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Do juvenile redear have red markings?
Stocked hbg and res fingerlings in early spring. Have yet to catch anything with red markings.
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Yes but they are sometimes kind of hard to see till the fish get to about 3". Sometimes you can tell at 2", sometimes not. I caught a couple of 1" RES in traps this last week (at least they came out of a forage pond with supposedly only RES as the sunfish variety) and I would not be able to tell them from a BG.
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Male n female both have the red?
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Red or orange.
Generally speaking dominant looking larger males tend to have bright red tabs and females or younger specimens may have orange but that is not an absolute.
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I'm wondering if the cold killed them off. Is Southern IL Temps. safe for redears? Newer pond is one acre 10-12 ft deepest .clay bottom
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Thanks , pics were helpful as well
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Here is more than you ever wanted to know about RES. RES info and links And here is another thread with various fingerling pictures. Fingerling sunfish
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