Male or Female gill?

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Re: Male or Female gill? Bill D. #396357 01/03/15 10:21 PM
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stickem' Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 977 Likes: 1 S.E. Texas, Polk Co.	Originally Posted By: Bill D. Charlie, We definitely need to get together and go fishing and eating! Bill, I'm in!!! ...when in doubt...set the hook...

Re: Male or Female gill? stickem' #396358 01/03/15 10:28 PM
Joined: Oct 2014 Posts: 6,080 Likes: 1 Boone County Illinois Bill D.
Bill D. Joined: Oct 2014 Posts: 6,080 Likes: 1 Boone County Illinois	Originally Posted By: stickem' Originally Posted By: Bill D. Charlie, We definitely need to get together and go fishing and eating! Bill, I'm in!!! Hey! We can invite Pat along. He always has a good supply of Falstaff on hand to make the beer batter for the fish fry!....We may have to wrestle him to the ground and pry a bottle out of his fingers though! Last edited by Bill D.; 01/03/15 10:31 PM. Be Brave Enough to Suck at Something New!

Re: Male or Female gill? Bill D. #396359 01/03/15 10:41 PM
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Pat Williamson P Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 3,952 Likes: 184 Oakwood,Texas	Bill is back!! Mmm beer batter fish! I'm in. Pat W

Re: Male or Female gill? Cecil Baird1 #396360 01/03/15 11:44 PM
Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 20,043 Likes: 1 Northeastern Indiana Cecil Baird1 OP Hall of Fame Lunker
OP Cecil Baird1 Hall of Fame Lunker Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 20,043 Likes: 1 Northeastern Indiana	Bruce, Bill, It seems the male coppernose and coppernose intergrades seem to have more of a platter profile than the northern strain. Or is this not necessarily the case? Interestingly at the risk of repeating myself I had a situation happen that surprised me. After one of my trophy pond drainings where I had females escape a cage and breed with the males, which I did not want (breeding takes place under controlled conditions in another smaller pond), I saved several hundred fingerlings for an Amish friend for his new pond. I didn't want them as part of my stock as they didn't have the robust look of the ones from my brood pond that are fed after swim up with artifical feed. I believed they would be inferior. Turns out they made up for lost time in their new home and his biggest one of 1 lb. 12 oz. eclipses my biggest one of 1 lb. 7 oz. I think I may have shared this with Bruce and he has said he too has seen them catch up in growth and relative weight. If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.

Re: Male or Female gill? Cecil Baird1 #396507 01/05/15 11:55 AM
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ewest Moderator Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker E Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 21,490 Likes: 265 Miss.	See this for BG sex id. ewest - your link does not 'work'. Here is the preeminent thread to see about Bill , Bruce and Cecil's PB mag articles. See Cody's note at the bottom. http://www.pondboss.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=103883&fpart=1 Cody Note: The text for these pictures are in a three article series in Pond Boss Magazine 2006: issues of Mar-Apr (article #6), May-Jun (#8), and Jul-Aug (#7). Males are described primarily in Mar-Apr and females in May-Jun. See this link for description of each article. http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=92481#Post92481 Last edited by Bill Cody; 01/05/15 05:11 PM.