Cecil - I can't even drain/seine this pond, if I screw up I will have to pump it out and somehow collect the fish when the water is super low. Would be a disaster.
When Bruce told me he verified some female BG with black scale tipping my stomach dropped. I've used that as a verification characteristic for many years now...again, I'm just holding my breath on my BG ID. I'll know for sure by this Summer!
Cecil, what traits did you use as a guide? I use opercular tab size, coloration, and black scale tipping. Am I missing anything?
That's what I use but I also believe the sexually mature adults of the two sexes have a different body side profile and the female bar pattern is more intricate. According to the text I recently posted on the yellow perch sexing thread, post number 369564, one of the authors said the females have a swollen scaleless area around the urogenital area vs. scaled on the male. It said it was 100 percent. I haven't verified that yet but wonder if it wasn't referring to a spawning female.
Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 03/25/1409:58 AM.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
