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You are a RES catching son of a gun Shorty.
Gonna be a while on the video, if I ever get it done (edited). The Goldwing and my wife convinced me we needed to go to Boston to visit friends and then we may jaunt over to Seattle to visit some other frineds, so may be on the road for a while. Miss the pond, but heading to ride the "Tail of the Dragon" in Tennesee this afternoon - if the rain will stay away. Video is back home on computer.


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A few more from today. I did see three 6" RES in 6-12" of water today while checking for fry. One was flaring its gills and pushing another one out of the way.

Likely small male





Likely male





Likely female





Likely female (note, this one has few gas bubbles in its fins) does not appear to be gravid.





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Lots of little GSH in the pond now, catching RES has really slowed down but here is a very chunky likely male from tonight. I am pretty sure the major part of my RES spawn is done but they may be a few stragglers.






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Nice pics Shorty !
















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Well that was interesting!


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Ta quote Harry Carry, "HOLY COW" !!! Man after all those happy B-day wishes and it takes a post like Sexting Redear sunfish ta get a response. Happy ta see ya chime in again.


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I haven't been on for months! My computer wouldn't let me! I got birthday wishes????


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How do I find that?


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Bruce, as ya know I'm terrible with searches but ya might try searchin the date. The site has been real busy as of late so maybe bringin this up will entice a link to it from one of the large brains.
Probably shouldn't ask but ya sure it was yer puter, not the laughing gas or tin foil hat?
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Tired of RES pictures? Seen enough?

Likely male from last night.





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Nice work, Shorty. Is it post-spawn yet?


"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"

If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
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I would call it post spawn now, there may be a few RES spawning over the next several months but the majority of my RES should be done.

I have lots of very small (4-5 mm) unidentifiable fry in the water now that that I believe are RES, they are smaller and look different than the GSH fry I have been seeing for the last month. smile

Surface temps are close to 84 degrees now.

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Nice job Ben. Ta hell with the Red ears, lets pick on Condello !!!


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Ta hell with the Red ears


Blasphemy! shocked

We can pick on "Caitlyn" in her B-Day thread. grin



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Thanks for these posts Shorty. I need to get to work catching a few of mine and posting pictures for everyone to eval.


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Please do post some pictures if you can, mine are getting a lot tougher to catch, especially the bigger ones. The only time I have been seeing my bigger RES lately is when I am feeding pellets. I am actually surprised by the number of RES and SMB that are eating pellets off the surface this year.

Here are a couple of smaller ones from today.

Likely female:






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Shorty,

Love the photos. RES are pretty little fish and learning more about sexing them is interesting to me.

I was shocked and pleasantly surprised to catch TWO res on top water poppers last night. I posted a pic in the photo gallery a bit ago. I can only surmise that they are picking the snails off the log jam that is just sub surface and thought my bug was a crunchy goodie. Maybe you could give some top water stuff a try smile

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I have been thinking going top water and using a fly. There are a lot of damselfly and dragonfly laying eggs on the surface right now and most of this years fry also seem to be near the surface.



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Let us know how it works, my two were on big bass bugs while fly fishing. One was 11 inches, the other 10.
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A couple of nice males tonight on a sinking fly in the spot where I pellet feed every night. I also caught a 15" SMB too. smile

Male #1





10"+ Male #2





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Those are great looking fish!


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Two likely females from tonight, both caught on AM600 wedged in my micro jig. wink

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#2 - flopped out of my hand before I could get a picture of the urogenital opening, but it looked just like the first fish.



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Shorty, you try frying up some fish eggs yet?

Those fish look female to me, also.


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Not yet but I will, these two might not be gravid, just fat from eating pellets. grin



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