i caught it yesterday on a roostertail. I'm guessing it is one of the hybrid bluegill i added a year ago...but look at the head on this thing. It has a nearly flat front of head, with protruding eyes and strange mouth..
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks
.20 acre pond-that leaks/4-5' deep. Stocked 6/22/19 with 300 BG(supposed to be HBG, removed 100+/- so far), 100 RES, 3carp. On 8/20 added 300 HBG, + 21 5"HSB. 8/21 added 5 8" SMB, one 10" LMB , one 14" CC
Bottom line is that these HBG tend to have some abnormalities due to the mixed breeding. It's kinda weird to pull one from your own pond. I have not seen any odd lookinbg "next generations" however...just the originals.
I found the most deformed fish were from the initial stockers. Fingerlings that get a little damaged in shipment have minimal competition and predation under those circumstances, and many more make it to adulthood than they would in an established pond.
"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever." -S. M. Stirling
Seems like there was an old thread about Georgia Giants (hybrid BG of a parentage that was not disclosed) where some of the later generations of fish resembled those pictures.
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
Seems like there was an old thread about Georgia Giants (hybrid BG of a parentage that was not disclosed) where some of the later generations of fish resembled those pictures.
I was just about to post that ... looks like one of them GGs to me
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