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*   yellow perch
*   walleye
*   smallmouth bass
*   largemouth bass
*   bluegill
*   channel catfish
*   pumpkinseed
*   wiper
*   whitebass
*   black crappie
*   carp
*   stocker rainbows
*   stocker cuttbows(?)
*   lake trout

Like TFB, the brookie is to be added maybe this weekend. I also need to get into some brown trout on rapalas, that sounds like real fun! Oh and a grayling, but that's way out of my league.

 

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A Sunfish/Crappie hybird mutant

-DK

DK, where'd you get that? I would love to challenge a taxidermist to replicate something weird like that!

 

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Mattsabasser

I'm thinking 75% that's a regular ol' green sunfish, but it's quite possible that's a hybrid bluegill with most of the green sunfish traits. Hybrid bluegills are generally a bluegill hybridized with some other sunfish, but in the fish farm industry, they're generally greensunfish/bluegill hybrids. Your's got a lil rounder of a body shape, but green sunfish colors. Plus the proportion of the mouth to the body is a lil small for a common green sunfish. Here are some comparisons:

Hybrid Bluegill
<img src="http://tinypic.com/5mzvd0" alt="Image hosted by TinyPic.com">

Green Sunfish
<img src="http://tinypic.com/5mzw9j" alt="Image hosted by TinyPic.com">

 

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TFB: This is a very good thread you started. Thanks. This panfish discussion is drifting a lil far, I know, mah bad.. "and I call myself a moderator?"..... So I might start a thread on that.

DK: Here's a wild guess.. Maybe a sacramento perch? I know they were stocked in Banner Lakes east of Hudson way back then because we've got a state record sacramento perch listed from there. That's still one of my blank checkboxes on my list of "fish I have caught".

Did it look anything like this?
<img src="http://tinypic.com/5n0hly" alt="Image hosted by TinyPic.com">

 

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DavidK...

Hmmm.. Interesting. Welps, it will be another unsolved mystery! But hey, check this.. If you caught one, you might catch more outta there. If ya go again.... Bring a camera.. And if ya got like a 20 to 50 gallon aquarium that needs something "cool.........."

You know the rest.

My elementary school mentality says I should go check out that pond that you're visiting. I used to have all kinds of thumbsized pumpkinseeds and green sunfishes in 10 and 20 gal tanks with "real pond" terrain and everything.