One I caught yesterday that particularly shows the RES parentage. This likely was transferred as a fingerling either from my forage or sediment pond into my main pond where I caught it.
RESxGSF hybrid - same fish two pictures
First picture has face of fish shaded so it shows up the GSF'ish green cheek bars really well. Second picture I stood to shade the fish and the orange opercular tab shows up much better. Notice that it looks RES'ish but is not completely solid like a RES. But it is much more solid color than a GSF would exhibit with the solid part being on the end of the ear tab (RES'sih) and the whitish translucent portion wrapping around the tab (GSF'sih).
Just going by the pictures, a person might think it was two different fish. But it is only one fish (you can actually see it is laying in the same spot and position). Just goes to show how lighting and angle can change the perception. I often see things in a fish when I have it live that in pictures the feature can either look less or more pronounced.
