MY thoughts. Disclaimer: I have no personal experience with GG. I also would never disbelieve Bill Duggans word or experience.
I consider Holyoke as a master salesman who has given some questionable advice on stocking numbers. Actually, IMO, they have been more than questionable. When we toss in the Hogzilla story, we both question and understand a little more about the "Biologist/Salesman".
I consider it absolutely possible that he he experimented with different Lepomis crosses and found a good combination. However, there have been too many people who have not gotten the results that he advertised. Maybe he got sloppy or just rushed to the market with less than the original combination. Lots of mixed results tell me to let the buyer beware.
For the most part an F1 Lepomis will not have the spawning numbers of the parents. If we keep going, we find even more limited reproduction and they don't always breed true. It becomes a hit and miss deal. But, that has not kept him from selling them or whatever he claimed were the secret recipe.
Like Bill says, we may need to separate the man from the fish. I'm not sure how many people got the "real" GG's and how many got common HBG's or some other combination.
Last edited by Dave Davidson1; 08/04/09 06:15 AM.
