id my friend's fish
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i'm actually far from being scared, i am literally laughing out loud at the suggestions you people are giving. honestly? tilapia? i have had a few years of experience keeping natives and this is a joke of a thread. the fish in question is undoubtedly a bluegill, so i have nothing to be scared of. if it helps you sleep at night to think that you are right, feel free to do so, but just remember when you come back to the real world that it is a bluegill.
have a nice night
have a nice night
le patron;2873804; said:i'm actually far from being scared, i am literally laughing out loud at the suggestions you people are giving. honestly? tilapia? i have had a few years of experience keeping natives and this is a joke of a thread. the fish in question is undoubtedly a bluegill, so i have nothing to be scared of. if it helps you sleep at night to think that you are right, feel free to do so, but just remember when you come back to the real world that it is a bluegill.
have a nice night
Yeah guys.. It is a blue gill for sure. Ive had many through out the years and this is what they looked like. Ive cought them in lakes where im at and there are no tilapia in it and a crappie def does not look like that while small.
LOL so someone owning a bluegill think he knows about gamefish better than someone who is a die hard fisherman...le patron;2873652; said:no, its not a little long. i'm pretty sure i can ID a bluegill better than you can seeing as i own one
so get your facts straight and this is for you
I've caught many bluegill and they are nothing close to that, a flash of camera will not have a high effect on a pure bluegill strain coloration. 80% of the bluegill out there have a round disc shape like body, juvenile or not...i've caught 3" blue with round disc body, most of the longer body like a bass are hybrid.
you still never answered my question, i requested for the owner of this thread to get a pic of the head...so I can identify it a little better. you still said its useless and not helpful and it's a waste. very nice for someone who is a know it all
If anyone is afraid to be wrong, it's not le patron. First off, for that to work, he'd have to be wrong in the first place. Saying that this juvenile bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus, is not a bluegill because it does not look like a large adult bluegill is ridiculous. Many fish grow up to look quite different that when they were young. You have to look at the details of its anatomy to correctly identify it.
Why is it NOT a crappie? Look at the mouth. Much too small for a crappie. Even at a young age, they have a much larger mouth relative to their body size. Also, where is the normal speckled pattern of the crappie?
Why is it not a tilapia? Well, besides some of the same reasons, like the mouth for the crappie, look at the dorsal spines. The bluegill appears to have 8 spines in the spinous dorsal. The tilapia has upwards of a dozen. Also, if this fish is an African cichlid species? Why does it have the "ear flap" which only exists among NA centrarchids?
I'm not trying to attack you guys, or your IDs, or try to make myself look good. I'm trying to help people out here by explain CORRECT identifications. It gets more annoying by the day seeing people throw out ridiculous incorrect IDs (especially when they shoot down the correct ID in the process). Look at the details, think about the ID, then maybe consider posting an ID if you have some good reasons that you think the ID is correct.
I'll gladly see why you believe your IDs are correct if you have some solid reasoning. Don't just tell me I'm wrong because you kind of think so.
Why is it NOT a crappie? Look at the mouth. Much too small for a crappie. Even at a young age, they have a much larger mouth relative to their body size. Also, where is the normal speckled pattern of the crappie?
Why is it not a tilapia? Well, besides some of the same reasons, like the mouth for the crappie, look at the dorsal spines. The bluegill appears to have 8 spines in the spinous dorsal. The tilapia has upwards of a dozen. Also, if this fish is an African cichlid species? Why does it have the "ear flap" which only exists among NA centrarchids?
I'm not trying to attack you guys, or your IDs, or try to make myself look good. I'm trying to help people out here by explain CORRECT identifications. It gets more annoying by the day seeing people throw out ridiculous incorrect IDs (especially when they shoot down the correct ID in the process). Look at the details, think about the ID, then maybe consider posting an ID if you have some good reasons that you think the ID is correct.
I'll gladly see why you believe your IDs are correct if you have some solid reasoning. Don't just tell me I'm wrong because you kind of think so.
