Are we to assign any substance to the ideas of geographic diversity, regional adaptation, and local familiarity?
Good points Tony. Up here in our natural lakes the redears are pretty drab compared to their southern counterparts as in this one. Granted it's probably a female but the males are this drab too.
Here's a more typical redear male coloration, that was, I believe, posted by Bruce Condello:
Our northern natural lake redears, that I see, don't have the distinct markings of the above fish.
