Checkout this bluegill!!

[JDS]

I went over to Eastern New York this weekend trying to catch what I consider a hybrid type of bluegill. I usually catch them in the springtime. I couldn't find any where I usually find them. So I tried another Lake real close that I new head them. In this Lake there are redbreast pumpkin seeds normal bluegill. Once I did see a dead northern long year but that is the only one I ever saw. My guess is they are cross between a redbreast of bluegill what do you think?

Shot with DSC-S60 at 2007-08-22

Shot with DSC-S60 at 2007-08-22

 

[Jen]

Don't know if it's a cross but it is a cool looking fish!

 

[sncboom]

I like it

 

[JDS]

You should see how red these fish get during the spawn.

 

[bangerang103]

I catch these all the time when i go to a nearby lake on LI NY!

 

[meepster]

looks like a pumpkinseed

 

[teleost]

looks like a pumpkinseed

Yup

Missing the dorsal spot you'd see in a bluegill, lacks the longear of a longear and redbreast and has too much cheek vermiculations for a redbreast to boot.

I'd say pumkinseed all that way.

 

[dogfish]

Wow thats a pretty fish

 

[cmj15]

that is a pumpkinseed all the way

 

[Chad55]

100% pumpkinseed no type of hybrid.

Chad