The Georgia Giant is a hybrid cross (considered proprietary by the purveyor) between a strain of green sunfish females, crossed with a strain of bluegill males. They are used in ponds for fast growing game fish and will make it beyond a pound. In some areas of the nation, they'll grow larger, but for the most part, expect them to grow almost to a pound. They don't reproduce much.
Coppernose bluegill are a strain of bluegill native to the deep southeast, Florida, Georgia and Alabama, but stocked in waters all over the south and southwest. They grow large, some bigger than two pounds where they have good nutrition and population control (usually bass). They are considered the backbone of the food chain in bass lakes where they are stocked, since they reproduce heavily...as many as five times yearly in the south. So, coppernose are both a game fish and forage fish in their own rights.
