Shorty did they mean that a hybrid BG when looked at would look different if it was male vs. female ( I know 97% are male) or were they saying male BG x female GSF look different from female BG x male GSF. I know any particular HBG may look different from others because of the genetic line up of traits ( while 99 out of 100 may look the same the 100th may look different).
I was told by a biologist at the NE Game & Parks commision (Jeff Blosser) that you can get a different looking hybrid crosses between BG & GS depending on the sex of the parents. This is the information he got from the UNL fisheries professor who examined my fish, this professor spent several hours going thru books looking at picutres to properly ID this fish, counting the gill rakes is what positivley ID'ed it as a hybrid. I can tell you that the hybrid that I took in looked like a (male) pumkinseed, the givaway on the ID was that there was only a small portion red on the ear tab and a true pumkinseed has significantly more red on the ear tab. I was also told that this was the less common type of BG X GS hybrid that one normally sees. I did try and find the picture of that fish last night and I have no idea where I stashed it. If I do find it I will post it as this fish looks much different than other pictures of GS X BG hybrids that I have seen. As an intersting side note ewest, these hybrids in our pond occured naturally and spawned in gin clear water, the notion that you need dirty water to create a HBG might not hold to be true in some cases.
