the larger fish here often get really dark in some spots and in others they stay all tiger looking like the little fish in the image I posted , in some spots they get a purplish hue to them also .
the variance on coloration on them is often times quite different , my wife caught ones years ago that was huge and just almost solid gold with about zero markings on it .
pretty neat fish for sure , wish there were larger numbers of them here , but we don't see many in any one spot and if you ketch 2 in the same day that is pretty unusual here .
in my reading on them it says they are loners in the sunfish world for the most part .