I was reading a Texas A&M article about forage fish that Dr. Perca posted in another thread.
One section seemed relevant for this thread.
"Coppernose bluegill have been promoted by fish suppliers as a superior sport fish, and a study found that coppernose bluegill grew larger than east and west Texas bluegill when grown together in ponds. Laboratory tests have shown that the coppernose bluegill has the same cold tolerance as native Texas bluegill."Forage FishThe article was revised in 2008, so the information may have been supplanted by more recent studies - but no one has linked any directly on point recent studies in this thread.
