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Jim at FishinPals "If You Too Busy To Go Fishing, You're Just To Busy" 
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Sunil, I don't even own a camera but several of my friends have taken several pictures on their phones and cheap replacement cameras so I will try to round some of them up and email to you. thanks.
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Ken, it sure is cool that you have fliers in a pond. Maybe it's because we don't have them up here, but they are a cool fish.
Subscribe to Pond Boss MagazineFrom Bob Lusk: Dr. Dave Willis passed away January 13, 2014. He continues to be a key part of our Pond Boss family...and always will be.
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Flier - pic and data http://www.web1.cnre.vt.edu/efish/families/flier.htmlCrappie electrofished from Eagle's Nest by SDSU students. A bunch of 14 +.  
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Fliers get bigger then 5-7 in. in this area and the record is over 3 or 4 lbs. but couldn't verify it on the net. Ewest has probably seen some big ones. They are really cool, colored like a shiner and the body like a hybrid of croppie and BG. They love old mill ponds and I haven't caught one in 30 years till that pond flooded last year.
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Form Bob's Blog  Cool fish. I c aught it on a small spinnerbait similar to a Mepp's minnow. It's called a "Flier" sunfish.
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How long? That is about as big as I have seen if it 10 in. long.
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Dave W., yes they are cool. Do you have any bowfins, we have several, they are meaner and uglier then some of the women in Dave D. state.
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Like this - Greg with a BF 
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8 plus lbs. of a fighting machine.
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There's a picture (I think somewhere here) of one of them in spawning colors. Irridescent green fins.
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Ken, we have a few bowfin around in SD. They were really common when I was doing a study on small, pretty Minnesota lakes about 2 hours east of us.
Subscribe to Pond Boss MagazineFrom Bob Lusk: Dr. Dave Willis passed away January 13, 2014. He continues to be a key part of our Pond Boss family...and always will be.
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