Redear??

So this is what all the Redear look like in my lake. Never had any red on the lobe.

http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/q...psd1e654e3.jpg

Caught this 8" guy the other day. Seems to have some red on the lobe but weird Bull Bluegill like body shape. Hybrid maybe?

http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps19523310.jpg

Yeah top fish is a Redear

Ya I know top fish is.

Wondering about the fat bottom one.

Just what we call a bull bluegill

Here is a red ear Attachment 176239

Ya G that is same as my first pic, except ours dont have the red which I heard is common.

I have caught planty of big Bull Bluegill but they were dark and more typical BG color and markings.

This one was weird color and big eyes and a lil red on the lobe.

TY all.

Red ear and bluegill will mix when spawning. The bottom pic looks like a bluegill. Here is a pic of a cross between shell cracker and a bluegill. This occurs naturally. The local TWRA lakes at Williamsport have quite a few of these. A TWRA Fish Biologist confirmed this as a cross between the two.


Regards

The bottom fish looks like a typical bluegill to me. On the lake I fish bluegill vary a lot in color depending on time of year, but the red on the lobe does make it interesting.

Alphahawk that's one beautiful fish I would like to catch one of those. Was that one caught in the spring?

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The bottom fish looks like a typical bluegill to me. On the lake I fish bluegill vary a lot in color depending on time of year, but the red on the lobe does make it interesting.

Alphahawk that's one beautiful fish I would like to catch one of those. Was that one caught in the spring?

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Yes in early spring. Those TWRA lakes at Williamsport have quite a few of those in there. I would fish those lakes more but the road to the lakes is limestone and the dust is as fine as talcum powder. Gets all inside your vehicle.

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That bottom gill is a freak.... Looks like possum food to me. I hope you didn't release it. :twocents

MonteSS .... there is some orange coloration on the lobe of the fish in the first picture. That orange denotes a female Redear, according to biologists, with the red lobe coloration reserved for the males of the species.

As to the red on the lobe of the Bluegill in the second picture ... it could have been from some shenanigans in the family tree, or it could just be an anomaly.

... cp :kewl

The top picture is the same as the female Red Ears we get here in west Illinois. The females here have ear flaps ranging from orange to almost no color. The bottom one is also typical ,but of a bull bluegill.

Those redears are the best eatin....Yum Yum

The bottom fish looks exactly like a bluegill except for that small bit of coloring on the ear tab which indicates a small bit of another species being bred into it somewhere down the line.