i caught a bluegill today. but it wasnt a normal bluegill. it was all blue! has anyone seen this before
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i caught a bluegill today. but it wasnt a normal bluegill. it was all blue! has anyone seen this before
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Did you catch any others out of the same water? If so, did they look different?
And no, I haven't caught any that look quite that blue. Interesting.
Looks like a Coppernose Bluegill
Interesting. Where did you catch it? And Welcome aboard.
I can honestly say that is the bluest bluegill I've seen.
It is interesting how many color hues they take on. Was this caught close to a nucular plant? Sorry, that is an often used joke around here. Mike
If I read it right a Coppernose Bluegill has 12 anal spines vs 11 on normal gill
my 2 penny's
I had a buddy who dumped some sort of chemical in his pond every year that turned the water a real deep blue. He said it was good for the pond and the fish. Anyway, the fish you would catch came out looking blue like they had been dyed.
i caught it in lake le homme dieu, in alexandria MN.Quote:
Originally Posted by IBNFSHN
and thanks
no the lake is not near a power plant but i do catch alot of carp with deformitys
PS there are no copper nose bluegills around here.
I never saw one that is as blue as that one, pretty fish though.
Bluegill
thanks guys. im gonna email the pic to the MN dnr maybe the can tell me if its a coppernose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluegill Bill
also i think it is a rare capture so i am considering getting it mounted even though it is pretty small.
I have to say that I have never seen a blue gill, that was blue.
here is my thinking on it... from time to time there is fish that come out blue for example if you google any blue walleye reports you will find that its not the old blue walleyes that are extinct but just some sort of either genetic mess up or some sort of color varient...i researched and found out that this happens also in yelow perch and crapppie but it is very rare.. her is an article i found on blue waleye that has a paragraph expalining how it happens kind of..Fish have bodies in their skins called chromatophores which carry pigments of different colors. These chromatophores expand and contract, much like the pupil in an eye, as the fish encounters backgrounds of different colors. This allows many species to change color in just 20-30 minutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_walleye
i catch a lot of purple ones out of a private pond
that was my first idea too. when i vaught it i thought about the blue walleyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by john h
Looks normal to me, I've caught them blue looking just like that from one coast to the other.
That's a very pretty blue colored fish!! Usually the Gills I catch have the blue color along their bottom jaw/throat region as well as the lower gill plate margin with the rest of the fish various shades of dark olive green on back blending to olive green, gray, copper, orange, purple, or brown on the sides. Usually males have an orange or red belly with females a yellow or yellowish gold belly with 5-9 vertical bars on the sides which fade with age and a dark round gill spot. Like Shellquacker made reference to, water with pigments or tannins staining the water can make for unusual and beautiful color variations in different fish species.
Oddly enough, the gills are not as blue as the ones I generally catch.
I see some color variation in the ones I catch, but I can honestly say I have never seen one where the whole fish was blue like that.
Oscar
Possibly a spawing bluegill? I know last month on Lake Vermilion, off my grandparents dock, we were catching all kinds of Gill's that were very bold colors ranging from orange to bluew to purple like that. They were spawning.
pretty...
Was the water real cold
Being in Minnesota explains it. It gets so cold even some of the snow turns blue. When it melts in the Spring, it dyes things blue. I'm quite sure that's what happened here.
catch em in lake holiday illinois all the timeQuote:
Originally Posted by jaked
i got a few the other day that were pink
I was in the campground at Disnet World the week of 11/7 and caught a couple gills in a cannal that looked just like that.
I had a couple like that too. Almost looked like it was albino or something...weirdQuote:
Originally Posted by stinkies daddy
Welcome from Alabama.
No I have never caught one that color. I have caught some that were suspicious and I threw them back. It turned out to be from chemical contamination in the pond wher the farmer had dumped some stuff and it leaked into the water.
Good call ship. I've seen that too. At a golf course drainage pond. All the chemicals they use on the grass drain into the pond. Caught some huge gills and bass up to 10lbs but the color was always strange to me. I would always throw everything back but some guys i know/ knew used to eat them. :( I'm not saying there's something wrong with the fish posted. Just telling my experience.
Interesting play on words there my friend. Hey Chaunc...If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck..........It probably is not a Bluegill. I guess I follow old school philosophy. If it don't look right, smell right, or feel right...throw it back and be safe.Quote:
Originally Posted by wrwest
EPA did make that fellow clean up the chemical spill and fined him $30,000.00 for illegally storing contaminates on his property. Evidently they were not properly sealed or stored according to regulations.
caught many of those just like that over the years in Alabama
I caught some of those several years ago in a private watershed. When I cut them open they smelled like raw sewage.
Makes me wonder if the surrounding houses were 'leaching' their sewage into the reservoir.
Still fun to catch.....and release!
According to a fellow called Zig from ***************** the blue color occures most often because the fish was under a rock or ledge or someother thing that caused it to stay out of the sun.
Fellow over there posted a picture of a fish same color and said he caught it in a river and saw it come out from under a rock and take his lure. Other fish he caught were a more normal color
take a look ***************** photo page