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Originally posted by Bruce Condello:
2. Male bluegill. Just give him about three more weeks and the colors will become obvious. Certainty rating: 95+ percent. Was the water stained at all that the fish came from?

and later

Agreed. I'd be way too nervous to put the #2 fish into an all male pond. It's gotta be closer to 100% than that one is. I actually think I can see a dark fleck or two on the nape.
Bruce (and Bill Cody):

I just retrieved my March/April 2006 issue of Pond Boss from two talented coworkers that both read and fish, and have been looking at the pictures of Ryan's #2 wrt the 7 rules of sexing BG. Other than seeing a hint of black tipped scales, can you eleborate why you sex #2 as Male with 95% certainty?

To my untrained eye, the opercule appears kind of an intermediate length and coloration does not approach the urogenital pore very closely (although when judged for both these traits, I think it looks "more male" than Ryan's #3).

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