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Need help with ID'ing #408532 04/19/15 10:23 PM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 939 minnesota M mnfish OP Hall of Fame Lunker
OP mnfish Hall of Fame Lunker M Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 939 minnesota	Picture 1 Left pic : Right Pic: Picture 2 Thank you

Re: Need help with ID'ing mnfish #408534 04/19/15 10:34 PM
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CJBS2003 Ambassador Field Correspondent Hall of Fame Lunker C Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 10,458 Likes: 2 Earth	Top photo: Top fish, GSF, bottom fish, BG. Bottom photo: Top fish, hybrid, exactly which species, I am not confident. Bottom fish, GSF. Last edited by Bill Cody; 04/21/15 01:25 PM. Reason: Changed GSH to GSF

Re: Need help with ID'ing mnfish #408535 04/19/15 10:35 PM
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CJBS2003 Ambassador Field Correspondent Hall of Fame Lunker C Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 10,458 Likes: 2 Earth	Did these come from your pond or another body of water? Do you know what species of sunfish are present in the body of water they were caught?

Re: Need help with ID'ing mnfish #408539 04/19/15 11:10 PM
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OP mnfish Hall of Fame Lunker M Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 939 minnesota	They were trapped from one of my ponds. BGs, GSF are both present. No hybrids were stocked.

Re: Need help with ID'ing mnfish #408542 04/19/15 11:19 PM
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CJBS2003 Ambassador Field Correspondent Hall of Fame Lunker C Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 10,458 Likes: 2 Earth	The hybrid reminds of a GSFxLES hybrid. Is there any way fish species can enter the pond from a nearby stream or migrate up an outflow during high water?

Re: Need help with ID'ing mnfish #408557 04/20/15 07:16 AM
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 13,748 Likes: 295 Somerset, PA Sunil Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker
Sunil Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 13,748 Likes: 295 Somerset, PA	CJ, I think you mean "GSF" as opposed to "GSH" in your first post. 'GSH' is Golden Shiner, IIRC. Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."

Re: Need help with ID'ing mnfish #408582 04/20/15 10:10 AM
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snrub S Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 6,088 Likes: 96 SE Kansas	The top fish in picture 2 sure has a bright red eye. Looks like maybe a little red dot on the ear tab too? John I subscribe to Pond Boss Magazine

Re: Need help with ID'ing snrub #408590 04/20/15 11:39 AM
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: snrub The top fish in picture 2 sure has a bright red eye. Looks like maybe a little red dot on the ear tab too? Maybe a warmouth cross? Be Brave Enough to Suck at Something New!

Re: Need help with ID'ing Bill D. #408592 04/20/15 12:09 PM
Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 275 illinois P poppy65
poppy65 P Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 275 illinois	I stocked HBG, BG, and Redear and I get crosses that look like all of those but I'm not sure what the crosses are. It seems the GSF genes are pretty dominate in mine. Caught the biggest one so far last week. 11 and 1/2 inches long and very well filled out but long bodied instead of rounded like a bluegill. Those crosses with GSF genes will bite when nothing else will and they eat a lot of Aquamax. About all of them have red on their ear lobes and yellow coloring in their fins.

Re: Need help with ID'ing mnfish #408602 04/20/15 12:50 PM
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 21,499 Likes: 266 Miss. E ewest Moderator Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker
ewest Moderator Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker E Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 21,499 Likes: 266 Miss.	What a lepomis mix ! First and last look mostly GSF , second mostly BG and the third is a mutt. Very unusual patterning on #3.Has GSF mouth and fins , possible BG side bars with odd patterning. If sample is by fishing then one would expect a high % of GSF as they are the most aggressive at feeding.

Re: Need help with ID'ing mnfish #408614 04/20/15 01:35 PM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 939 minnesota M mnfish OP Hall of Fame Lunker
OP mnfish Hall of Fame Lunker M Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 939 minnesota	I am glad to read these posts because I was beginning to really doubt myself at identifying lepomis. BG and GSF no problem but we have all these other ones that I can't identify. I love the term mutt BG!

Re: Need help with ID'ing Sunil #408675 04/21/15 01:35 AM
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CJBS2003 Ambassador Field Correspondent Hall of Fame Lunker C Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 10,458 Likes: 2 Earth	Originally Posted By: Sunil CJ, I think you mean "GSF" as opposed to "GSH" in your first post. 'GSH' is Golden Shiner, IIRC. Yup, you are correct.

Re: Need help with ID'ing mnfish #409527 04/28/15 02:58 PM
Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 22 WI M mthompson
mthompson M Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 22 WI	#3 could have Warmouth genes...warmouth do have olive drab stripes on their operculum, and reddish/orange eyes (sometimes). All Lepomis are pretty loose with their mates in confined spaces....Greenies are especially lecherous. Best regards, MT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. - Psalm 69:1

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