I guided a couple guys from St. Louis today. Here are pics of the two best:
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I guided a couple guys from St. Louis today. Here are pics of the two best:
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Nice couple of fatties :ThumbsUp
Best from today - 10.5":
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definately eating good. :cheers2
Nice fish...love catching gills and crackers. Here's two my buddy and I caught this morning on the St Johns near Debary. 12" and 11 1/2"
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nice fish! the second looks like a green sunfish or a hybrid
Bxn, the second fish of the ones I posted is indeed a hybrid bluegill (cross between a bluegill and a green sunfish).
HOW MUCH THEM PIGS WEIGH ?:scratchhead
I just bought a new scale last week. And it was working great Monday when I did a pond consultation in Alabama. But it rained in the morning on Tuesday, just a very light rain, and I forgot to take it out of my truck bed and put it in the cab...So when we caught the hybrid that afternoon I tried weighing it, and it was about a pound off. I need a waterproof digital scale but most fishing scales are inaccurate; Boga-grips are accurate but don't come in digital.
I would estimate the 11" northern-strain at a pound-and-a-half; the hybrid would've weighed two pounds or close to it. The 10.5" northern-strain would've gone between 20 and 24 ounces.
Do the hybrids tend to get bigger than the bluegills?Quote:
Originally Posted by tnpondmanager
So far, we have caught bigger hybrids than pure-strain northern bluegill - other than a pure-strain that the owner caught two summers ago that wasn't weighed or measured (or photographed - he didn't realize he had a camera on his cell phone), but which he says he measured with his hand at 14". But the pure-strain are reputed to live longer, and ultimately grow larger. I've only been working with these ponds for four years, so the top end of the pure-strains has not been realized yet.
Pure-strain coppernose bluegill outgrow the hybrids significantly - I have one pond that has several that are only two years old and already over a pound, and I've had them reach that size before in two years. A pond that would've been my best pond this year had dozens of 10"+ coppernose in April of 2012 that were only two years old, but then it had a fish kill in August and the fish that died were the big coppernose.