Originally Posted By: snrub
Bump.

Anyone with RES/GSF hybrid experience?

Been a thread on BG/RES hybrids recently, but nothing that I know of on RES/GSF.

This was a former thread on the subject.
RESxGSF hybrids

I have a sediment pond that was stocked with 175 RES and 100 CNBG and apparently a hand full of GSF by contamination. Hoping to get some hybrids and especially hoping to get some RESxGSF natural hybrids. Hope I can identify them as such if it does happen. Already have got a few natural hybrids from this pond, but guessing they were CNBGxGSF.


Yes, I do have some experience. I have a few GRES hybrids caught every year in my main pond, but I suspect these may not true F1 GRES, rather an F2 or beyond and may consist of some BG genetics. Lepomis hybridization crossing/backcrossing makes reliable ID nearly impossible for me.

I've caught several GRES in the past which I believed were true F1s - cool fish. GRES vs. BRES vs. GBG should be fairly easy to identify provided they are true F1s.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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