bobad,

I'm going to try a slightly different approach next year. I have an extra pond to work with, so instead of taking several mating pairs for my F6 class, I'm going to have one pond with just the three best males and three best females, all age-2.

Both the males and females are currently just 16 months old and measure as follows.

Males,

9.375 inches
9.25 inches
9.125 inches

Females

8.5 inches
8.375 inches
8.375 inches.

As you can probably tell I am beginning to find that the ultimate top-line fish are males. The females are pretty amazing too, but the males seem to have a little edge.



Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.