A couple pretty ones from Sunday afternoon

Threw a rooster tail, beetle spin, and panfish assassin shad jig in my small pond Sunday afternoon. Caught 3 big gills including the ones below. The orange on the second one pictured was very cool. The picture doesn't do it justice really.

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that pond has some toads. I wonder what gives that last one that color on the edges. Something they put in the water?

Those are some pretty hybrids!

Is that normal color for a hybrid? Can't say I've seen one before.

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Originally Posted by slabbacks

Is that normal color for a hybrid? Can't say I've seen one before.

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I'm sure no expert but that appears to be a hybrid sunfish. The yellow at the fin tip are from the Green Sunfish side of the green sunfish/bluegill cross. Thy are hard fighters and fun to catch.

very pretty

Those are some good lookin fish! Make a good lookin mount if you caught a hawg

Your dog seems to like it. Do you have any more pictures of the orange one?

I don't have any more pictures unfortunately.

I wasn't really for sure which species of sunfish each were. I assumed hybrids because I stocked 3-4" hybrids, coppernose, and redear last spring and there were none already in there that I knew of and I assumed the hybrids only had the ability to get that big that fast. I had owned the small 1/3 acre pond they came from for 2 years prior to stocking those mentioned, and all I had been able to see/catch in there had been stunted 6-8" bass.

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Originally Posted by slabbacks

that pond has some toads. I wonder what gives that last one that color on the edges. Something they put in the water?

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Possibly. The pond is mine and other than occasional fish feed, the only chemical I have used on it has been maybe 1 treatment per year of algeacide. However, the majority of the water supply to the pond comes from underground and I believe a lot of that water comes from runoff from a local golf course about 1/4 mile away.

The top one is a Pumpkinseed - as for the Orange one, your guess is as good as mine.

Nice fish. Really like the color of the second one.

Both fish are hybrid bluegill, as Illinoisgiller noted. They're a cross between a male bluegill and a female green sunfish. The latter have orange-tipped fins, which is where the color on the second fish comes from.

Good looking gills

nice looking fish