Originally Posted By: Cecil Baird1
 Originally Posted By: catmandoo
All right -- I'll be the first to bite.

How can you tell that is a redear instead of a bluegill?


Because the article says it's a redear (shellcraker)and I've already seen the picture?

 Originally Posted By: catmandoo
Cecil -- why do you do things like this, especially at this time of night?


Not sure what you mean Ken?


There I was -- ready for bed. And Cecil, very matter-of-factly states it is a redear sunfish. There was no way from the photo that I could tell that fish from a bluegill, except for the writeup. I kept wondering what those taxidermy eyes saw that I didn't.




Let's not put that picture in the Common Pond Fish Primer (sunfish edition) archive.

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