I have no pictures as cell phone did not save them, sorry.
This fish was about 7" long, had the distinctive checkerboard pattern along its side of a Redear Sunfish (I stocked approx 100 1-3" fish in Oct 2007), but the slender body shape of Green Sunfish. Also, the fins near the tail had some white/yellow outline to them.
What struck me as odd was the size of the mouth on this short fish. You could fit almost both thumbs in its mouth.
It was cought on a 6" motor oil/chartruese plastic worm (full size bass hook).
Will GSF and RES cross breed ? Could this cross breed get this big in less than a year?
I dug the pond in Mar 2006 and it gets no runoff water, only well water.
My son-in-law caught this fish. He sent me a link to a picture of a warmouth that looked a lot like this fish.
The one he caught has blood red eyes, just like the picture. Could I have warmouths even though I did not stock any ?
Thanks, Darryl.
Last edited by archer; 09/23/08 10:37 AM.
