Good evening all,
I will be picking up my hybrid Bluegill tomorrow morning, so I went over to the pond to do one last "look around", and I noticed that there are hundreds of snails attached to the concrete wall that runs down one side of the pond. Naturally this has got me thinking about Redear, but I don't want to add any since I will be managing the hybrids to control any reproduction, and I certainly don't want any more female sunfish in there if I can help it. This leads to my question... has anyone crossed a male redear with a female green sunfish? Redear are usually bigger than bluegill, would this translate in the cross to create an even bigger hybrid? The male bg x female gsf yields mostly males, do you suppose this would hold true for the redear/ gsf cross? anybody have any info, or pics of these hybrids? The possibility of a 2-pound plus, limited reproducing, snail devouring sunfish has piqued my curiosity!
