If you ever get ice cover on your pond you can forget about coppernose bluegills. Just like Florida bass they have trouble surviving in northern winters. They're both native to penninsular Florida so they are not adapted to cold winters. Occasionally even producers in the deep south loose fish during unusually cool winters.

If you are thinking of Gerogia Giants you might want to see previous posts on them and question if you want to put up with some of the tradeoffs of green sunfish X bluegill hybrids. Hybrids have there place and some love em. However you need to find out all the pros and cons. That's all I will say.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.