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BTW ...whats up with the bluegill with the orange cheek spots and orange tails and pectorals
and really bright orange breast plate ?
i only ketch that coloration in that lake ....
what say yawl on this fish ?:dono
on side note they cool coming up in circles in clear water ,,,,just saying :cheers2
Your bluegill has characteristics of both the northern subspecies and coppernose subspecies of bluegill. However, it doesn't look fully like either. It's my guess that it is a mix of the two subspecies which would explain the red tail, red breast, and red fins, but not the cheek marks.
Mighty pretty.
Bob
What a nice color combo!
Extra flavor showing through!
Not a clue, but it’s pretty!
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Nothing for sure but a bluegill cross with some redbreast somewhere in it’s history.
Interesting , never thought of a redbreast cross lineageQuote:
Originally Posted by skeetbum
I disagree. Regular northern strain bluegill have bright red breasts like that. Especially the males when they're spawning. Nothing in that fish says it has any redbreast ancestry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
I disagree also. Males coming off northern beds can be that hard red and off the same bed softer reds. Whether it is a strain or result of diet I do not know, but I have certainly seen male bluegills colored like that during the spawn here in Minnesota where we have neither coppernose nor shellcrackers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArthurLK11
It looks like a mix to me. TN does not have copper nose....but....someone decided to put some in Laurel Hill Lake. It is a 300 acre TWRA family fishing lake. The few copper nose that were released in the lake has turned it into a mixed mess. You catch very few true northern stain now. Most of what you catch is mixed. They can go wild in colors. I’ve caught blue.....purple....yellow....all sorts of colors.
Regards
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Attachment 384071 Here is a Coppernose with orange on it's head. I have not seen very many like this though.
Its a bit odd in that I never saw that particular coloration in there in the past and the last 2 visits we managed quite a few .Quote:
Originally Posted by Perris Blue
Quite a few have that really orange/red little breast plate on a pale body with red tails and pectorals
BTW what are them river bluegills I seem to remember that are on fire painted up ?
Some bluegill fanatics actually go there just to ketch them and bring them to their own state .
I think they come out of Florida or somewhere in the SE ,maybe Georgia ?
i researched it some and short of the black paint spots i bet these have some of that line in them . they frequently have that same fire patch on the chest and reddish fins and pale bodies . supposed to better than coppernose for stocking in some spots due their cold tolerance and will grow as fast and large.
commonly called "hand painted bluegills "