My guess is mostly RES

Hard to tell with the light reflection if it has the mottled cheeks of a RES.

The smaller they are, the more the red/orange on the opercular tab looks like a dot rather than a band. This one seems to not have a well developed orange tab. On my very small RES coming out of my forage pond that I trap in minnow traps (1-2" long) almost need a magnifying glass to see the orange tab.

But Shorty has seen a lot more RES than I have, so he is probably right.

Last edited by snrub; 06/12/16 04:01 PM.

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