPilot]
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04/14/10 02:18 PM
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breambuster
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Trust me, the top fish is a red ear/ bluegill cross. In east Texas they call them Chinquapins. A real good fish to have in Ponds. You can't buy them as far as I know but they cross breed naturaly.
Bottom fish is a Warmouth, and a very large one. Absolutely!! I have those fish in my ponds also. I have stocked redears, bluegills and coppernose in the same pond, and have come up with the EXACTLY colored fish as the one in the first picture. No crappie species in the first fish at all. Second fish is a warmouth or goggle-eye.
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Re: Warmouth and Hybrid Bluegill????
[Re: StephenB]
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04/17/10 11:41 PM
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Trust me, the top fish is a red ear/ bluegill cross. In east Texas they call them Chinquapins. A real good fish to have in Ponds. You can't buy them as far as I know but they cross breed naturaly.
Bottom fish is a Warmouth, and a very large one. +2 +3 
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Re: Warmouth and Hybrid Bluegill????
[Re: Quicksilver]
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04/20/10 04:12 PM
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Jukebox
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Yeah I vote redear/bluegill hybrid.
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Re: Warmouth and Hybrid Bluegill????
[Re: Jukebox]
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04/20/10 09:59 PM
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roadtrip
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Here is a redear. Note the vertical stripes and compare with the op's picture 
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